▲ | godelski 4 days ago | |||||||
Isn't the goal of disinformation campaigns to create a post truth era? It's very hard to combat. I hope since HN has an at least above average intelligence userbase and familiarity with the internet that we'd be better at fighting this. I hope we don't give up the fight. I think some advice I got from another academic about how to serve as a reviewer applies more broadly.
The point is that nothing is perfect. So the real question is if we're making progress to finding truth or if we're just being lazy or overly perfectionist. Or Feynman said something similar. (Not a precise quote) "the first rule is not to be fooled and you're the easiest person for you to fool" | ||||||||
▲ | marcosdumay 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> Isn't the goal of disinformation campaigns to create a post truth era? I dunno, and I'm not sure if you are including the major newspapers on the campaigner or victim group... but it would help if they weren't caught in blatant lies all the time. Gell-Mann amnesia stops working once people hear about the concept. Anyway, if the NYT published something on the lines of "public person X says Y in public", that would have high odds of being true. But "cybersecurity issue X identified in country-the-us-doesn't-like-Y" is almost certainly bullshit and even if there is something there, the journalist doesn't know enough to get the story right. | ||||||||
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