Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co...
by intended on Friday April 24, 2020 @04:13AM
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Bollocks.
This is old, early internet era naïveté.
Sure - anecdotally- you could perhaps convince one person by highlighting information.
But the plural of anecdote is not data.
At scale - sunlight and exposure increases dissemination of bad ideas.
Designing ideas to sound appealing in a viral sense means that even their dismissal and refutation by authority sources only increases their spread in the target population.
“Of course the governments going to deny they made the corona virus! They aren’t stupid.”
“Of course scientists would say that, they need grant money.”
All the ideas that grow from the root of this tree fail at scale.
Malicious actors are beyond the scope of this axiom for example - they don’t care about being defeated in argument- they just want to let vulnerable people know they exist, and then have them fall into their ideological orbit.
Competition over information networks only drives the news cycle effect - a market adapting to target the weakest link the human Fight or flight response, over giving better quality news.
This is old, early internet era naïveté.
Sure - anecdotally- you could perhaps convince one person by highlighting information.
But the plural of anecdote is not data.
At scale - sunlight and exposure increases dissemination of bad ideas.
Designing ideas to sound appealing in a viral sense means that even their dismissal and refutation by authority sources only increases their spread in the target population.
“Of course the governments going to deny they made the corona virus! They aren’t stupid.”
“Of course scientists would say that, they need grant money.”
All the ideas that grow from the root of this tree fail at scale.
Malicious actors are beyond the scope of this axiom for example - they don’t care about being defeated in argument- they just want to let vulnerable people know they exist, and then have them fall into their ideological orbit.
Competition over information networks only drives the news cycle effect - a market adapting to target the weakest link the human Fight or flight response, over giving better quality news.