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Episode 173: The Disinformation Society w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware
QAA Podcast
Why Are We So Vulnerable in Face of Fake News?
We've never been more exposed to opportunities to learn about the world. Why were we so vulnerable in the face of all that information? We are conditioned not to really want to know much about the world, because it's enough for all sorts of reasonsmuch more kind of fun and enjoyable and and easy not to now. The cost of being wrong is so little that the cost of losing your community, your friends and so forth over a very polarizing issue is much higher. And there's a cultural side to it. If you look at the history of propaganda, and advertising and people like burneys. There're all these things that should show us that there's this kind of multi decade
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