the_millenial_falcon

Can we reverse the trend of misinformation fueling partisan division, or is our democracy as we know it in its death bed?

I would argue that the things you describe here may always be a problem but could be mitigated with education. As flawed humans, we have biases but we can be trained on how to handle them and even invent techniques to do so like double blind studies in the sciences for example. I think people just need to be taught from a young age on how not to fall into these traps.

Okay, so let me follow up with this then. There is a perception that media literacy may actually be more of an issue for older generations who didn’t grow up with the internet and may not be as good at detecting misinformation or untrustworthy sources of information online in general. Is this just a perception, or is there any data to back this up? If so, it’s easy enough to include this as part of a child’s standard curriculum, but how do we reach the older generations?