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It will take us 20-30 years to undo the damage wrought by the culture of #disinformation and violence In America right now.
And that's *if* we re-invest in education instead of de-funding it and the US-based digital Co's acknowledge their role as *publishers* 1/x
It will take us 20-30 years to undo the damage wrought by the culture of #disinformation and violence In America right now.
And that's *if* we re-invest in education instead of de-funding it and the US-based digital Co's acknowledge their role as *publishers* 1/x
And take stands to refuse to *publish* #disinformation and incitements to violence.
Not just the belated efforts they've taken with US election.
FB, Twitter, Google have all benefited from news deserts they *helped create* and made explicit business (and hiring) 2/x
Not just the belated efforts they've taken with US election.
FB, Twitter, Google have all benefited from news deserts they *helped create* and made explicit business (and hiring) 2/x
Decisions since at least 2012 to move into the news business to gin up more ad revenue.
But they fall back on Section 230 "we're just a platform" hand wringing when it suits them.
Play with the big dogs or get off the porch. 3/x
But they fall back on Section 230 "we're just a platform" hand wringing when it suits them.
Play with the big dogs or get off the porch. 3/x
The amount of time educators have to spend debunking blatantly false and whack conspiracy theories in the classroom (on top of COVID19 hell) is ridiculous.
It's sad when adults choose to go full QAnon but is dangerous when it corrupts impressionable minds. 4/x
It's sad when adults choose to go full QAnon but is dangerous when it corrupts impressionable minds. 4/x
And regardless of the next phases of COVID19 management efforts who is going to want to come travel and work in a country rife with sectarian violence and batshit crazy conspiracy theories run amok? 5/x
The brain drain of scientific, medical and technical professionals has already begun and will only get worse as the US is (rightly) seen from the outside as a fragile state; less developed, high economic inequality, lacking basic Healthcare, high corruption 6/x
Unequal access to food and clean water, election violence, sectarianism, fundamentalism, prone to ethnic violence?
We used to be the shining city on the hill and a refuge for people fleeing the above in their countries.
7/x
We used to be the shining city on the hill and a refuge for people fleeing the above in their countries.
7/x
Still time to turn this around and make it a brief but highly embarrassing episode.
But that window is rapidly closing: the long term effects of #disinformation go far beyond the elections. It's an economic and national security threat. 8/fin
But that window is rapidly closing: the long term effects of #disinformation go far beyond the elections. It's an economic and national security threat. 8/fin
