Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉2d ago

This is an amazing thread, holy shit.

https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3mitbqzpvhk2x

Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social)

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

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It introduces this document, but I found the thread makes a compelling case to read this:

https://demos.co.uk/research/verification-deliberation-accountability-a-new-framework-for-tackling-epistemic-collapse-and-renewing-democracy/

Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy

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