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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Setting aside Musk’s politics and public behaviour, anyone who thinks suppressing misinformation on social media is straightforward is delusional. It’s an incredibly difficult problem.
Scientific progress relies on unrelenting criticism of the status quo. And in fields like psychology that already suffer from a replication crisis (most of the classic studies taught for decades have been discredited), there’s almost no such thing as firmly established consensus. But there are institutions that have an interest in suppressing dissent, and which can make plausible arguments that dissenting theories inflict harm.
https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/elon...the-crisis?s=w
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I don't think anyone is advocating for the suppression of information that could be credible. I think what people are against is misinformation that comes from selective quoting, removing context, etc., and isn't backed up with any compelling evidence. And we should be moving to discredit those types of misinformation.