RE: Psychological 'Vaccine' to 'Inoculate' People from Accepting 'Fake News'
This is a pretty interesting idea, thanks for sharing! However as a bit of constructive criticism, it would have been nice to hear more about your own thoughts on it, especially as it related to Steemit if that'd interest you 😇
Most interesting is that this tactic seems to have been used for a long time without this kind of metaphorical framing as inoculation. It's interesting to see how it works and also scary how successfully we can be manipulated.
A further question could be, is there a way to disrupt the inoculation completely? Or in other words, how can we protect ourselves from inoculation as manipulation?
A thought of Steemit: I see a lot of spurious claims and information here, maybe the anti-censorship bent of Steemit introduces some of this inoculation (read: contrasting information) organically? Because there's a lot of good stuff here too.
Thanks again 🙏 👍
Indeed, it comes down to individual thinking capacities and understanding how to think better. The inoculation can work for influencing the acceptance of truth, just as much as it can work for falsity as well. There are issues in the mainstream, and on Steemit, of an inability to think better and people spread unverifiable information as a result. The cure is ourselves, to educate, learn and evolve consciousness. :) Thanks for the feedback.