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?
Drew@chimpchomp maybe formal education in practical media discernment skills? Where you educate people on how not what to think so they know when they are being influenced? I think about this pretty often but haven’t found a satisfactory answer
@dharmadischarge iI know there are some places that already incorporate this into the public education system, so it would be interesting to see some stats on how they’re well they fair compared to us
@chimpchomp I think teaching that the truth can be ambiguously expressed and reductionist framing behavior is coercive to the point of taking away consent. Or making digital spaces have more consequences (using ids). I think most people use the internet as a opportunity to turn there neighbor into npcs and the anonymity of it makes it easier and with how troll bots are so pervasive it almost practical necessity to dismiss most interactions before even considering to investing emotionally.
@chimpchomp I know that last post may seem unrelated but understanding how psychology works and what encourages the best circumstances for the most people and a big part of it is accountability and how to keep people invested and engaged in a process nurturing responsibility through relationships and community.
What ever people can get away with and still live with themselves decides everything. And society is simpler its the discussion of the individual with the community of what is acceptable
@dharmadischarge i get what you are saying but i dont know if getting rid of anonymity is the solution here. For example people are generally not anonymous on Facebook yet it still seems to be one of the more toxic social media networks out there
@chimpchomp that is very valid I ran out of characters but I typed at one point that emphasizing the human rights of children so you can’t have indoctrination of the youth into the multi generational trauma of family politics through peer pressure and conditioning. Most social media is predatory and trains us to engage with it on its terms and its very purpose is take from us as much as it can for maximum profit.
We are the product on social media and we’re working to sell ourselves.
@chimpchomp not to sound hopeless but a lot of it is a personal responsibility of people who have been conditioned and trained to not do what is in there self interest.
They are chasing a brain numbing algorithmic high that gives us peace by taking away our sense of responsibility and maybe reinforcing a sense of traction to reality by holding predatory companies accountable. Doing what we are right now the simple act of trying to invest in people through discussion is most of what we can do.
@chimpchomp though I will apologize for rambling and sending so many messages it is something that means a lot to me.
@dharmadischarge yeah social media addiction is a real issue. Thats another very tricky problem with no clear solution