I think this an extremely important topic. But I don't think it's so much THAT users are corrected, as it is HOW users are corrected. > To conduct the experime

I think this an extremely important topic. But I don't think it's so much THAT users are corrected, as it is HOW users are corrected. > To conduct the experiment, the researchers first identified 2,000 Twitter users, with a mix of political persuasions, who had tweeted out any one of 11 frequently repeated false news articles. All of those articles had been debunked by the website Snopes.com. And here lies the issue. We don't "correct" the issue with a discussion out of genuine curiosity, we "correct" the issue by making an appeal to authority. Like the XKCD #386 comic, we're an obsessive dog licking at it's wounds -- we can't go to sleep. Someone is wrong. I haven't encountered a single "Flat Earther". I have encountered one genuinely "anti-vaxer". But the way the discussion goes on the internet, I'd expect they're behind every tree. When people rush over with a link on "Snopes", and then smugly sit back thinking, "Checkmate" -- it worsens the issue. The reason it makes matters worse is because we're acting like Dwight Schrute: "False. CNN has not purchased an industrial washing machine to put a spin on stories. News stories cannot be placed inside a washing machine."