How You Can Help Fight the Information Wars:
Silicon Valley won’t save us. We’re on our own.[Kip Currier: A rallying cry to all persons passionate about and/or working on issues related to information literacy and evaluating information...]
"For now, it’s not clear what we can do, except take control of our own individual news consumption. Back in July, in fact, Ms. DiResta advised consumer restraint as the first line of defense, especially when encountering information that any passably intelligent person could guess might have been placed by a group seeking to manufacture discord.
“They’re preying on your confirmation
bias,” she said. “When content is being pushed to you, that’s something
that you want to see. So, take the extra second to do the fact-check,
even if it confirms your worst impulses about something you absolutely
hate — before you hit the retweet button, before you hit the share
button, just take the extra second.”
If
we really are on our own in this age of information warfare, as the
Senate reports suggest, there’s only one rule that can help us win it:
See something, say nothing."
