The problem has far less to do with reliable methods of authentication and far more to do with social attitudes and atomization.
Not nearly enough people on either side of the ideological spectrum are going to use tools to verify a picture or video’s authenticity, because we can do that now relatively easily, and people don’t do it now. I can’t imagine people are going to trust anything that contradicts their own narratives.
For example, the people who most need to use fact-checking websites are now swearing off the use fact-checking and calling places like Snopes scams and left-wing propaganda.
We could do more good broadly for society just by being more socially involved and provide our friends, neighbors and community with better narratives to follow and better crusades to get involved with… and I can give a hint who’s keeping people going at each other’s throats so we don’t focus on the actual source of our society’s decay. They rhyme with “illionaires” and start with an M or a B.
The problem has far less to do with reliable methods of authentication and far more to do with social attitudes and atomization.
Not nearly enough people on either side of the ideological spectrum are going to use tools to verify a picture or video’s authenticity, because we can do that now relatively easily, and people don’t do it now. I can’t imagine people are going to trust anything that contradicts their own narratives.
For example, the people who most need to use fact-checking websites are now swearing off the use fact-checking and calling places like Snopes scams and left-wing propaganda.
We could do more good broadly for society just by being more socially involved and provide our friends, neighbors and community with better narratives to follow and better crusades to get involved with… and I can give a hint who’s keeping people going at each other’s throats so we don’t focus on the actual source of our society’s decay. They rhyme with “illionaires” and start with an M or a B.