User talk:LGreg/sandbox/Approaches to Knowledge (LG seminar 2020/21)/Seminar 18/Truth/Truth in social networks

Thank you for this well-written article! I find it very inspiring and there are a few ideas that spawn in my mind after reading. Truth sometimes can be a construct, subjected to different narratives, especially in the current post-truth era. Will social media, as a tool for interaction and bringing people to social issues, drive us/our society back to the truth or further from it in the future? With the way that even AI, ideas that are developed from algorithms and layers of deep machine learning, can be biased, is it right to assume that the subjective truth can never be attained in certain aspects of society? How will the lack of truth damage people's confidence in democracy? Once again thanks for your thought-provoking article. XxXdiehardbascloverXxX (discuss • contribs) 02:08, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your thoughtful questions! Truth in social media is I hope going to be more present with better fake news algorithms systems that are supposed to take them down and should be less biased as the content find on internet is becoming much more diverse but fake news are never going to completely disappear. Regarding to social issues, I find it quite odd that nowadays social issues has been linked to our social media where you can see someone posting a picture of his dog and then a minute later about a crisis in some country! I think that a new type of interconnection has to exist for new generations to come to feel connected to social issues such as The Ethos network that is pushing towards that direction. The lack of truth indeed will affect people's confidence in democracy because it's becoming harder to believe in certain sayings of any political figure as you can find multiple sources accusing X of anything. People are losing track from the really important matters by being overwhelmed by so many informations not always stating the truth. People are loosing confidence in democracy but democracy itself is suffering from communautarism created by social media, provoking unbalanced power and impoverishing the government's authority. ReasonWithKnowledge (discuss • contribs) 11:00, 10 November 2020 (UTC)