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> It is a pretty common tactic for the spreaders of true misinformation to claim their it's also a common tactic of people to label things they don't agree wit

> It is a pretty common tactic for the spreaders of true misinformation to claim their it's also a common tactic of people to label things they don't agree with as misinformation... > Getting you to question everything is part of what they want. What is the alternative you're proposing here? Blind belief? If you do respond can you try to keep it short and sweet and in a single paragraph.

dahart 2y ago
Like I said, I don’t know what the solution is, because I think its a hard problem that we can’t just solve with education. I certainly didn’t propose blind belief. It’s true that doesn’t work. Blind disbelief also doesn’t work. I’m just pointing out that there’s evidence that “question everything” not only is not the solution, it may be feeding the trolls and serving their agenda, as is framing fake news as being suppressed dissent. I agree some people label dissent as misinformation. I suppose that’s another form of fake news. Maybe part of the solution is to stop discussing politics all the time, stop listening to it, and stop taking sides. We don’t need to decide whether every thing a politician said is true or not, we have better things to talk about. Yes it would be nice if we could teach people to have the right level of skepticism that fake news wouldn’t work, that’s a good goal to have. It would also be good to find a way to build some trust and stop the cycle of increasing polarization. We do have shared values. Figuring out how to talk about those again would be great. The trend has been in the opposite direction, maybe because gossip and drama and tribalism are easier. On the other hand, I do reserve a lot of optimism that most people are good and aren’t obsessed with politics. This article provides some evidence of that, if the majority of the talking points are spread by a tiny minority. Maybe there is a solution here that can address this tiny minority directly, maybe this isn’t a general populace education issue but one we have hope of fixing because the audience is rather small…

dahart 2y ago

Like I said, I don’t know what the solution is, because I think its a hard problem that we can’t just solve with education. I certainly didn’t propose blind belief. It’s true that doesn’t work. Blind disbelief also doesn’t work. I’m just pointing out that there’s evidence that “question everything” not only is not the solution, it may be feeding the trolls and serving their agenda, as is framing fake news as being suppressed dissent. I agree some people label dissent as misinformation. I suppose that’s another form of fake news. Maybe part of the solution is to stop discussing politics all the time, stop listening to it, and stop taking sides. We don’t need to decide whether every thing a politician said is true or not, we have better things to talk about. Yes it would be nice if we could teach people to have the right level of skepticism that fake news wouldn’t work, that’s a good goal to have. It would also be good to find a way to build some trust and stop the cycle of increasing polarization. We do have shared values. Figuring out how to talk about those again would be great. The trend has been in the opposite direction, maybe because gossip and drama and tribalism are easier. On the other hand, I do reserve a lot of optimism that most people are good and aren’t obsessed with politics. This article provides some evidence of that, if the majority of the talking points are spread by a tiny minority. Maybe there is a solution here that can address this tiny minority directly, maybe this isn’t a general populace education issue but one we have hope of fixing because the audience is rather small…