War Against Misinformation, Disinformation May Be Lost
At best, fact-based truths are unlikely to be widely accepted for decades
Humans may be reverting to the age of mythology and superstition, when what’s true is only that which we “feel” is true, that which confirms preconceived biases and prejudices, not what is factual, that which our “tribe” — liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, ethnicity, nationality — approves.
I was shocked when a fellow journalism school grad p…
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