Americans Are Too Worried About Political Misinformation

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A recent Knight/Gallup survey found that “Four in five Americans are concerned—either very (48%) or somewhat (33%)—that misinformation on social media will sway the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.” That’s an astonishing degree of agreement among the polarized U.S. public.

It’s likely the artifact of the outsized media and research attention that misinformation on social media has received since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But fears of misinformation swaying the 2020 election are overstated...

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