It won't work because people want to read stories that confirm their biases. I haven't had a lot of disagreements with liberals, but I've had a fair number of

It won't work because people want to read stories that confirm their biases. I haven't had a lot of disagreements with liberals, but I've had a fair number of discussions with republicans/conservatives who discount anything that opposes their worldview no matter how grounded in facts or science it is, and accept anything that reinforces it regardless of how unreliable or artificial the source is. In fact, studies have shown that being shown facts that contradict our biases reinforces our biases rather than weaken them[1]. So bots that tweet facts that contradict the fake news people want to believe makes things worse and helps no one. It feels as though the only way to help someone overcome those biases is to prevent them from experiencing reinforcing information and to expose them to situations that contradict them. [1] http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/ http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07...