Truthiness in the Internet Era–Or, How Do We Stop Playing Whack-a-Mole With Online Idiocy?

[image error]I'm here at the Harvard Law School today for this conference–where I'll be presenting with Brendan Nyhan on biased, motivated reasoning, and how we can short circuit it.

Then, very smart people will try to figure out what we can possibly do to, like, re-engineer cyberspace so that it is somewhat less conducive to letting human biases run amok.

It is not, let us admit, such an easy problem. I mean, Wikipedia is generally a den of truth (rather than truthiness), but those who can't face reality c...