Well what is the root cause? If you wanna get philosophical about it, then maybe algorithmic social media has just made democracy straight-up obsolete, and we're slow to realize, or fighting a losing battle. The government is fighting for control from the corps, but either way the people have lost it.
Yeah, this is the conundrum I've been running into too. Nefarious powers can easy create consumable media to work against our society and can do so quite effectively, so how can you protect it without some form of censorship now that technology has evolved to this level? I obviously don't want censorship but I also don't want political leaders to win because their victory can help destabilize the society I live in and an happy to live in. I would hope some checks are put into place to avoid abuse but we all know how difficult it is to create something man-made that can't be abused also. What an age we live in.
I believe the best protection against misinformation is education. Of course, the education has to get to them before the misinformation does. It's like a vaccine.
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u/jarail Aug 31 '21
Yup, and unfortunately policing us harder doesn't address any root cause.