The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers

The problem of misinformation in the current age, argues
political scientist Samuel Bagg, is not that reliably
truth-producing institutions and practices don’t exist, but that
people have ceased to trust them. Changing that requires
something deeper than factchecking or media literacy. It’s a
matter of social identity, and solving it will mean reconfiguring
the social identity landscape. I talk with Bagg about that
daunting conclusion and its implications for democracy.


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