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NYHAN: "It's worrisome if fake news websites further weaken the norm against false and misleading information in our politics, which unfortunately has eroded. But it's also important to put the content provided by fake news websites in perspective. People got vastly more misinformation from Donald
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NBC NEWS: "It feels like there's a connection between having an active portion of a party that's prone to seeking false stories and conspiracies and a president who has famously spread conspiracies and false claims. In many ways, demographically and ideologically, the president fits the profile of
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is hardly averse to criticizing liberal verities" ... but "there were a few posts in succession that struck us as either inaccurate or an effort to draw equivalencies where none existed." Tomasky said that Nyhan had made unfounded allegations for reasons of self-promotion, saying:
374:. A 2018 study by Nyhan, Andrew Guess, and Jason Reifler studied "Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign". After publication, Nyhan was interviewed by 306:, cherry pick information that they find helpful, regardless of how representative it is of the overall truth, and then package it with a forceful and persistent presentation that eventually takes on the patina of reality." 140: 367:
Nyhan's research as a political scientist has focused on the dynamics of scandals, misinformation, persuasion (in the face of misperception), social networks, and statistical methodology.
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in 2004 along with Fritz and Keefer. According to reviewer John Moe the book "detail how Bush and company, more than any administration in
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In 2003 he received an "Award of Distinction" from the "Center on Media and Public Affairs", a conservative media watchdog, for debunking
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In the Fall of 2011, upon completion of his term as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Nyhan joined the faculty of
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targets." Rosenfeld denied that this was the case. Nyhan, due to his background writing about such topics, (e.g.
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pundits. According to Nyhan, "Sam Rosenfeld, the magazine's online editor, asked that I focus my blogging on
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The periodical was launched in May 1997 and their goal was to provide a forum for the diversity of
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Nyhan was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the
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has always opposed a 'pox on both houses' posture, and that's what we came to believe doing."
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However, after a few essays/posts he aroused complaint from the editors for his criticism of
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Nyhan has also written for other political and news publications which are on-line such as
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In 2018 Nyhan joined the University of Michigan as Professor of Public Policy in the
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non-fiction paperback bestseller list as #14 in the September 5th edition.
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in 2000. He graduated with high honors. In May 2009 Nyhan was awarded a
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From 2001 to 2004, Nyhan (with Ben Fritz and Bryan Keefer) co-edited
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All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth,
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Guess, Andrew; Nyhan, Brendan; Reifler, Jason (January 9, 2018).
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All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth
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All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth
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was active the authors logged over four hundred articles.
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Trump than they did from fake news websites -- full stop."
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From 2001 to 2003, Nyhan managed new projects and then
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to the 2006–2007 Program for Advanced Research in the
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In late 2006 Nyhan was again tapped to write about "
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L-Word: Swarthmore's Journal of Progressive Thought.
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as one of the ten best political books of the year.
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Mountain View, California
Mountain View High School
Swarthmore College
Duke University
PhD
Writer
political scientist
Dartmouth College
www.brendan-nyhan.com
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Dartmouth College
liberal
moderate
blogger
Mountain View, California
Hanover, New Hampshire
Mountain View High School
Swarthmore College
political science
Ph.D.
Duke University
liberal
college
Deputy Communications Director
US Senate
Nevada
marketing
fundraising
Benetech

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