> difference between 50% truthiness and 75% truthiness is just not that important
It’s a 1% false-information rate versus 20 to 40% [1]. (You can identify someone consuming that stuff within a few minutes of conversation. They’re unusually correlated in their tells, given how seemingly diverse the number of providers are.)
> the missing 25% is the most important part
Read real journalism from multiple countries. (Not the free propaganda stuff.)
Once someone is addicted to alternative news, I don’t think they can be recovered. But we can keep more folks from going down that path.
It’s a 1% false-information rate versus 20 to 40% [1]. (You can identify someone consuming that stuff within a few minutes of conversation. They’re unusually correlated in their tells, given how seemingly diverse the number of providers are.)
> the missing 25% is the most important part
Read real journalism from multiple countries. (Not the free propaganda stuff.)
Once someone is addicted to alternative news, I don’t think they can be recovered. But we can keep more folks from going down that path.
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/partisan...
[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21670811.2024.23...
[3] https://news.umich.edu/mainstream-news-more-reliable-than-so...