- (2024, free) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4860527
- (2021, pay walled) https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/54/4/54/119024/Killing-Politics-SoftlyUnconvincing-Propaganda-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext
I don’t have a background in science, I learned of the 2021 study as a footnote in a book I’m reading.
I’m curious to see what more attention this will get over the coming years.
Interesting explanation. Democracy can’t really work unless people have a trusted source of truth and those seem hard to come by these days with the struggles of for-profit news orgs (mostly owned by the same few giant media conglomerates). Would make sense that an effective angle of propaganda is to exacerbate that in any way possible.