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The Dissenter · 2025-07-25 · 70 min · 10,911 words

#1128 Daniel Silverman: Why People Believe Misinformation in War

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Daniel Silverman. He is an assistant professor of political science in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. And today we're talking about his book, Seeing Is Disbelieving.

why people believe misinformation in war and when they know better. So Dr. Silverman, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Thank you so much.

Great to be here and it's it's a really a unique and and fascinating series that you you do here. So thank you. So let me start by asking you perhaps just to give a little bit of background to the interview. What is misinformation and how do you sort fact from misinformation? Yeah, absolutely.

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