This interesting article by Sound Eagle covers the nuanced issues with contemporary measures of truth. Worth reading right now. The issues are becoming even more complex as artificial intelligence spreads. We can still know reality from its sights and sounds, but as all humanity receives the ability to create visible and aural objects, these basics of reality lose their solidity.
Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity
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Click the headings below to jump to different sections within the post. Mind Pollution by Viral FalsityM E N U
- Introduction : All the World’s a Stage of Misinformation
- Cognitive Biases : A Minefield of Mental Traps for the Unwary
- Infodemic : Media Landscape & Information Ecosystem Pollution
- Hype, Bias, Affect : Appeal to Emotion & Lazy Thinking
- Misquotation & Misinformation : A Gateway to Bad Conduct
- Social Media : Social Amplification & Cultural Tribalism
- Infographic : Escaping Confirmation Bias & Echo Chamber
- Social Fracture : Existential Crisis, Subjectivity & Acculturation
- Fact-Checking : An Emerging Market Fraught with Issues
- Post-Truth : Weaponizing…
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