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- Zuckerberg is Right to Ditch the Fact Checkers.
Attempts at top down information control are counterproductive. After eight years (perhaps better counted as two US electoral cycles) of partnering with fact checkers, Meta is making major changes to the way it handles misinformation and other harmful content on its platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Meta will, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg: A lot […]
- Metamodernism as the Higher Naivety.
The emerging ideology is more than just an oscillation between credulity and cynicism. Introduction Our universe seems to be neither maximally simple, nor maximally complicated. There’ s some regularity, but it’s not completely logically trivial. It’s not like every little particle follows its own set of laws, but it’s also not like we can reduce […]
- On Romania’s Cancelled Elections, Disinformation and Democracy.
Panicked elites are only too happy to throw the democratic baby out with the disinformation bathwater. The highest court in Romania has cancelled the presidential election that was underway, calling the results of the first round null and void because of Russian bots peddling misinformation and supporting an outsider candidate – who surprised everybody and […]