New ask Hacker News story: How can the quality of political information be improved?
How can the quality of political information be improved?
2 by iheartblocks | 0 comments on Hacker News.
In my mind, the single greatest threat humanity faces is that truth has become relative, polarized, and ambiguous. Most of the people storming the Capitol weren't lunatics, or anarchists, but regular folks who are terrified. They're terrified because they really believe that their favored candidate was illegally robbed of office. It's easy to dismiss their concerns, but for those people this is their reality. What they see on Facebook, Youtube, TV, and radio reinforces and invigorates their fear and anger. The people who run those platforms, or create that content, aren't necessarily evil, they just exist in an ecosystem where engagement is king and tepid, informative content is forgotten. Unless this balkanization of the truth can be stopped, I don't see how our republic, or any republic, could possibly survive. What can be done to fix this problem?
2 by iheartblocks | 0 comments on Hacker News.
In my mind, the single greatest threat humanity faces is that truth has become relative, polarized, and ambiguous. Most of the people storming the Capitol weren't lunatics, or anarchists, but regular folks who are terrified. They're terrified because they really believe that their favored candidate was illegally robbed of office. It's easy to dismiss their concerns, but for those people this is their reality. What they see on Facebook, Youtube, TV, and radio reinforces and invigorates their fear and anger. The people who run those platforms, or create that content, aren't necessarily evil, they just exist in an ecosystem where engagement is king and tepid, informative content is forgotten. Unless this balkanization of the truth can be stopped, I don't see how our republic, or any republic, could possibly survive. What can be done to fix this problem?
