The Garden of Forking Paths

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A interactive community and college-level course about disinformation, its impact on democracy, and how we can make America's social fabric more resilient to this new threat.

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1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

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