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I listened to a discussion last winter about misinformation, rumors, and figuring out how to deal with them as a society. One of the people involved made a comm
by dendrite9 4y ago
I listened to a discussion last winter about misinformation, rumors, and figuring out how to deal with them as a society. One of the people involved made a comment along the lines of "when he thinks about the internet he remembers that the invention of the printing press was followed by 200 years of religious upheaval and wars."
That made an impression on me, it seems like such a hard problem to think about well. I've seen that moderation is something that is very difficult to scale beyond a relatively small group of both consumers and moderators.
- akolbe 4y agoHere is some public documentation of Wikipedia "Disinformation" projects, the first one specifically related to the election: Biden Campaign Disinformation Retrospective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biden_Campaign_Disinformation_Retrospective.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biden_Campaign_Disinforma... Disinformation at the Wikimedia Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Disinformation_at_the_Wikimedia_Foundation_-_en.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Disinformati... These are public, as was the fact that there were multiple "Disinformation" hires. However, the meetings between the Wikimedia Foundation and the DHS specifically (as opposed to government agencies generally) were not mentioned in public communications, to my knowledge.
- ls15 4y ago> These are public, as was the fact that there were multiple "Disinformation" hires. However, the meetings between the Wikimedia Foundation and the DHS specifically (as opposed to government agencies generally) were not mentioned in public communications, to my knowledge. Embezzling information is a form of disinformation too.