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    Fail Misinformation Researcher Caught Lying and Spreading Misinformation

    Here's one of the dishonest liar people who police and influence what you the general public thinks


    https://disinformationchronicle.subs...earcher-sander



    Sander van der Linden's webpage at Cambridge University says he is an esteemed academic, with prior positions at Princeton and Yale, and studies on social influence misinformation, and fake news that place him among the top 1% of all social researchers and the top 2% across all of science.

    Pretty much every major media outlet—the New York Times, BBC, CNN, The Economist, NPR, the Washington Post and NBC Nightly News—has interviewed van der Linden about his research, while his book “FOOLPROOF: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity” received wide praise.

    But a month back, he climbed down from his lofty academic perch and picked a fight on X with writer Nate Silver and … Professor van der Linden got crushed: exposed as a liar and a quack who spreads misinformation while editing his personal Wikipedia page for the last decade through various single purpose accounts (SPAs) or sock puppets, to burnish his credentials and promote himself and his research.


    Examined in detail, the van der Linden episode highlights growing evidence that “misinformation research” is just politics dressed up in academic garb to suppress and censor dissent on controversial topics.


    “This guy is a complete fraud / pathological liar. He’s been repeatedly banned from Wikipedia over the last 10+ years for using an army of sockpuppets to create articles about himself with self-promotional material.”

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    And yet that article itself posts jpegs, not the original x-feed. interesting

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    Quote Originally Posted by lost in melb. View Post
    And yet that article itself posts jpegs, not the original x-feed. interesting
    yeah you didnt know people can delete their tweets?

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