I suspect that this story will fall victim to the phenomenon where correcting a lie with the truth makes people believe the lie more.
A quote from that link: Maybe not. Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger. ... In an ideal world, citizens would be able to maintain constant vigilance, monitoring both the information they receive and the way their brains are processing it. But keeping atop the news takes time and effort. And relentless self-questioning, as centuries of philosophers have shown, can be exhausting. Our brains are designed to create cognitive shortcuts — inference, intuition, and so forth — to avoid precisely that sort of discomfort while coping with the rush of information we receive on a daily basis. Without those shortcuts, few things would ever get done. Unfortunately, with them, we’re easily suckered by political falsehoods.In the end, truth will out. Won’t it?
Wow thanks, that worked wonderously. Except for the fact that once I got there it failed to load, so I turned off uBlock and all the sudden my entire screen was filled with a giant goldfish, 5 popup ads, and then the goldfish turned into some guy called Carbanaro Sauce or something. I managed to reload with uBlock enabled and actually read the article, but damn is that a crazy amount of ads. How does anyone use the internet without an adblocker? Seriously, try loading that page without one, it's insane!