RE: Facebook 'Fact-Checking' Failure as it Flags Factual Information About U.N. Plan for Increasing Western Immigration
The best solve for the information problem - root your thinking in principles. This will cut a huge swath through a wide variety of problems without the need for reliable facts.
Did the baker who refused to make the gay cake wrongfully discriminate, or is it a choice made valid by religious observation?
It’s irrelevant - individuals have the natural law right to associate or not associate with anyone for any reason, as long as they’re not committing an act of unjustified force or fraud.
Is so-and-so politician actually corrupt, or are the rumors an attempt by the opposing party to oust him?
Doesn’t matter - government is slavery and thus unacceptable under any conditions.
It’s not a solve for every problem - sometimes we need sound factual information to apply a principled approach - but in my experience, it’ll probably clear the table of 80% of the public and private issues, if not more.
I prefer to have my principles based in thinking, and I hope most other people too. We had enough religious zealots in humanity's history, thank you very much.
The rest of the comment illustrated my intent, which was not to suggest blindly adhering to religious dogma. When I said root your thinking in principles, it was implied that I meant your thinking in regard to matters such as those in my examples, and those which companies like facebook could have a hand in obfuscating.
Obviously critical thought must precede recignition of valid principles; and invalid “principles” (such as those promoted by the popular religions) are, in fact, not principles at all.
Indeed, principles of truth that are reasoned as a guide to keep one on a path that rejects falsity.