Limiting a literature review to 7 studies based on frequency of citation is pretty understandable, especially for a relatively young research topic. Of the 2 st

Limiting a literature review to 7 studies based on frequency of citation is pretty understandable, especially for a relatively young research topic. Of the 2 studies which showed a significant backfire effect, the findings of the first were considered "overstated and oversold" by its own authors and the second only found evidence of the effect in one of four situations. The second was also partially replicated in a later study which found no evidence of the backfire effect. That being said, the author of the review probably would not want you to be convinced by a single pop-sci piece covering her work. This "major breakthrough," as you describe it, does not in fact share space with any tweets or mentions of Instagram, but can be found here: https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/backfire_report_fullfact.pdf https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/backfire_report_fullfact....