Theory: Every article that flatly asserts fact-checking is useless is 2 links away from the 2010 study on the backfire effect that has since been found to be *extremely rare*.
Interesting piece from political scientists about entrenched values overwriting factual evaluations. This must raise a question about the amount of money going into fact checking
Fact-checking can’t do much when people’s ‘dueling facts’ are driven by values instead of knowledge, by David Barker (@barkerccps) and Morgan Marietta / @NiemanLab