false knowledge

“The sad thing is that people are getting false knowledge.”

As they wrote in The Post, to persuade a “misinformed voter . . . to reject false knowledge, change policy views, disagree with friends, agree with former enemies, and perhaps abandon leaders or even a political party, requires an enormous amount of effort and resources.”

Much of it is motivated, willful, often bolstered by false knowledge, and anchored by prejudice, privilege and ideology.

Confronted by false knowledge, such as that vaccines cause autism, they aren’t equipped to evaluate the claim and are easily led astray.

Why did the South of our youth imbue us with such false knowledge?