COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Mon Mar 16 14:22:02 UTC 2020

On 16/Mar/20 16:04, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:

>
>
> There is no other way to do that information filterning now. Nobody
> has any authority of knowing better than others.
>
> MUAs filters yes. (mail user agent)
>
> Look at all data you receive, identify patterns, then act. That's all
> one can do now.
>
> There are easily identifiable patterns.
>
> Develop trust.

I'd say "develop brains" :-).

A lot of people are only too happy to be led, they want to believe
anything that comes out of a leader's mouth, especially if that leader
said it on TV, or on Twitter.

Worse, a lot of people want to be "the 1st" to show that they knew
something before anyone else, so they can come off as "the source of
truth". That is why the moment someone receives a fake "official memo"
from the Ministry of Education of some country saying that all school
lessons have been banned on a Sunday following the Friday the president
gave an official statement about the state of the Coronavirus in said
country, they can't take 60 seconds to see that the date on that letter
is 2 days before the president gave his statement, nor can they reason
as to how such a letter could be sent after the president never
mentioned a thing about shutting schools down during his official
presser, without a copy of it being on the government's official web
site or announced by the national news broadcaster.

We see folk potentially becoming presidents because they spent more
money and made the loudest noise. Nobody has time, anymore, to listen to
the issues and make up their own minds. They just want to be told what
to think based on who retweets the loudest.

People want to believe anything. People want to share everything. That's
one of the biggest consequences of the ubiquity of the Internet today,
and the Coronavirus has just amplified what has already been happening
for a few years now.

Mark.