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FBL95: Sander van der Linden - Foolproof in the Age of Misinformation

The Singularity Discussion Series

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The Perniciousness of Misinformation in a Digital Environment

Online environment has shifted the information landscape presents lots of difficulties for people that I think we haven't fully digested. People are in their own echo chambers and so trying to correct stuff becomes much more difficult because it's so diffuse. Micro targeting which you know every label weapons of mass persuasion is really about the fact that companies are scraping your digital footprints and they can predict your gender, political ideology or sexuality as long as they get enough likes.

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