one of the slow-building trainwrecks going into the next couple of years is that here in 2019 literally no one has any idea what to do about disinformation. We all know it's bad and getting worse. And every idea to stop it seems flawed in different ways. https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/1105166274387075072 …pic.twitter.com/EVgQpeyh3Q
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it is human nature that disinformation will exist and spread. our online lives now make its spread even faster and farther. half our attempts to stop it only make it worse. The other half amount to some academic saying "well don't do that anymore" as if that helps.pic.twitter.com/AzxnQkLkcv
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The traditional journalistic impulse to either ignore something that, to you, is silly on its face lets disinfo spread in a vacuum. Or do you write about it, just to say it's not true, and instead amplify it and help it spread farther?pic.twitter.com/O5oUqLgFKe
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Other times in history we've not had the rabid-fire spread of demonstrably false information. It's spread, for sure, far and wide, but not THIS far and wide. So traditional models to combat it — ignore it, wait it out — are incompatible with our era.pic.twitter.com/mBuuO9d7cG
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How the marketing for The Blair Witch Project years ago set the stage for the dissemination of online disinformation in this thread i will 1/456pic.twitter.com/TWbFMltc5n
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