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Scapegoating the Algorithm—Asterisk

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America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media.

Scapegoating the Algorithm—Asterisk America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media. Many people sense that the United States is undergoing an epistemic crisis , a breakdown in the country’s collective capacity to agree on basic facts, distinguish truth from falsehood, and adhere to norms of rational debate. This crisis encompasses many things: rampant political lies; misinformation; and conspiracy theories; widespread beliefs in demonstrable falsehoods (“ misperceptions ”); intense polarization in preferred information sources ; and collapsing trust in institutions meant to uphold

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