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Agreed. This is a social problem and no amount of technical solutioneering will solve it. A significant chunk of the US believes Obama is a Muslim and/or Kenyan
by 542458 3y ago
Agreed. This is a social problem and no amount of technical solutioneering will solve it. A significant chunk of the US believes Obama is a Muslim and/or Kenyan on the weight of approximately no evidence. Large numbers of people treat images of people with glossy skin and mangled hands on Facebook and Instagram as photographic fact. VFX videos that would be lambasted as amateurish and unconvincing in a film are treated as undeniable evidence by many commenters on YouTube and TikTok. These are not highly sophisticated lies, and yet many people accept them uncritically because they haven’t learned any better.
- jfengel 3y agoThey have in fact learned the opposite. We've spent decades carefully separating ourselves from even the most obvious critical thinking skills that a child would employ. Long before sophisticated disinformation tools people readily slurped up the most obvious lies. I'm really at a loss.
- 93po 3y ago> yet many people accept them uncritically because they haven’t learned any better. The political establishment doesn't necessarily want critical thinking - they just want you to believe their version of lies. People uncritically accept anything negative about Trump all the time and people who own media channels don't want that to change.