>No, the more insidious goal is to flood the zone with enough dis- and misinformation to overload our ability to filter it. It’s like gaslighting at scale- at s

>No, the more insidious goal is to flood the zone with enough dis- and misinformation to overload our ability to filter it. It’s like gaslighting at scale- at some point you just stop being able to process information because it’s so voluminous and of dubious quality that you stop believing any of it. This isn't new by any stretch of the imagination. It might as well outright be the job of the Fourth Estate ever since the Fourth Estate has existed (funded, as always, by ads). And when you look at the people complaining about this, which is for the most part people part of said political group (Facebook/Twitter/non-tech journalists), it makes sense that anything that could diminish their ability to control the narrative should be presented to the public as a new and novel threat. So this isn't going to result in widespread social chaos, because it's already happening. If anything, this technology will democratize what the old media is currently doing; which will likely result in driving political power towards crowdsourced content aggregation instead of the individual content creators themselves.