The responses of technology platforms to the spread of mis/disinformation has shown the benefit in promoting accurate information.
This has led to human and material losses on both sides. Whereas, the underlying cause of this conflict is the scramble for limited land, and other resources exacerbated by climate change and the government’s failure to protect the people.The need for validation is a major motivation to identify with a community, and feel a sense of belonging and acceptance.
being taken as fact because they have the approval of a community, thereby creating a false social consensus, or clout. These are societal conditionings and trappings that are ripe for manipulated content to percolate, tear down and fracture communities.The Internet presents an endless web of information that could overwhelm users with irrelevant data.
This bias in machines makes users more vulnerable to conspiracy theories, hyper-partisan content and outright fabrication. The filter applied using algorithms leads to an inundated exposure of monolithic information that has negative effects on civic debates. Furthermore, on the basis of frequency algorithms alone, popular content, regardless of its quality or accuracy, is projected to users in an unsolicited manner, capturing their attention.
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