It's possible that Thompson means "information" in the more technical, information-theoretic sense, which we might qualify as "useful information" - signal as o

It's possible that Thompson means "information" in the more technical, information-theoretic sense, which we might qualify as "useful information" - signal as opposed to noise or "misinformation." In this sense I tend to agree with what he's saying: more information is probably better. Indeed, I find it hard to believe that he really feels he's making an original point here - it seems almost axiomatic. Nevertheless I think you're making a solid point: information overload can be pretty harmful. I think that's what Thompson is getting at with his comment "the solution to misinformation is improving our ability to tell the difference" but honestly that's not a solution so much as it is a goal - granting that it's desirable for people to have this filtering capacity, how can it be learned?