• vividspecter@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    The problem is that people are vulnerable to disinformation and now there is little to no pushback on these platforms.

    In a world where people are expert critical thinkers with no biases and perfect rationality it wouldn’t matter, but that isn’t how people work in the slightest.

    • john89@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Who gets to decide what’s disinformation?

      Once upon a time, scientific consensus classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.

      This is why psychology is a soft science and not worthy of the authority afforded to hard sciences.