The debunking trap: when the correction becomes the distribution
Before You Answer a Fake
A pro-Russian operation spent two years asking newsrooms and fact-checkers to verify its fakes, and hundreds of debunks followed. This brief asks what a correction repairs and what it spreads, and when answering a fabrication about a principal serves the attacker's timing more than the principal's interest. Built from four published assessments of the operation, read in time order, and the research on corrections. Companion to CB-272, for principals and communications leads.
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