>if the Facebooks and Instagrams become flooded with fake posts from the people we know. It'll become expected and mundane. This seems good for the development of a skeptical public.
This is not how people or trust networks work.
What you are looking at is a sliver of human behavior- the silver lining on the cloud.
Most people instead will be confused, believe incorrect things, get frustrated when it’s wrong and then begin to trust their gut instincts in an information poor environment.
It would be very natural for people in this scenario to switch to old school centralized trust and truth organizations like clans, states and nations.
People need to understand the world and we regularly pay money to find out truth.
Investigation takes time and when the rate at which we can make believable content outstrips the rate at which investigators can be hired to debunk it, then even courts can’t keep up - which happens today.
FurhTher by leaving it to just the courts we also are saying that the casual consumer will not have access to a safe internet.
I argued yesterday that Chinese style great firewalls seem to be the likely model for our future, as opposed to the future democracies hoped to create.
Calling it based on fear or based on optimism is a luxury of the disconnected.
I am telling you how it is currently playing out on the ground in chat rooms, forums, facebook, Twitter and elsewhere, because I worked part time on moderating these places and saw first hand what was going on.
I’ve spoken to people who do policy for FAANGs and with activists on the ground. This is what is happening, and has happened in third world countries and developing nations without the man power to investigate most crimes.
This is a genuine concern - as long as engagement driven social media exists.
This is not how people or trust networks work.
What you are looking at is a sliver of human behavior- the silver lining on the cloud.
Most people instead will be confused, believe incorrect things, get frustrated when it’s wrong and then begin to trust their gut instincts in an information poor environment.
It would be very natural for people in this scenario to switch to old school centralized trust and truth organizations like clans, states and nations.
People need to understand the world and we regularly pay money to find out truth.
Investigation takes time and when the rate at which we can make believable content outstrips the rate at which investigators can be hired to debunk it, then even courts can’t keep up - which happens today.
FurhTher by leaving it to just the courts we also are saying that the casual consumer will not have access to a safe internet.
I argued yesterday that Chinese style great firewalls seem to be the likely model for our future, as opposed to the future democracies hoped to create.