What concrete steps can be taken to combat misinformation on social media? This problem is hardly an issue on this platform, but it certainly is elsewhere. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

DandomRude@lemmy.world · 6 days ago

What concrete steps can be taken to combat misinformation on social media? This problem is hardly an issue on this platform, but it certainly is elsewhere. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 5 days ago

Then information hygiene went to shit. Now it’s a rare oasis in the current landscape.

It went to shit because people started treating low quality sources like Wikipedia as “a rare oasis”.

The vast majority of the time, Wikipedia is not the source of misinformation/disinformation in this world.

Are you sure about that?

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · edit-2 5 days ago

…You’re kidding, right?

I’m looking around the information landscape around me, and Wikipedia is not even in the top 1000 of disinformation peddlers. They make mistakes, but they aren’t literally lying and propagandizing millions of people on purpose.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 5 days ago

and Wikipedia is not even in the top 1000 of disinformation peddlers.

And you determined this how?

They make mistakes, but they aren’t literally lying and propagandizing millions of people on purpose.

And you determined this how?