In which I expand on my previous post about misinformation studies, argue there is no such thing as "inoculating yourself against misinformation" & warn against top down control
"haute bourgeois propaganda"...yesterday marked the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight. Only 9 weeks previous to that flight, the NYT mocked the idea of heavier-than-air flight:
And in 1920, Robert Goddard's rocket experiments were dismissed by that newspaper in an almost unbelievably arrogant manner:
"That professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react -- to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
The real threat to our informational ecosystem is …
Secret, illegal discrimination against hiring Republican professors.
All tax exempt orgs should be required to be diverse, at least 30% Republican & 30% Democrat.
NYT false info, misinformation, for 2 years of Collusion hoax fake news, certainly helped Dems in 2018 election. NYT, and US (deep state) govt censorship of the truth of H Biden’s corruption, with smoking gun evidence on his laptop, helped Biden win in 2020. (Rigged election! Stolen)
Most college educated folk don’t want to believe that the US election was actually stolen. They look for, and provide a market for, rationalizations that it wasn’t stolen. Just like the Williams theory predicts they, and Dan Williams himself, will do.
Now, you might ask: Why do I need a mnemonic for this? Well, imagine walking out of your house, moisturised and thriving, when misinformation suddenly catches you off-guard. In such a situation you need DEPICT, so that you quickly remember what the DNA of misinformation is, correctly identify the misinformation chasing you and repel it! Bam! The Misinformation is dead, on the floor, screaming and kicking.
"haute bourgeois propaganda"...yesterday marked the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight. Only 9 weeks previous to that flight, the NYT mocked the idea of heavier-than-air flight:
https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-impossible/
And in 1920, Robert Goddard's rocket experiments were dismissed by that newspaper in an almost unbelievably arrogant manner:
"That professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react -- to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/07/19/the-correction-heard-round-the-world-when-the-new-york-times-apologized-to-robert-goddard/?sh=321463304543
The real threat to our informational ecosystem is …
Secret, illegal discrimination against hiring Republican professors.
All tax exempt orgs should be required to be diverse, at least 30% Republican & 30% Democrat.
NYT false info, misinformation, for 2 years of Collusion hoax fake news, certainly helped Dems in 2018 election. NYT, and US (deep state) govt censorship of the truth of H Biden’s corruption, with smoking gun evidence on his laptop, helped Biden win in 2020. (Rigged election! Stolen)
Most college educated folk don’t want to believe that the US election was actually stolen. They look for, and provide a market for, rationalizations that it wasn’t stolen. Just like the Williams theory predicts they, and Dan Williams himself, will do.
It’s a great theory.
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while:
Now, you might ask: Why do I need a mnemonic for this? Well, imagine walking out of your house, moisturised and thriving, when misinformation suddenly catches you off-guard. In such a situation you need DEPICT, so that you quickly remember what the DNA of misinformation is, correctly identify the misinformation chasing you and repel it! Bam! The Misinformation is dead, on the floor, screaming and kicking.
thank you!
Great stuff.
I think you're misrepresenting misinformation studies.
how does this apply here?