Ah, the good old days of the internet – a utopian paradise where everyone was kind, respectful, and definitely not arguing about Hitler. Or was it? A recent study published in Nature has some surpr…
Why would you put the word factuality in air quotes? Regardless, it’s statistical trends over time that would be interesting to see. There’s always going to be individual examples of everything under the sun when millions of different people are involved in something.
Why would you put the word factuality in air quotes
John Titor is not factual.
Regardless, it’s statistical trends over time that would be interesting to see. There’s always going to be individual examples of everything under the sun when millions of different people are involved in something.
As a user of '90s internet I can assure you things have not changed much. “Don’t feed the trolls” is an old saying and people are no worse at detecting baloney than they used to be… All that changed is that more users are on the internet now than in the '90s and 00’s. “One case” back then was a much larger percentage of the population than “one case” today. If we assume “x% of people spread lies” then the number of them on the internet has indeed increased. But I’d wager the percentage is around the same.
People always look back on the past with very rose-colored glasses.
Toxicity isn’t the only measure of health. Now do factuality.
The medium changes but people are still people.
Look up John Titor if you want a sample of what “factuality” was like on the early internet.
Why would you put the word factuality in air quotes? Regardless, it’s statistical trends over time that would be interesting to see. There’s always going to be individual examples of everything under the sun when millions of different people are involved in something.
John Titor is not factual.
As a user of '90s internet I can assure you things have not changed much. “Don’t feed the trolls” is an old saying and people are no worse at detecting baloney than they used to be… All that changed is that more users are on the internet now than in the '90s and 00’s. “One case” back then was a much larger percentage of the population than “one case” today. If we assume “x% of people spread lies” then the number of them on the internet has indeed increased. But I’d wager the percentage is around the same.
People always look back on the past with very rose-colored glasses.
I wouldn’t say John Titor was widely believed outside the Art Bell types.