Our society seems to be rather gullible about falling for hoaxes, false flags, and false allegations. What are some practical ways we could increase skepticism, due diligence, due process, and objectivity?
There already exist laws against lying in certain arenas (e.g. defamation, fraud, purgery, etc). It's pretty easy to keep things clear cut.
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A politician tweets a false claim about a person. It spreads without the intermediation of a journalist. The false claim persists, is retweeted many times. Should the law cover this?
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If the person decides to sue for defamation.
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It is easy to expose false reporting and it does get exposed. Information markets function fairly efficiently in a democracy. Perhaps it could be useful to first empirically demonstrate a serious market failure before resorting to regulation.
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Who would you define as a journalist?
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