Prof Peter Hotez MD (Medical Demented) think vaxxers are like critics of Islamism: Tweet
I’m quite shaken by what happened to Salman Rushdie and view this through a lens of what could happen to US scientists from those who believe what’s on Fox News or in WSJ Op and other Murdoch holdings, or in other conservative press, anti-vax or anti-GMO websites is actually true
‘Fake news’ poses corrosive existential threat to democracy – study
Influence of fake news is undermining public trust in democratic institutions, regardless of whether people believe it or not, new research finds.
Online ‘fake news’ is an existential threat to democracy – not because most people believe bogus content, but because of the corrosive effect it has on trust among citizens and their faith in democratic institutions representing them, according to a new study.
Since the UK’s Brexit Referendum and the election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016, fake news has become a significant source of concern with most commentators worrying about the uptake of false information by the consumers of fake news.
Surveys among voters also show widespread concern about fake news on social media platforms such as Facebook, but the real danger to democracy lies in people’s views that fake news is influential – regardless of whether that belief is true.
This means that the bogus stories do not even have to be believed by those who read them to have negative effects on democratic institutions. Instead, the fear that others will believe fake news is already sufficient to cause problematic damage to the democratic process.
The conclusion is even more exceptionally dumb:
The study notes that before Internet use became widespread, citizens had a relatively limited range of information sources such as newspapers and TV stations – creating greater information overlap, more ‘shared experiences’ and, in turn, less reason to worry about the beliefs of others.
“citizens had a relatively limited range of information sources such as newspapers and TV stations”
i.e. controlled “news” and no access to alternate information sources or points of view.
niceguy
August 17, 2022 4:03 pm
More most secure election insecurity:
According to the Washington Post, “There is growing concern among experts that officials sympathetic to Trump’s claims of vote-rigging could undermine election security in the name of protecting it.”
Prof Peter Hotez MD (Medical Demented) think vaxxers are like critics of Islamism:
Tweet
Mysticism has and still is infecting some famous physicists (Small Brains Considered – 7).
More insaner bigly nonsensical garbage:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/fake-news-poses-corrosive-existential-threat-to-democracy-study
The conclusion is even more exceptionally dumb:
People had more shared experiences?
“citizens had a relatively limited range of information sources such as newspapers and TV stations”
i.e. controlled “news” and no access to alternate information sources or points of view.
More most secure election insecurity:
https://www.kktv.com/2022/08/16/trump-allies-arranged-copying-voting-machine-data-battleground-states-report-says/
The election is secure except when pro Trump people manipulate the machines.
Then it’s very unsecure.
Security is fragile.
Anything new on that petition I signed (it might have been on this site) to name the next/current Grand Solar Minimum the Eddy Minimum?