Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to disagree better

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Entering the new year, Americans are as divided as ever. It’s common to blame people who are intentionally distributing false information for these divisions. Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa says Facebook’s “[bias] against facts” threatens democracy. Others lament losing the “shared sense of reality” and “common baseline of fact” thought to be a prerequisite for democracy.

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