Repeat what you hear on MSNBC. David
On Sep 26, 2014, at 2:26 PM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Newton's Blog > > How to Spread Misinformation > > Posted by Ross Pomeroy September 26, 2014 > > With the advent of the Internet and social media, the average person is > afforded unprecedented power to consume and spread information. But with > great power, comes great responsibilities -- to be skeptical, to seek out > facts and evidence, to restrict, or at least not aid, the spread of rumors. > Of course, one also has the ability to completely ignore all those > responsibilities. When that happens, you may discover that you're a purveyor > of misinformation. > > And if you're going to spread misinformation, you might as well do it right. > To all the devout Natural News readers, anti-vaxxers, and alternative > medicine scam artists out there, this guide's for you! If truth and logic is > your thing, feel free to read these tips as well, then forget them, or better > yet, do the exact opposite. > > Embrace your biases. Whatever you're into, chances are you can find an > advocacy group, corporation, or political party whose tweets and Facebook > posts you can pass on without question! We humans have a tendency to favor > information that confirms our beliefs -- give in to it! Seek out sources that > share your stances and like-minded individuals to revel with. Turn your life > into a sounding board. > > > Don't stop. Don't think. According to psychologists, assessing the veracity > of a piece of information requires both motivation and brain power. You > certainly don't want to waste either of those precious resources. Better to > stick to your carefully tailored and guarded mindset. Avoid visiting pesky > websites like Snopes or TruthOrFiction. Don't bother searching out > conflicting sources or reading the entire article. Let the mass media be your > guide: if you want to be the most popular, you have to share the information > first! > > Repeat, repeat, repeat! Your friends, family, and followers need to know that > juicy bit of information or controversial discovery! So what if all the > "facts" don't line up? Facts don't change minds! Opinions are formed and > molded by a barrage of information. Whether that information is true or not > doesn't matter. > > Ignore the Fallout. Who cares if vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, > mumps, and whooping cough are on the rise because you've convinced everyone > that vaccines are evil? So what if you blindly shared a fake story that an > asteroid was set to wipe out all life on Earth? Who cares if you fueled a > fire of false allegations that nearly destroyed somebody's life? If you do > start to feel guilty, just take a look at that insane photo that's too > unbelievable to be true... then hit "share." > > > Whatever you do, don't read these: "Digital Wildfires in a Hyperconnected > World." World Economic Forum. 2013 > > Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Colleen M. Seifert, Norbert > Schwarz, and John Cook. "Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued > Influence and Successful Debiasing." Psychological Science in the Public > Interest December 2012 vol. 13 no. 3 106-131 > > "I Don't Want to Be Right." Maria Konnikova. The New Yorker. May 2014. > > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
