We desperately need a way to defend against online propaganda
Found on Ars Technica on Monday, 26 June 2017
Humans are more vulnerable than ever to propaganda, and we have no clue what to do about it.
The problem is that most people weren't raised to expect that their social spaces would be full of bots, blabbing the results of simple algorithms and infecting human conversations with misdirection. Rarely do audiences on Twitter and Facebook pause to wonder where their information is coming from.
The intelligence of a group is inversely proportional to the number of its members. Propagandists of all times knew this and is has not changed; the Internet just makes the groups bigger.