When Trump Lies, It Undermines the Promise of the Internet
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/trump-lies-undermines-promise-internet/
Information on the Internet Is Truth-Agnostic. A lot of the
time, of course, that's exactly how the Internet works. It's why
in countries like North Korea where Internet access is limited,
activists risk their lives just to smuggle old American sitcoms
into the country in hopes that exposure to any new information
about the wider world will free North Koreans' minds. But in the
case of Trump, the system isn't working as it should--or at
least, not as many people believed it would. Instead, even as
the Internet has democratized access to information, it's also
democratized who gets to be the source of that information,
creating an environment in which the truth is easily discovered,
but misinformation, and those who spread it, can also thrive.
"The Internet is the best fact-checker and the best
bias-confirmer ever invented," says Michael Lynch, professor of
philosophy at University of Chicago and author of the new book
The Internet of Us. "It's both things at once."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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