 Interestingly, in the next two years WEF says "disinformation and misinformation" are the world's largest risks. The Fediverse is a great tool in the toolbox to help with that. Unlike so much media, and social media, it is fundamentally constructed to not be a manipulated channel. We really need to get those CEOs and billionaires and politicians that hang around in#Davos to understand that, and help finance building it out. After all, they just agreed it's a real problem! 3 comments
@katanova ... and we can! We can't, to a large extent, on other social media platforms, or other means of mass communication, say, TV or Radio. @J12t The important point is whether or not we do. I think that it's important to analyze the motivations of people who seek to cut off fedi connections. I've seen a lot of drama within the past year that's rooted in self-interested actors seeking to manipulate the network. I think a good question for network operators to ask themselves when confronted with loud voices demanding action is "what am I afraid they'll do if I don't do what they want?" |
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It's still up to us, the people who use the platform, to recognize manipulative people on our platform, and mitigate their manipulation.