4 thoughts on “Misinformation, Redefined Beyond All Meaning

  1. The fundamental problem, of course, is the whole issue of recent Type I and Type II errors when it comes to what was called misinformation (but wasn’t) and what was misinformation (but none of the misinformation experts flagged it).

    And, of course, the “after”.

    “Why did you call this misinformation when it was true?”
    “TRIGGERED? LIKE YOU NEVER MAKE A MISTAKE? HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT MISTER PERFECT OVER HERE!”

    “This was obvious misinformation, why didn’t you flag it?”
    “There are only so many hours in the day.”
    “Is there a form that people like me can fill out to have it flagged?”
    “Oh, so you can abuse the system and flood it with false flags?”

    Kinda gives the game away.Report

  2. “Traditional news media, and to a lesser extent the new media and social media that has come to compete with them, are in the meaningful signals business. Not just the stories or breaking news but how it is presented in order to context to an audience. Everything from tone of voice, music used, the graphics surrounding the screen, the placement of the segment in the broadcast, all those things are signals as to the importance and meaning of the story being covered.”

    What if, and hear me out here, this is a significant part of the problem.Report

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