Mažvydas Jastramskis: "Social networks are becoming a threat to truth.
Not because they brainwash people and replace facts with lies. They are not surgical and direct.
Rather, social networks exploit the human tendency to reject personally inconvenient facts and to seek out versions of events...
Not because they brainwash people and replace facts with lies. They are not surgical and direct.
Rather, social networks exploit the human tendency to reject personally inconvenient facts and to seek out versions of events...
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This is easier now than at any time in human history. This ease is further enabled by the decisions of the leaders of social networks X, Facebook, Instagram to abandon fact-checking features.
Lies will increase.
But the problem goes much deeper than that. Even with fact-...
They both support and reinforce a psychological mechanism very typical of homo sapiens: confirmation bias. When we see more clearly, we look for information that confirms our world view. It makes us feel better.
But it does not help the truth."