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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 14:28:34 JST Eaton

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   • Kate Starbird

   @katestarbird this was a hard-learned lesson growing up in a fundamentalist religioous group during the satanic panic. Individual facts are no match for frames, particularly conspiratorial and self-reinforcing ones with a narrative that can turn both pro and con information into “evidence” of the frame’s unique trustworthiness

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     Kate Starbird (katestarbird@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 14:28:35 JST Kate Starbird

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     We often see the problem of misinformation described as an issue of bad “facts” — but our research suggests the problem is not just one of bad facts, but faulty frames. Though fabrications and outright lies contribute to the challenge of misinformation, we are more often misled not by false evidence but by misinterpretations and mischaracterizations.

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     Kate Starbird (katestarbird@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 14:28:36 JST Kate Starbird

     Discourse around misinformation doesn't always line up w/ our research team's findings re: how falsehoods actually spread in online spaces. Here, I provide a more nuanced view, describing the problem of misinformation as one of collective sensemaking gone awry: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird/