How Misinformation Can Persist

Following the mass shooting in Texas, misinformation spread on a national level, with one man even being wrongly identified as the shooter on national TV. For Maxwell Assistant Professor Emily Thorson,  can stay even after corrected, as she explained to the New York Times.

“When you see a piece of misinformation, even when it’s in the context of being corrected and you believe the correction, it can still have lingering effects on your attitudes,” she said to the publication.