In early 2000s I though internet was going to uplift societies via access to knowledge. What we got instead was disinformation, propaganda and clickbait and it's clearly a failure of our education systems. The ratio of people without critical thinking hasn't changed only now they're easier to target
Reposted from Eliot Higgins
My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

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