Summary
Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracy theories. Cancel culture. These recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multifront challenge to America's ability to distinguish face from fiction and elevate truth above false... Full description
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- "A terrible statement unless he gets away with it": Chaos and conformity have caused an epistemic crisis
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- The state of nature: tribal truth: Bias, groupthink, and the epistemic war of all against all
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- Booting reality: the rise of networked knowledge: Outsourcing reality to a social network is humankind's greatest innovation
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- The constitution of knowledge: The operating system of the reality-based community
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- Disinformation technology: the challenge of digital media: Making the online world truth-friendly is difficult but doable
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- Troll epistemology: "flood the zone with shit": Disinformation is an old enemy with new weapons and powerful friends
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- Canceling: despotism of the few: Coercive conformity is corrupting the reality-based community
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- Unmute yourself: pushing back: Defending the Constitution of Knowledge requires confidence and counter-mobilization.