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> If you don't trust your fellow citizens to be able to deduce the truth... Do you trust people who live in an echo chamber overrun with disinformation to dedu

• offby37years 6y ago
  With almost every technological advance, destructive power arrives long before the protective powers. It's much easier to destroy something with a nuclear weapon than it is to build a nuclear power plant. Likewise, we arrived at muskets before the combustion engine. Disinformation is much cheaper (and profitable for media companies surviving on outrage driven clicks) than delivering self-verifiable empirical information. This will change in time.