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Who decides what's disinformation?
by thatsagreatcomm 4y ago
Who decides what's disinformation?
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoThis narrative has killed many republicans who feared getting vaccinated, and it will only kill more. One could argue that it is their own actions, but I am not keen on blaming people for their circumstances. The answer is we decide what is disinformation through our institutions and the value we place on them. Your and I's opinion on certain matters should never weigh remotely as much as an expert's on a particular topic unless we are such experts. We ought to measure the value of one's speech through the scrutiny it has to go through to be published at trusted channels.
- d110af5ccf 4y ago> at trusted channels The public square is not in and of itself a trusted channel so I doubt you are talking about the same thing as the person you responded to.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoi assume you take it that twitter and FB are public squares? Well, I don’t.
- yibg 4y agoI hear this question posed a lot in this context, but we already done this now don't we? Someone (or ones) decides which laws are valid, which educational material to teach our kids etc. Are those not ok because some person or body of people have decided for the rest of society?