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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDAVOS launches information site to counter misinformation on social media
This is getting interesting: Davos elite billionaires concerned about disinformation... "You don't know who you can believe".
In Davos, theres a launch of a new social media platform called W to counter the misinformation on other social media platforms. Heres part of their introductory video at the debut event. They tout actual verification and no bots, and being hosted on European servers.
Link to tweet
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Timothy Snyder
Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny/
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DAVOS launches information site to counter misinformation on social media (Original Post)
jmbar2
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OC375
(492 posts)1. Appropriate music
sop
(17,650 posts)2. What a novel concept: unbiased and honest reporting of the facts.
Isn't that what we used to expect from the "Free Press" before Davos billionaires acquired, consolidated and ruined it?
Fiendish Thingy
(22,254 posts)3. Good- now ban X and Facebook