I must admit, the Q&A session at Leiden University had some uncomfortable truths:
"Once people cross that threshold, it's very difficult to get them back", and
"The approach since 2016 has been to fact-check our way out of this problem, and that does not work"
It's worryingly undeniable.
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"Once people cross that threshold, it's very difficult to get them back", and
"The approach since 2016 has been to fact-check our way out of this problem, and that does not work"
It's worryingly undeniable.
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Next up is Czechia in October, later this year, and it doesn't look good.
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I hope we get to see the fruits of better eduction policy re disordered discourse, but I fear we don't have enough time.
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More comprehensive action might work, even in the short term, compared to limited counter-disinformation or fact-checking.
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I'm looking, perhaps naively, for the miracle vaccine - some short term policy that will at least tide us over until education inoculates enough of the population.
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