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LOL. Even virtual me is depressing people.

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1 Dec
Not true - great respect for @archimedino, @sekreps & Kriner but danger of another backfire panic (I would know!)

Paper: dinopc.org/papers/goingtw…

See my annotation - marginal fx of corrections were null for Rs vs control (solid red) & vs seeing unlabeled tweet (dashed red line)
@JasonReifler & I found backfire effects in 2 of 5 exps in early study fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/artic… Wrongly interpreted to mean backfire common

Further research finds backfire is rare rdcu.be/bhWnf link.springer.com/article/10.100… However still shaping debate/policy eg tweet below
We published an article finding no backfire rdcu.be/bhWnf, I wrote an Upshot column and did an NPR interview on it, and we/I wrote 2 lit reviews em.rdcu.be/wf/click?upn=K… aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… (excerpts below) but no sign of going away. Ironically v. hard to correct!
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1 Dec
The president's former chief strategist and a lawyer for his campaign. What would you say if you saw it in another country?
Meanwhile, the president's former campaign lawyer (or whatever that was) is calling for the suspension of democracy
Meanwhile, one of the president's closest media allies is calling for some sort of extra-legal action to overturn the results of the election mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/lou-…
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22 Nov
This Ted Cruz tweet is an example of what I warned about on @ReliableSources with @brianstelter: the dangerous consequences of turning public health into identity politics. More than 10,000 Americans died last week alone; will only get worse if this politicization continues.
More from the own-the-libs industrial complex. So dangerous. The virus doesn't care who you are owning.
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21 Nov
Profiles in cowardice. Congressional Republicans continue to bend the knee while our election system is under attack. nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/…
And yet they bend the knee.
"an unprecedented challenge to the election outcome like nothing since the Civil War." And yet Congressional Rs bend the knee. apnews.com/article/electi…
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20 Nov
Cult of personality watch
also this
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19 Nov
The post-election democratic erosion I warned about (npr.org/2020/11/15/935…) will only worsen if the President's campaign against the legitimacy of the election continues. Ignoring it won't make it go away.
This is what democratic erosion looks like
This is what democratic erosion looks like
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