Re:Tackling the misinformation epidemic with “In Event of Mo...
by thu2111 on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:53PM
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It'd have no effect at all.
We know this because that's exactly what ClimateGate was. A huge pile of hacked emails leaked, and they included climate scientists saying things like:
- The world had stopped warming and they couldn't explain that
- They were mixing and matching data to ensure graphs showed temperature's going up
- They were working to prevent papers that disagreed with them from being published
- They were deleting emails and other material to avoid having to release them
etc
Guess what - they denied everything, the emails were roundly denounced by a friendly media, and nothing happened to any of the people involved.
Really, you don't need deepfakes to create climatology skepticism. Climatologists are very good at creating it all by themselves.
We know this because that's exactly what ClimateGate was. A huge pile of hacked emails leaked, and they included climate scientists saying things like:
- The world had stopped warming and they couldn't explain that
- They were mixing and matching data to ensure graphs showed temperature's going up
- They were working to prevent papers that disagreed with them from being published
- They were deleting emails and other material to avoid having to release them
etc
Guess what - they denied everything, the emails were roundly denounced by a friendly media, and nothing happened to any of the people involved.
Really, you don't need deepfakes to create climatology skepticism. Climatologists are very good at creating it all by themselves.