We know how brains operate and process information. We know that it’s not going to treat information in an unbiased manner.
It processes identity information, threats, statistics and out group information differently - among a whole world of idiosyncrasies.
Attackers sadly also know enough how to create content that subverts that processing in precise manners.
It’s content designed simply to propagate and defeat logical or rational scrutiny.
Its filled with the kinds of logical fallacies that maybe YOU would defeat, but are so broadly spread that it will always find victims.
Those victims are then set up for the next round of content and then the next round.
Eventually this content dominates the discourse. It’s like suddenly everyone knows that the yeti was an astronaut.
Google misses more misinformation than it finds - and this is even if we discuss only America or the English speaking world.
Smaller nations aren’t even coveted, and rare languages or regions don’t even have automated analysis
Why is it so hard to believe that people will simply be foolish and create garbage on their own?
But that doesn’t mean attackers don’t exist, or that they happily co opt those communities to seed and propagate their content as well.
And most of that content stays up. It takes a lot for any of the tech cos to act right now.
We know how brains operate and process information. We know that it’s not going to treat information in an unbiased manner.
It processes identity information, threats, statistics and out group information differently - among a whole world of idiosyncrasies.
Attackers sadly also know enough how to create content that subverts that processing in precise manners.
It’s content designed simply to propagate and defeat logical or rational scrutiny.
Its filled with the kinds of logical fallacies that maybe YOU would defeat, but are so broadly spread that it will always find victims.
Those victims are then set up for the next round of content and then the next round.
Eventually this content dominates the discourse. It’s like suddenly everyone knows that the yeti was an astronaut.
Google misses more misinformation than it finds - and this is even if we discuss only America or the English speaking world.
Smaller nations aren’t even coveted, and rare languages or regions don’t even have automated analysis