What Is a Humane Rewiring?

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In order to have a functioning brain, you need to have locality and specific like connections betweens theres there's real structure. It's as if we wired up the current social media networked global brain for mass social p lesy. Imagine wiring up every neuron to every other neurons. And what would you expect except epileptic seizures? We don't want a world where we fail over into social epilepsy, seizure and chaos. Just notice what your brain looks for and tries to search for as solutions.

Disinformation researchers have been fighting two battles over the last decade: one to combat and contain harmful information, and one to convince the world that these manipulations have an offline impact that requires complex, nuanced solutions. Camille François, Chief Information Officer at the cybersecurity company Graphika and an affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, believes that our common understanding of the problem has recently reached a new level. In this interview, she catalogues the key changes she observed between studying Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and helping convene and operate the Election Integrity Partnership watchdog group before, during and after the 2020 election. “I'm optimistic, because I think that things that have taken quite a long time to land are finally landing, and because I think that we do have a diverse set of expertise at the table,” she says. Camille and Tristan Harris dissect the challenges and talk about the path forward to a healthy information ecosystem.