Nobody has adapted to this yet. A lot of old elites/gatekeepers have not demonstrated more than nostalgia for their eroded power, and the emergent elites/gatekeepers are, well, mostly incoherent. Individuals are mostly lost and confused. It's a process. We gotta tackle this.
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Here's the upside, and why I'm still an out-and-out optimist that it's possible to tackle this. Whatever worked of 20th century institutions didn't just emerge fully-formed a la Athena from Zeus' head. It was a lengthy, messy and incomplete process; this will be a process, too.
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Russian meddling is real and concerning, but the real problem is our weakened immune-system, and Russia is but one opportunistic infection. I think the challenges have become more readily visible compared to a few years ago. Better analytic grasp. More awareness. We go from here.
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Ohai, also, I'm hiring two post-docs (one CS/ML; one social science) to work with me in an interdisciplinary team to work on all this! If that looks interesting for you, please apply or share as appropriate please!https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1029379168281083904 …
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We need critical thinking skills for that and cuts to education over the last couple generations for "lower taxes" means that a large proportion of people don't have those skills.
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Working on it.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Was just having a conversation about this yesterday wrt a conservative trend of sharing screenshots rather than links. Seen as a disingenuous behavior by the left, but justified as a tool against "memoryholing" articles.
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The crux of the matter was how to identify what's fake even when it's physically impossible to do so (like edited pictures, where mistakes can be spotted, vs spoofed jscript headlines, which are indistinguishable from real ones).
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Look, the challenge before us is to redefine *critical thinking* to include figuring out what to believe, not just how to be skeptical. Personal and institutional.
