Propaganda and Information

The fact that we live in an age of information should allow us to make super-informed, data-driven decisions all the time.

But the widespread availability of information does not mean that we actually use it even if we have it: decades of research in psychology and behavio...

• Journalists rely on a ton of different thinking tools which allow them to write compelling stories that report the news fairly and accurately.
• One of these thinking tools is fact-checking

Misunderstanding how much information we actually use to make our judgments has important implications beyond making good or bad decisions.

An example could be our tendency to rely on stereotypes when judging other people: we may believe we'll consider information from all the ang...