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When everything is evidence, discourse can get a bit stupid
In case you didn’t hear, smoke was bad in NYC a couple of weeks ago. A thick blanket of the stuff, the result of distant wildfires, cloaked the city. The AQI was over 400 in places, which to health departments is “please don’t go outside” weather, “wear...

There are two primary accounts of the relation between evidence and belief in misinformation research, and neither is adequate.
The first mode is naive. The idea here is you see misinformation and it shifts your belief. I see that Hillary Clinton is supposedly implicated in a murder on lizardpeople.com and, well, now I’m definitely not going to vote for Hillary Clinton. A more...

With that as your narrative, what evidence can you bring to bear? Repeatedly since at least 2020, the “riot bricks” trope has been popular. The idea, of course, is some secret conspiracy is making sure bricks are ready-to-hand for some riot that will...

Polling locations are, by necessity, formed out of locations that do other things the rest of the year. Schools, churches, community centers, and the like. They sometimes have cameras installed.
Because voting is private, there are restrictions on filming in polling places. This applies not only to ballot selfies, but to video surveillance. In addition to potential violations of privacy, the use of surveillance cameras filming voters can also...