your story about your friend saying we need to look out for poisonous snakes and then later you finding out from a more authoritative source that there aren’t any around there, the story makes me think in those pre-Internet days there wasn’t much fake news, except maybe the national enquirer newspaper which everyone knew was fake news, but these days there’s so much misinformation and divisive and hateful online comments and articles which are probably written by AI or at least people paid to write them or maybe even people who are trapped in human trafficking and forced to write them, so everyone needs to be on their guard about believing almost anything anyone writes or says.
I agree that we seem to be wading in misinformation these days. In the old days, there was the perhaps hidden issue of who got to decide what was news and what served as truth.
your story about your friend saying we need to look out for poisonous snakes and then later you finding out from a more authoritative source that there aren’t any around there, the story makes me think in those pre-Internet days there wasn’t much fake news, except maybe the national enquirer newspaper which everyone knew was fake news, but these days there’s so much misinformation and divisive and hateful online comments and articles which are probably written by AI or at least people paid to write them or maybe even people who are trapped in human trafficking and forced to write them, so everyone needs to be on their guard about believing almost anything anyone writes or says.
I agree that we seem to be wading in misinformation these days. In the old days, there was the perhaps hidden issue of who got to decide what was news and what served as truth.