10th October 2019, 2:41 PM
(5th October 2019, 4:25 PM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: I mean, we have evidence. There's whole chains of where claims came from, and they can be followed. I believe that's how people used to confirm facts before smellovision.
That's true for journalists (the few we have left), whose job it is to investigate these claims. Some you can trust, others not-so-much. But as an end-user, consumer of information and current events, and someone who feels like he has to dig deeper to cut through the noise, any new form of false information is frustrating. I started writing my last post about lamenting how ignorant people will spread and believe whatever deep fake propaganda that they consume, then realized that I shouldn't be so haughty as to assume I wouldn't be susceptible to it as well.
The internet has opened up all sorts of new channels for disinformation. This will only add to it. It's hard enough to convince someone they're misinformed in what they read. My guess is we'll see a growing trend of smear videos that get spammed by the same trolls who regularly spam memes.
People have become accustomed to sticking with whatever news outlets, bloggers, and echo chambers that confirm their beliefs. Social media has been especially pernicious in fostering this mental poison. The internet has made us dumber and more narrow-minded, when it should have been the opposite. I guess this rant is going beyond the scope of the topic, but still. Something about fake video propaganda seems like some next-level shit that makes my stomach lurch. This isn't just editing footage to spin a narrative, this is whole-sale inventing new footage that's indistinguishable from reality.
Hopefully websites like Snopes will be able to shed light on which videos we can trust, which we can't, and which are indeterminable. What ratio will we see of the three?