The Problem of Fake News - Fact Checking

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Fact checking seems like a solution to the problem of fake news, but it actually can cause more polarization. You get the idea over and over again that we solve short term problems may create other problems on balance sheets later. In the case tha hou an tene freman, technologyh brought so much attention to with regard to the attention harvesting and directing economy,. It's fair to say that it probably was not facebook or gogles goal to create the type of effects that they had. Those were unintended externalities. They were second order effects. But they were trying to solve problems, right? Like let's solve the problem if we're google, of organizing the wrld's information

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this edited version along with the unedited version.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.