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Social media can in fact be made better: Research shows it is possible to reward users for sharing accurate information instead of misinformation (theconversation.com)
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[–] swansea@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone keeps talking about mis and dis information, while carefully neglecting to talk about the most important question: who defines what is and isn’t “good information”???? Anytime someone says it’s “the science” or what’s legal then you can be sure they have never read or even heard of history.

This last period will be taught in the future as the dark period of journalism, information sharing, and freedom in our current so called “democracy”.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

It'd probably only be applicable for a very few issues that would have wide consensus in the scientific community. The ones that come to mind are vaccines and global warming. But if you only go by very broad consensus items like that, it won't necessarily be very impactful overall. But thats probably good to not risk an incorrect assessment.