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Bad Idea #26 “Facts will beat Misinformation” with Professor Sander vanderLinden
Can we inoculate society against misinformation?
In this episode of Saving the World from Bad Ideas, Mark Lynas sits down with Professor Sander Vanderlinden — social psychologist at the University of Cambridge and author of Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity — to take on Bad Idea #26: “Misinformation is just people being wrong on the internet.”
They explore how false and misleading information spreads, why even credible institutions sometimes get things wrong, and what we can do to build mental immunity.
From fake news to populism, pandemics to AI, this…
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