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I suspect this will be minorly used for direct misinformation control("Donald Rumsfeld is not a lizard person"), but mostly used for narrative control("While th
by oh_sigh 6y ago
I suspect this will be minorly used for direct misinformation control("Donald Rumsfeld is not a lizard person"), but mostly used for narrative control("While this fact is true by itself, you need to look at the bigger context..."), and so will be entirely ineffective. People readily take up new information, but are very hesitant to change their internal narrative on a matter. Especially when they're being told by others what their narrative should be. Double especially if part of their narrative is that big tech/liberals/academia/coastal elites/etc are trying to feed you the Big Lie.
Conservative misinformation is a big talking point for liberals, and maybe the big societal issue at the moment, but as a small scale test run, I'd love to see birdwatch try to correct the record for misinformation that is commonly believed in liberal circles: Anti-GMO, anti-vaxx, toxic whiteness, the extents of systemic racism in our society, some of the more dire prognostications of nuclear war and global warming.