Truth Decay

Trust is eroding, in part, due to the over-abundance of opinion-based content; we must all develop better tools and habits for consuming information to regain a shared understanding of what is true.

RESOURCES
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RAND resources:

Truth Decay Is a Threat to Democracy. Here’s What You Can Do to Help Stop It | https://www.rand.org/blog/2022/03/truth-decay-is-a-threat-to-democracy-heres-what-you.html

RAND’s Analysis of News in the Digital Age: Three Takeaways | https://www.rand.org/blog/2019/05/rands-analysis-of-news-in-the-digital-age-three-takeaways.html

Why Can’t We Agree on the Facts? | https://www.rand.org/research/projects/truth-decay/why-cant-we-agree-on-the-facts.html

What Americans Think of the News—and What That Means for Democracy | https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2020/04/what-americans-think-of-the-news–and-what-that-means.html

Facts Versus Opinions | https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10059.html

The Drivers of Institutional Trust and Distrust | https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA112-7.html

Other Resources:
This Video Will Make You Angry by CGP Grey | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

Post-Truth by Veritasium | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvk2PQNcg8w

What We’re Missing in the Fight Against Misinformation by Dietram Scheufele | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pm37Fksr60

Why every social media site is a dumpster fire by Carlos Maza, Vox | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZSRxfHMr5s

Flat Earth “Science” — Wrong, but not Stupid by Sabine Hossenfelder | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8DQSM-b2cc

The Social Dilemma by Netflix | https://www.netflix.com/watch/81254224

The Science Behind How We Perceive Truth by Hilary McQuilkin and Meghna Chakrabarti | https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/02/25/science-behind-truth

Why Can’t we Agree on Facts? by This Place | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-Iwuq5VN4

Why do we believe things that aren’t true? by Philip Fernbach | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jobYTQTgeUE

There is No Algorithm for Truth by Tom Scott | The Royal Institution | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU

What to trust in a “post-truth” world by Alex Edmans | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpJx5VLQMxk

Social Media Manipulation Playlist by SmarterEveryDay | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHf9jaFs8XVAQpJLdNNyA8tzhXzhpZHu

The Illusion of Understanding by Phil Fernbach | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SlbsnaSNNM

I accept scientific consensus — and you prob should too by Adam Ragusea | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpdsbpCZVZw

Who’s Afraid of the Experts? by PhilosophyTube ft. Adam Conover | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRNkDZy30xU

I’m a Journalist Who Hates The News by Johnny Harris | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkUH2tP8PYw

Somebody once told me…. by vlogbrothers | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3pIEKE1Jqk

Respectability by Robert Miles | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNB9svNBGHM

Factfulness by Hans Rosling | https://smile.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814

Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman | https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=amusing+ourselves+to+death&qid=1594074228&sr=8-1

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt | https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777

You Are Not So Smart (Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself) by David McRaney | https://smile.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-So-Smart/dp/1592407366/

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