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Misinformation spreads like a virus. Can public health strategies help stop that kind of contagion?

A third of the country wrongly believes former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election. Is there a way to inoculate people against misinformation?

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Dr. Seema Yasmin, director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and author of the new book “What the Fact: Finding the Truth in All the Noise

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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