> Fix the broken trust between people.
What you describe is mostly fixing the trust in institutions. And I agree that doing so is important, though I don't see it addressing disinformation all that much (except, I suppose, official disinformation.)
But the problem with disinformation isn't so much the trustworthiness of institutions. It's, first, information originates somewhere. Sometimes it's from an institution. Sometimes it's from a foreign institution that's deliberately sowing disinformation. And sometimes it's from an individual who's either misinformed or deliberately sowing disinformation.
Then, second, disinformation gets spread. These days, much of this part is by individuals, though some of it is by fake individuals who are part of foreign disinformation campaigns. And this is where your quote comes in. Fix the broken trust between people? To do that, I need people who are trustworthy to not push disinformation onto my feed. To fix the trust, you need to fix the people so that they become trustworthy.
And even that breaks down when you have foreign disinformation campaigns, who create fake people and do everything they can to make them appear trustworthy, so that they will be believed when they spread disinformation.
I don't have a good solution. But any solution has to involve changing people.
What you describe is mostly fixing the trust in institutions. And I agree that doing so is important, though I don't see it addressing disinformation all that much (except, I suppose, official disinformation.)
But the problem with disinformation isn't so much the trustworthiness of institutions. It's, first, information originates somewhere. Sometimes it's from an institution. Sometimes it's from a foreign institution that's deliberately sowing disinformation. And sometimes it's from an individual who's either misinformed or deliberately sowing disinformation.
Then, second, disinformation gets spread. These days, much of this part is by individuals, though some of it is by fake individuals who are part of foreign disinformation campaigns. And this is where your quote comes in. Fix the broken trust between people? To do that, I need people who are trustworthy to not push disinformation onto my feed. To fix the trust, you need to fix the people so that they become trustworthy.
And even that breaks down when you have foreign disinformation campaigns, who create fake people and do everything they can to make them appear trustworthy, so that they will be believed when they spread disinformation.
I don't have a good solution. But any solution has to involve changing people.