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Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions to Silicon Valley's Disinformation Problem
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April 2018
Silicon Valley is facing a disinformation problem that is poisoning the infosphere, creating filter bubbles and echo chambers, feeding polarization and entrenchment, and resulting in the misuse of data to shape political debates through military-grade psychological operations, manipulation, and propaganda. All the above are symptoms of disinformation and we need to get to the root causes if we want to cure them. This SNCR 2020 article sheds light on the root causes of the disinformation problem that is poisoning the infosphere.
