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The Fake News Problem
- peter_d_sherman 7y agoExcerpt: "Dealing with fake news will need to involve more than simply adding a piece of code in today’s tech, and could require a lot of societal transformation. The fear of giving everyone a voice It is not the first-time disinformation is threatening civilizations. Christianity faced the same crisis when the Bible was translated from Latin to other languages which any person could read and understand. The church had resisted the move in the fear that giving everybody a Bible would result in skewed interpretations and rise of cults that would crop up everywhere. That is exactly what happened. [Side thoughts: Is the Tower Of Babel - A Metaphor For This?] Today, cults after cult seem to spread all over the world with the educated being equally prone to the disinformation as the non-educated. It is like half of Christianity today is fake news." Disclaimer: I'm not saying I agree with this assessment, nor disagree, but you have to admit: Fake News Vs. The Crisis In Early Christianity: That is one heck of a philosophical comparison, is it not? ?
- iafrikan 7y agoTrue, it all depends on your perspective