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Doctor Mike

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And when you look at the shares of the URLs, of the written fact checks, one of the things that's very interesting, so not only do we gather where do the shares go, so we can see again the types of groups, public groups only, that the shares wind up in,

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

when they wind up in the anti-vaccine public groups or the QAnon public groups, they're being hate shared, right?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

The comments under them are mostly like, okay guys, someone needs to go over to this page and like flood the comments with the truth.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

So it's not like there's a whole lot of receptivity to the information.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Yeah.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

So there's there, it's not really,

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Yeah.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

So there's so much that you can get from even these small case studies when you just look at, does it land in the same places?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Honestly, no, it doesn't.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Because the other thing is like the fact check isn't making its way back into the same corgi club.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

The Corgi Club was captivated by the 30-minute cinematography of the rumor or false claim or whatever, not by the thousand-word response.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And so you have a real challenge of...

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

um just the the structure of like where does the information wind up becomes something that is a very persistent issue of um the format of the correction is usually uncompelling there's a huge time delay people have moved on to something else they're not going to see the correction and then the correction is going to be very boring so even when the cdc does come out with something unfortunately a lot of the time

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And this was something that Facebook would occasionally say, like in communication, because they occasionally consult with academics, like people like, you know, SIO and others.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

What should our policy be?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

What should we be doing?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

You know, we talk to them.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

They solicit opinions from a lot of people.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And during these questions about how do you counter this kind of, you know, anti-vaccine content?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

I was always a big proponent of like, you can't you can't take it down.