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Even though I do think disinformation is a real problem in the world, I think you need to take disinformation research with a grain of salt because my impressio
by InfiniteRand 5y ago
Even though I do think disinformation is a real problem in the world, I think you need to take disinformation research with a grain of salt because my impression is that disinformation specialists regularly employ disinformation to inflate their own importance
- ComodoHacker 5y agoWhy would they draw attention to their successful business?
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- z3c0 5y agoI can't tell if you're just being humorous, or if you actually believe that the Mozilla Foundation deserves speculation here. If it's the latter, I'd like to know more.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI'm going to go out on a limb and say any organization that dedicates resources to fighting "misinformation", in this current political climate, definitely deserves some skepticism and speculation. Are there plenty of falsehoods swirling around online? Absolutely. But keep in mind that "misinformation/disinformation" is increasingly being used in a partisan fashion. Sometimes rightfully so, sometimes as a rhetorical trick.
- soco 5y agoGetting into fatalism or relativism is not doing anybody service. If one sees something wrong, they should take a stance, even while knowing that not all that glitters is gold.
- myfavoritedog 5y agoJust look at so-called "fact checkers" these days. What started off as a useful service to the Internet and society has grown in importance and been warped into a political weapon that is used to promote propaganda. The fact that you're downvoted is just more evidence that we're nowhere near people waking up to the danger of the problem of mindlessly delegating their thinking and research obligations to entities that have been captured by politics.