For those who are interested, video is now available of a short presentation I gave at a conference on “Truthiness in Digital Media” at Harvard’s Berkman Center in March:
[Cross-posted at Brendan-Nyhan.com]
Brendan Nyhan is an assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College.
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