Opinion: Will we survive the age of information disorder?

Opinion: Will we survive the age of information disorder?

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/09/19/opinion-will-we-survive-the-age-of-information-disorder/

Having weathered the COVID-19 storm, we are now on the cusp of another pandemic that is even more dangerous and insidious: a plague of misinformation. This digital contagion, which I call “information disorder,” distorts our ability to distinguish fact from fiction and right from wrong. Unlike the previous pandemic, which struck our bodies, this one infects our minds and is even harder to combat.

Sunil Mehta, a longtime Silicon Valley resident, is the co-founder of grassroots group They See Blue, which focuses on getting out the vote in the South Asian community.