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Podcast: Zoomer Week in Review
Episode: A World Of Misinformation & The Maple Syrup Harvest
Description: We live in a world of misinformation which is described as any information that turns out to be false. It infiltrates current events ranging from elections, the pandemic, the recent blockades and protests in Canada and now, the war in Ukraine. While it’s not a new phenomenon, gone are the days of getting all of our information from the newspaper. And experts who study this influence of people’s reasoning even after it’s been corrected call it the ‘continued influence effect’. Here to explain is Dr. Maddy Jalbert with The Centre for an Informed Public at the University of Washing...