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shivers > “A lot of disinformation is not just whether something is true or false — it escapes from the limits of fact-checking. Something can be factually acc
by DarkNova6 3y ago
shivers
> “A lot of disinformation is not just whether something is true or false — it escapes from the limits of fact-checking. Something can be factually accurate but still extremely harmful… [GDI] leads you to a more useful definition of disinformation… It’s not saying something is or is not disinformation, but it is saying that content on this site or this particular article is content that is anti-immigrant, content that is anti-women, content that is antisemitic…”
Ministry of wrongspeak in the making. With indipendent journalism being on the verge of collapse any country serious about disinformation would create subsidies for high quality journalism instead.
- coldtea 3y ago>Something can be factually accurate but still extremely harmful "You can't handle the truth, let the big boys handle it for you, and we'll give you some comforting lies to content with" >any country serious about disinformation What governments care about is information they don't control and open debate about it. It's a handy way to add a "officially approved" stamp on the news they like. As for disinformation proper, they produce it themselves by the tonnes.
- DarkNova6 3y ago> What governments care about is information they don't control and open debate about it. It's a handy way to add a "officially approved" stamp on the news they like. Not exclusive to government at all. This primarily concerns monopolies which are increasingly forming in the private sector.
- coldtea 3y agoSure, but those private sector monopolies also just do the job the government asks them, or blackmails them, or legally forces them, or "encourages" them, to do for it...