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Are you arguing that the people who decide what's misinformation and what isn't are somehow immune to that kind of hack on their reasoning faculties?



That’s a better question and moves the discussion forward.

Yes - and No.

To fairly answer your question, there’s different levels of sophistication to misinformation.

It ranges from vaccines will grow you another arm, to the Gates foundation is using this to impoverish nations. (I’m loosely using current examples)

So yes - experts can and will be able to avoid many of the misinformation attempts out there. The ones which they fall victim to - in their own area of expertise, are likely unavoidable.

For google to remove healthcare misinformation, they will be targeting the obvious content that has been flagged and likely supported by govts orgs.

I feel that many people are arguing about the case where the gatekeepers are wrong - which was an issue in a world where traffic through the gates was more orderly and the gatekeepers had historically been mistaken in stopping traffic.

Right now, even if I don’t like gatekeepers, I have no choice.

Someone has figured out to how to mass produce obviously and subtly malicious traffic.

The issue at this juncture in time is the lack of effective filtering.

Since we don’t have a better solution, we get forced to use gatekeeping.


And what happens when the gatekeepers get captured?




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