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Distorted, mistaken, or outright false information is as common as oxygen in our modern, interconnected communication ecosystem.

It should be no surprise, then, that we inhale so much of it.

This is true no matter who you are, what your level of education or social status, how intelligent you seem to be, or how deep your knowledge-reserves. Misinformation experts succumb to misinformation, and in-the-know people do ignorant things under the influence of seeming facts that, upon closer inspection, ...