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Medienwoche: How to debunk myths and fake news

Myths about science and fake news spread quickly and are hard to counter once they resonated with people. Debunking false information has ben proven to be quite hard and doing so unsucessfully can even enhance their effect. Why people are susceptible to such information and to debunk them effectively is something IKMZ scholar Sabrina Kessler discusses in a recent article in Medienwoche.

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