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Taking a long/high level view on this: When people are uncritical about that immediate reaction to share, repost, reblog, retweet anything that feeds into that
by iamdave 10y ago
Taking a long/high level view on this: When people are uncritical about that immediate reaction to share, repost, reblog, retweet anything that feeds into that dopamine high of "this coincides with my preconceived notions of n" regardless of how factual or accurate it is, how effective do we really expect Facebook-a site that actively encourages rabid sharing to be with something like this?
How effective will any tool, widget or service be at weeding out "fake news" when one can't counter a questionable news source in social media without being called "snowflake" or some other pointless pejorative for committing the cardinal sin of disagreeing?
Am I asking this the right way?
- dredmorbius 10y agoIt's absolutely valid to point out that the entire incentive structure, from advertising to outrage to virality to dopaminagenic, of the current state of online media, is antithetical to promotion of truth. Yes, the systems themselves, and their incentives, are at fault. And must be changed. For the sake of the Liberal Democratic Experiment (referencing liberalism, not the similarly named political party).