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Besides the speed at which information is coming at us, there is an additional component - the fraction of that information that is lies. When you lived in a s
by AnimalMuppet 2y ago
Besides the speed at which information is coming at us, there is an additional component - the fraction of that information that is lies.
When you lived in a small village, most people didn't lie most of the time. The ones who did, you knew who they were. You might not know what was going on at the royal court in the capital city, but you could have a pretty accurate idea of what was going on in your town.
What fraction of tweets are lies/misinformation? Things have changed.
- sky2224 2y agoYou bring up another interesting point that I hadn't realized. The internet doesn't allow us to recognize the "liars" as easily. In the village example you gave, you have a person's face to go off of. On the internet, I could see 100 different "people", but it could be all the same face and I just don't know it. There's a bunch of variations of that, but I think you get the point. Our natural abilities to filter things appropriately is drastically hindered and subverted in the current forms of delivery on the internet.