#Misinformation #ConspiracyTheories #Censorship: "Unfortunately, not only do most citizens not pay much attention to politics or the news, but a minority actively distrust institutions such as modern science, public health authorities, and mainstream media. The causes of this distrust are complex and diverse. They include psychological traits that predispose some people towards paranoid worldviews; institutional failures, such as telling noble lies to manage public behaviour and dismissing legitimate ideas as conspiracy theories; and feelings—often justified—of exclusion from positions of power and influence. Whatever its causes, however, such distrust often drives people to seek out information—commonly misinformation—from counter-establishment sources and reject information from mainstream ones."
https://iai.tv/articles/misinformation-is-the-symptom-not-the-disease-daniel-walliams-auid-2690
@remixtures thank you - I found the idea of a societal health metric enlightening.
“What would an epistemically healthy society look like? … there would be enough social trust that everyone – citizen and policymakers alike – would genuinely try to understand why others disagree with them instead of dismissing other views as the result of brute irrationality or brainwashing.”
https://iai.tv/articles/misinformation-is-the-symptom-not-the-disease-daniel-walliams-auid-2690
