Positively Negative Shiri Melumad

Published: March 9, 2021, 4:37 p.m.

b"How much can you trust people's retelling of information the've read? In episode 95, Shiri Melumad discusses her research showing that when \\u2013 much like the children\\u2019s game \\u201ctelephone\\u201d \\u2013 news is repeatedly retold, it undergoes a stylistic transformation through which the original facts are increasingly replaced by opinions and interpretations, with a slant toward negativity."