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It was announced just yesterday that meta is planning to incorporate community notes as well using open source X algorithms. Ostensibly it could become the state-of-the-art bandaid solution.
In my opinion, community notes systems are a good step, but they don't give much space for real deliberation around news. 

Great points. There's nobody more postmodernist than the religious person who fights this proxy war. 
Taking a term from the academic/youtuber Justin Sledge: post-theism is the removal of the existence question from the practice of a religion. While religious practice can be meaningful in a number of dimensions, including spiritual, cultural, ethnic and sociological, the practice should not require that a religious person sacrifice their philosophical integrity. 
 

Right on. I'm sure there's a sense in which you're right; I'm not a historian, but history is full of counterexamples so we both have a partial picture probably. All I can say for sure is that as a person living in 2025, our media is problematic in a unique way. The amount of social media news consumed is at an all-time high, and social media is on average less accurate about facts than professional news. What's ironic is that the internet and related communication tech means there really is a huge potential for democratic, productive media; more than any ... (read more)

1. Thanks so much for these resources, interesting!!
2. Im not saying my only goal is to combat misinformation, but that logical discourse combats misinformation (as well as hegemonic propaganda) as a matter of course.

Hello :) 

I'm here fundamentally to get some constructive criticism on how to improve internet discourse. This came about when I was writing a journalistic piece on the recent congressional subcommittee, and trying to get to the bottom of the lab-leak evidence as part of the research. 

In short, I'm floating the idea of a crowd-sourced and written, peer-reviewed medium on subjects like conspiracy theories (AKA: revisionist history that's still political). With a solid framework, gatekeeping could be avoided and real people (not just professional in... (read more)