Howard Rheingold on Nostr: In the 1990s, I thought the answer to the badinfo-misinfo-disinfo flood that search ...

In the 1990s, I thought the answer to the badinfo-misinfo-disinfo flood that search engines made possible was literacy -- teaching people how to detect badinfo and find good info. I first blogged about "Crap Detection 101" in 2009: https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/crap-detection-101-3227013.php

and my 2012 book, Net Smart, was my effort to stimulate social media literacy, including crap detection

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262526135/net-smart/

Now, I'm not so sanguine. Literacy has lost the arms race to ai-enhanced computational microtargetted mis/disinfo