The Top Misinformation of 2023

2023 leaves many unanswered questions. However, it’s not always as simple as real versus fake or true versus false.
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Why University Presidents Find it Hard to Punish Advocating Genocide − College Free Speech Codes are Both more and Less Protective Than the First Amendment

Campus codes at private colleges and universities seek to resolve the conflict between the right to speak freely and the educational mission of the institution. The ham-handed and over-legalistic responses by the three university presidents show how this attempt to balance speech and safety can create confusion, conflict and the opportunity for selective enforcement decisions based on academic fashion, not values of free and open debate.
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When George W. Bush Is the Most Important Man in the World Again

Bush’s compassionate conservatism and interventionist globalism represent a vastly dissimilar brand of Republican orthodoxy than Trump’s immigrant-bashing and isolationism. It’s likely Bush still believes that growing threats from Russia, China and Iran can best be confronted with his and his father’s multilateral philosophy than by Trump’s erratic and ally-unnerving behavior.
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Media Bias Alert: Media Across Spectrum Show Negativity Bias Toward U.S. Test Scores

Statistics released this week showed students across the developed world struggling with math, including American students, who achieved an all-time low average score. Many mainstream media outlets across the spectrum covered the story, but showed negativity bias in the framing of how U.S. students performed.
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