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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
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