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"...if each person believes that the crowd is wiser than he is (as would typically be correct) then they will only echo back what they think is the crowd consensus, leading to "groupthink&qu

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"Yesterday a story made the frontpage of Digg [...] As of right now the story has 2860 Diggs but the original submitter has also posted a retraction on Digg." It's all about the fact-checkin

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