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Useless but brutally honest truths aren't something we have abundance of in our society. We are, however, drowning in possibly-actionable nuggets of data that
by MrZongle2 10y ago
Useless but brutally honest truths aren't something we have abundance of in our society.
We are, however, drowning in possibly-actionable nuggets of data that range from the somewhat-truthy to the probably-bullshit area of the honesty spectrum.
That people fabricate -- and worse, repeat without fact-checking -- such information contributes to the problem I refer to.
- Chris2048 10y agoThe principle of "fact-checking" has a fatal flaw - it gives power to those who have time and resources to fact-check, and even more to those that can control the availability of facts. Consider information regarding the Iraq war before wiki-leaks - only facts beneficial to the image of the US military were released.