"We should disallow anonymous postings on those sites, and every person should be responsible for their actions and held accountable for what they say."
I'm not entirely against this, but I think it would be even more unpopular than proper fact-checking. Plus, man of the worst liars on social media DO use their real names (I'm looking at …
"We should disallow anonymous postings on those sites, and every person should be responsible for their actions and held accountable for what they say."
I'm not entirely against this, but I think it would be even more unpopular than proper fact-checking. Plus, man of the worst liars on social media DO use their real names (I'm looking at you Elon).
Accountability for speech is hard at the best of times. It's incredibly rare that a single lie or comment leads to any real-world consequences. The problem I see is the cumulative radicalising effect of hundreds of thousands of dishonest posts, fed to you aggressively by and algorithm that excludes any counterpoints, until, oh, I don't know, ordinary people are incentivised to break into the capitol building and smear their sh*t on the walls.
There was no single piece of misinformation that could have done this. It's the cumulative lies that do the damage.
"We should disallow anonymous postings on those sites, and every person should be responsible for their actions and held accountable for what they say."
I'm not entirely against this, but I think it would be even more unpopular than proper fact-checking. Plus, man of the worst liars on social media DO use their real names (I'm looking at you Elon).
Accountability for speech is hard at the best of times. It's incredibly rare that a single lie or comment leads to any real-world consequences. The problem I see is the cumulative radicalising effect of hundreds of thousands of dishonest posts, fed to you aggressively by and algorithm that excludes any counterpoints, until, oh, I don't know, ordinary people are incentivised to break into the capitol building and smear their sh*t on the walls.
There was no single piece of misinformation that could have done this. It's the cumulative lies that do the damage.
Sadly true. We live in a strange world.