Yoodle 🇨🇦What’s the best way to deal with disinformation campaigns? Disinfo campaigns seem like a serious problem, and imo are responsible for a lot of the political instability we see today. But I don’t see any good way to prevent them. One option is censorship, but that can backfire and is easily abused. Another option is user verification, but most implementations of that sound like a privacy nightmare. So what do we do? Are there any good solutions?
FruitConsumer@chimpchomp
If the well's poisoned, stop drinking from it.
Build real networks with real humans and form real friendships. And regard most things with: "Who knows these days. Sounds like that'd be what these known bad actors want, so might be true."
Assign some actors (journalists, etc) as trusted ones and audit their track record and conduct. It's human to err, though.
There could be some AI to detect likely disinformation campaign patterns, too. Flagging known bad actors might be good, too.
@FruitConsumer this is all good advice. Unfortunately i think it would be very difficult to get the majority of people to abide by this though, and disinfo campaigns operate at the population level. As others have said though progress can perhaps slowly be made by including this stuff in the education system. From what I understand other countries such as Taiwan already include how to recognize disinfo as part of the curriculum in the public school system