LuckyR wrote: ↑Yesterday, 2:43 am
All you can do is Fact Check the misinformation.
Sy Borg wrote: ↑Yesterday, 5:28 pm
That's the point. Who does the fact-checking? Who checks the fact checkers? It's not uncommon for fact-checkers to give skewed assessments based on biases either driven by ideology or money.
Do we trust politicians, media or universities - the biggest perpetrators of more manipulative misinformation?
Yes, fact-checkers can be mistaken, or deceptive. But most of them aren't, I don't think. This is getting to the issues we have these days with
trust, and whether we are prepared to believe the advice '
experts' give us.
If we can't trust anyone — and maybe we can't? — then where do we go from here? Don't we have to risk it, sometimes, and trust others? We exercise our judgement as best we can, but no one person can know everything that humans know. So sometimes, experts know what the rest of us don't.
Sometimes we should trust advisors; sometimes we *must* trust advisors?
Mo_reese wrote: ↑Yesterday, 8:44 pm
I think the bottom line is that those with the power can and will feed us misinformation and there isn't much we can do about it.
We can do our best. We can exercise judgement on the reliability of any or all advisors, but in the end we could be wrong to do so. So does that mean we should do nothing, believe nothing? Or must we do the best we can, and sometimes risk
trusting our experts and advisors?