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How do you tell if it's increasing Information corruption or reducing Information asymmetry? Nobody has an objectitive view. Glassdoor isn't going to come out a
by hux_ 9y ago
How do you tell if it's increasing Information corruption or reducing Information asymmetry? Nobody has an objectitive view. Glassdoor isn't going to come out and say they are producing negative population scale effects, just like Facebook didn't.
Once upon a time when Wikileaks/Arab Spring was unfolding everyone thought reducing information asymmetry would be net positive. But here we are with a 24*7 fake news culture in the "information age", and Snowden sitting in Russia of all places.
- emodendroket 9y agoI don't think "fake news" is actually a uniquely modern issue.
- Clubber 9y agoIt's not. It's the norm. It was once called "Yellow Journalism." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism Reading the opening paragraph, to me it describes just about any news source today: Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a US term for a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.[1] Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering or sensationalism.
- hux_ 9y agoYa but what nobody gets is simplicity and scale has changed. Some guy with too much time on his hands on twitter or YouTube or FB can unintentionally (cause it's all chaotic) topple a govt or force change policy change.
- mschuster91 9y ago> and Snowden sitting in Russia of all places. The US cancelled his passport while he was in transit there. If they had any will to have him go somewhere else and not to the Russians with who-knows-what data they could simply have reversed that action and let Snowden go on to Ecuador or wherever.
- hux_ 9y agoMy point is look at the outcomes - for him and for surveillance policy in general. He though he was reducing information asymmetry (which I was addressing in the comment abv).