
Countering Online Disinformation with David Clark
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Are We Losing the Ability to Detect Parody and Satisfaction?
There's a lot of literature on how people deal with rebuttl, if you label something as wrong, what do they do? And a lot of evidenceis they double down on their belief. This is not technology. It's a much deeper issue than that. I think there's an interesting test in this space, which is, have we lost the ability to detect parody and satire? i would just quote something called poe's law,. without a clear indication of the author's intent, every parody of extreme view can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied. The sky who tied 50 helium balloons to a lawn chair and went up in the air to
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