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I think you're underestimating the intelligence of people. We like to think that we're much better than the average Joe at separating the wheat from the chaff,
by msravi 10y ago
I think you're underestimating the intelligence of people. We like to think that we're much better than the average Joe at separating the wheat from the chaff, but the truth is that the average Joe just isn't so bad at it either - or at least, isn't much worse than an editor sitting in his echo chamber.
If I look at my twitter feed now, for example, I have a bunch of tweets criticizing a new decision of the government to withdraw high-denomination currencies (I'm from India), and for every such tweet there are others that are calling out the fallacies of the argument put forth. And vice versa.
Gives me all the viewpoints I need to form an opinion.
- joakleaf 10y agoI don't underestimate our intelligence, but I think most of us have too little time to do the due diligence ourselves. I am not saying you should trust one traditional media source, but I hope that unfiltered social media never fully replace traditional media. For me Twitter is just hopelessly noisy compared to a well written and nuanced newspaper article that presents me with most of the facts, opinions, potential consequences, graphs, etc. involved with a topic. The sad thing is that most news in traditional media is not well-written, well-researched, or nuanced.