Show Notes
A headline can be completely factually accurate and still leave you with a profoundly misleading impression of what actually happened. Through framing, omitted context, percentages, carefully selected comparisons, and emotionally loaded language, a few truthful words can construct a story that the underlying facts don’t necessarily support. This episode of The Reality Gap explores one of the strangest features of modern information: nobody has to lie to you for you to walk away believing something that isn’t quite true.
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