Monday, November 28, 2022

Breaking Down the Market for Misinformation — Gonzalo Cisternas and Jorge Vásquez

Assumes (tacitly) 1) that objective "fact-checking" is possible to achieve and 2) that a majority of consumers of information will deem the so-called fact-checking credible. 

Both of these implicit assumptions seem questionable evidential  in light of mistakes and anecdotally (based on responses when sending people to purported fact-checking sites).

New words addressing this have become internet memes, like "truthiness" and "gaslighting."

Liberty Street Economics
Breaking Down the Market for Misinformation
Gonzalo Cisternas and Jorge Vásquez

8 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Gaslighting isn't new.

mike norman said...

And frankly, gaslighting has become so overused, it's ridiculous.

Matt Franko said...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

It’s a figure of speech colloquialism….

Matt Franko said...

“ New words addressing this”

They are figures of speech more than “new words”…

You guys should always refer to these as figures of speech… then your reader would be tipped off and less likely to take them literally or even worse reify them…

Like “money”… monetarists think the figure of speech “money” is real… this reification error is the main problem with those dumb people…

Matt Franko said...

Here’s Bill from the other day:

“ Jumping the shark – refers to the resort to ridiculous overstatement or stunt to catch attention when the underlying message and performance has lost its sheen.”

Again does not identify “jumping the shark” initially as a figure of speech like Tom does not with “gaslighting” here... interesting…

Both recipients of same/similar academic methodology…

Peter Pan said...

Some art degree dude just got Matt Franko'd. It was brutal.

Matt Franko said...

Jumping the shark is from the 70s sitcom Happy Days and gaslighting was the title of a 1944 movie…

Both from the entertainment industry… hmmmm….

Peter Pan said...

Popular culture reflects and produces memes.