1. Australians care if politicians tell lies, but people in the US don’t

Stephan Lewandowsky and others undertook a study which found the people in Australia cared if politicians told the truth, and were likely to take notice of fact checks. When they did the same study in the US they found the effect was 10 times less.

They speculate that this is because politics is much more polarised in the US. Continue reading Weekly salon 6/1 →