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You should start a Substack to combat all that misinformation. Facts are facts and people will recognize truth, right?
by chatterhead 4y ago
You should start a Substack to combat all that misinformation. Facts are facts and people will recognize truth, right?
- theGnuMe 4y agoIt takes an herculean amount of effort to counter misinformation. Deep state, conspiracy, Dr. Who is paid by Pfizer. Heads you lose; tails you lose. All of that crap. It's a losing game that keeps you on the defensive. You can cite facts and evidence but your up against memes essentially to reduce the sound bite to its essence. They will make shit up and have fake experts to support their positions and publish it in second tier places including substack. It drives clicks. Mainstream news orgs cite twitter of all places. All you can do is encourage critical thinking which means asking people to explain their positions and being genuinely curious about their answers.
- theGnuMe 4y agoI bet you could study this on hacker news of all places. Take posts on specific subject matter and have experts rate the comments. Then have a random set of people rate them. See what you get. I bet most of us are wrong in our opinions. There's that weird effect when you read a newspaper article about something you are expert in and notice everything they get wrong... then read the next article and take it all in verbatim. Not sure what the psychologists call it.. if it doesn't have a name it needs one.