Allowing misinformation to spread makes it more likely that even more people will start to believe it – because people come to believe things they hear repeatedly, even if they know at first that it's not true.
There is no easy or perfect solution. But you can go a long way toward protecting yourself and those in your social networks from confusion, deception and falsehood.
Here are 7 tips from social psychologists:
https://theconversation.com/7-ways-to-avoid-becoming-a-misinformation-superspreader-157099
#news #misinformation
"I'm an expert in fraud, I've been defrauded dozens of times this month alone!"
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> Allowing misinformation to spread makes it more likely that even more people will start to believe it – because people come to believe things they hear repeatedly, even if they know at first that it's not true.
This is why politicians repeatedly parrot talking points they know to be blatantly untrue.
@sj_zero
> "there are definitely WMDs in Iraq"
Is anyone still trying to maintain that?
@sj_zero
> Does it matter?
If it doesn't, why bring it up?
> then the same government thinks it ought to protect us from lies
Ae, I just posted a big thread about that;
"They eventually stopped lying" isn't really material when it was a huge lie with huge consequences. They lied about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment as well and after 40 years finally came clean, they lied for 40 years and caused massive suffering to innocent people virtually their entire lives.
@sj_zero
> "They eventually stopped lying" isn't really material
We're talking past each other. You said;
> Still waiting
... implying the claim was still being made. AFAIK the news media acknowledged years ago that the claim was a Weapon of Mass Distraction. After a series of high level government reports looked hard for evidence supporting it, and found none.
So this one is settled, even in "mainstream" discourse. No reason to be still waiting.
Because it was a blatant, bald-faced, shameless lie. It was an irredeemable lie that led to millions of deaths and untold suffering.
And despite being lying liars who lie, they want to control who gets to call something the truth or "misinformation", after all the lying they did, and are doing, and fully intend to unrepentantly intend to continue to do.
@sj_zero
> it was a blatant, bald-faced, shameless lie. It was an irredeemable lie that led to millions of deaths and untold suffering
Yes it was. *Was*.
> they want to control who gets to call something the truth or "misinformation", after all the lying they did, and are doing
Some very important questions to ask about this;
Whose lie was it?
Who knew it was a lie?
Who was fooled, and repeated what they believed to be true, on the say-so of institutional actors?
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/c84806a9-b6a7-4c4e-9f21-38b87552eb59
Also - and this is crucial - how do we now have conclusive proof that it was a lie, as most activists always suspected? Why do most people now accept it as proven?
To what degree does this represent democratic institutions, including within governance and news media, working as intended?
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