When do fact-checks work? And when do they backfire and cause someone to dig in? Yamil Velez), a political scientist at Columbia University, set up an experiment using chatbots and found that people *can *change their mind, even on deeply held beliefs. Except under one condition: when the chatbot is rude.
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