We Can Win the War on Misinformation — Here’s How
We Can Win the War on Misinformation — Here’s How
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We Can Win the War on Misinformation — Here’s How
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The biggest challenge with this is that those who will need to see the information will ignore it, or simply continue to disbelieve.
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Nope, the biggest challenge would be not getting co-opted by the alt-right just like every other fucking platform out there INCLUDING lemmy
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Ah I see you found shitjustworks
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You're exactly right. The effort proposed in the article overlooks the fact that people silo themselves into information bubbles via the media sources they choose, making the world today into a "choose your own reality" type of situation. The fox News or OAN viewer isn't going to suddenly look to other sources, and even social media sources provide an echo chamber to most. Eventually, the fantasy worldviews will bump up against cold, hard reality, but by then most of the damage will be done.
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You can't win the war on disinformation. You shouldn't even bother, because it is impossible.
(Community Notes: This is disinformation.)
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Is UDAID getting crowdsourced now?
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Look at the atheist vs creationist debates on YouTube. When it is a neutral playing field; (like it was in YouTube’s early days) truth wins. But in a shifted playing field where by appealing to people’s already existing (or easily radicalized) beliefs greater engagement occurs. (Like YouTube is doing now) The truth doesn’t stand a chance.
So our only chance is if we can make a level playing field and encourage everyone (including those who we are fighting against) and then let the truth win by virtue of being true.
And we have the problem that none of us is as cruel as all of us are.
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the vast majority of people will always accept a pretty lie over an ugly truth
I'd argue this is true temporarily.
A lie is like putting something on a credit card. It can make things look better in the short term, but the debt builds. Maybe you can get lucky and win the lottery (or get a pandemic to use as an excuse) and pay off the debt temporarily, but keep following the same strategy and the debt will build again. And when the debt grows larger than what you can repay, and people figure this out, they start to get pissed.
Maybe Trump can survive the current crisis in his popularity, but eventually he's going to be no more popular that Pol Pot is today.
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The only thing that keeps me safe is community and the fact that the community is able to bring sufficient firepower to keep bad actors away (for now at least) we only need to delay them long enough. The same applies to everyone; so build as large communities as possible and take care of everyone you can.
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By blocking VPN’s
/s - let me spell it out sarcasm!
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My word this reply is so stupid I'm blocking your entire instance
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It’s a joke! OMG
Related to the laws and responses of uk politicians on a horrible internet censorship bill
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For the second year in a row, the WEF Global Risks Report ranks both misinformation (false or inaccurate information) and disinformation (intentional misinformation) as the the **number one short-term risk to humanity— even above extreme weather events, cyber attacks, and armed conflict.
Well that’s an absolutely ridiculous degree of hyperbole. And I’m sure it’s linked to the push for intense censorship in the global west. This is just an attempt to manufacture consent for more crackdowns.
Capitalism is the greatest global threat. We already have plenty of information on what is destroying the planet, killing the most people, etc. We still can’t change these things even when we know about them, because capitalism has total control of all the levers of power. Not to mention the capitalists are funding actual disinformation campaigns.
What good is knowing the truth, if we’re forbidden from acting on it?
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...and if nobody is aware of this due to dis/misinformation...?
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