Yes but... There has also been so much top down misinformation from the allegedly credible. Wrong and harmful kind. It’s what’s fueling the demand for smart seeming counterinformation. We will never get through this without reckoning with that. @noUpside https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1241598924516986881 …
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Right? Companies will take down Joe Schmo, but unless they're also taking down Trump, does it really make a difference?
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And also realize that a lot of misinformation is coming from the other side of the aisle as well, not just Trump, and from the blue check crowd. This is very hard, and something third-world countries have dealt with for a long time, unfortunately.
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Certainly, but I'd still posit that an elected leader's misinfo has a greater impact (and the companies' policies reflect a belief in the exact opposite)
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Yes all true. I'm just pointing out that many people are looking for credible seeming counterinformation partly because what should have been credible sources have been burning their credibility, too. Most of them know to disregared Trump...
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One would think, and yet there's a global hydroxychloroquin shortage. Two Nigerians overdosed on it yesterday. Not so sure people know to disregard Trump.
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Many of the kind that share those smart-seeming Medium articles on top of this thread are the kind that are disregarding Trump, mostly.
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Just saw the earlier part of the thread (I didn't catch it before) - the question I always bring up in misinfo convos has been the NYT and WMDs (knowing that companies wouldn't have taken that down). Guess we're back to that question.
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Yep. Probably the biggest "traditional institutions including media" failure in a while, perhaps compares to the Iraq/WMD failure. I don't think the misinformation/social media space has yet digested the last months because they're so focused on Trump's failings or other misinfo.
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Oh yes finally a level headed tweet. Like that whole wasted energy of labeling it racist to call it where it came from ... The more they make a fuss about this the more I wonder why they are not looking into the Chinese gov lies and how complicit WHO has been?
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