Democracies are vulnerable to misinformation. Prevailing interventions emphasize truth detection. L. Geay, @carocharp.bsky.social and I argue we ought to strengthen people’s ability to estimate claims plausibility and to calibrate their confidence under uncertainty.
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Prevailing interventions against misinformation emphasize truth detection, but offer no panacea. Research into decision-making suggests that strengthening people’s ability to estimate the plausibility...