Do you know that misinformation and disinformation are now global threats equal to extreme weather events and armed conflicts?

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NyriasNeo@reddit

Obviously. Half of the population will believe nothing. Half of the population will believe anything. 100% of the population will be screwed.

This is an important warning. This is faked news. Ground truth, except the one you see with your own eyes in real life, does not exist anymore.

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artikzen@reddit

Don't forget the 10% (middle class) that will follow the most beneficial truth, the 1% (wealthy bunch) that will build the truth and the 0.1% (the billionaires) that will decide what is true.

I'm quite happy to be part of the 0.0001% (residue) that still knows how to count 2+2.

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NyriasNeo@reddit

"I'm quite happy to be part of the 0.0001% (residue) that still knows how to count 2+2."

Are you? Ignorance is bliss. Are the religious nutcases who believe the universe is 6000 years old and everything is decided by an old man in the sky happier than us who see all the problems in the world?

Knowledge can be a curse. Just ask any climate scientist.

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Surya_Singh_7441@reddit (OP)

Well, examine even that which you see with your own eyes. That's what the second article on the main sub explores.

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Strange-Patience5539@reddit

Following to understand this better.

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Vaibhavshali13@reddit

All this is deliberately spread to prove one's point or issue right.Our intentions are not right to know the truth or stop the lie, no matter how much internal harm we are suffering.

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Shoddy-Childhood-511@reddit

Nah.

We've always lived with miss-information, what do you call religion, politics, etc? We'll probably always have rampant miss-information in the future too.

We could discuss freedom of speech vs freedom of reach of course. I'm unsure what this really means though: Authorities impose some information and miss-information above some scale & speed, like maybe mass broadcasts ala youtube but writing publicly or conversing privately still have strong freedom of speech. It'll fail many good cases, like say parody music like Afroman's case.

If we "fix" miss-information then we'll end up having the "good information" endorse more consumption, more babies, and even more exploitation. Aka the "good information" winds up being extremely bad.

All natural ecosystems need some negative feedbacks like predation. If you want a sustainable humanity, then you'll need conflicts between human groups too: Nation A poisons nation B's cattle. Nation B sabotages nation C's refinery. etc. In this, it's helpful if nations have irreconcilable differences in religion, economic system, etc.

We've two real problems: 1st, how do you stop any nation from "winning" and becoming an empire? 2nd, how do you keep this required conflict a permanent cold war that focuses upon reducing others externalities, but avoids being a hot war over expansion?

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muddaFUDa@reddit

Ecosystem Collapse - 1%

Do people not know what ecosystems do???

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BTRCguy@reddit

This. Right?

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madcoins@reddit

They system the eco

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refusemouth@reddit

It's like when you have a stereo system, but it echoes off of the walls.

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loralailoralai@reddit

lol it also says 2% for ‘natural resource shortage’ too. Which…. Is seriously underestimating what many parts of the world are facing right now

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BTRCguy@reddit

That's because people are being mis/disinformed...

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BTRCguy@reddit

I imagine those top five items are fairly constant and merely jockey for position, at least for western civilization.

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guyseeking@reddit

Source of disinformation pegs disinformation as equal threat to the physical annihilation of the substrate of life.

The irony is palpable

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Ih8weebs@reddit

I thought this comment would be higher, but that just furthers the point.

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Rupan_the_III@reddit

just close your eyes

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Few_Fish8771@reddit

misinformation was always an existential threat, the difference now is the power to spread misinformation has both been made international and democratized, changing both the incentive structure and the entry barriers for spreading misinformation.

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Mean-Bank3522@reddit

So as always the culprit warning on threat

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Vegetaman916@reddit

I do know that, yes. Did a video about that quite a few months ago.

And this is also why I stopped posting to this sub, after their denial of that fact and their move to weaponize such content accusations.

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Misinformation and disinformation in second position in the two-year timeframe, below Geoeconomic confrontation. The massive population of the world now has access to internet which is mostly flooded with misinformation. This is a global threat without a solution because the diagnosis is wrong. I have provided a link to an article on the psychological aspect of this problem and a potential solution.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1scrufn/do_you_know_that_misinformation_and/oed86n4/

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Lailokos@reddit

They are greater threats. They are the reason we don't understand all the other threats. And the worst bit is not all the worse misinformation is intentional. It's structural instead. If the news only has 22 minutes to share stories, if every article must be <3 minutes read, if more papers are published than ever and yet professors have LESS time to read them all...our information suffers, and everyone who is making a product will say it's 'optimization.'

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Surya_Singh_7441@reddit (OP)

Newspapers are advertising platforms they publish news which fit their advertising clients. And it is same for every other platform. Internet boom is more of a misinformation boom.

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Karambamamba@reddit

Can you link the paper please?

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Surya_Singh_7441@reddit (OP)

Here it is: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2026/digest/

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Karambamamba@reddit

Thanks so much!

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Tiny-tim6942@reddit

I've got better tomorrow and old numbers.

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Surya_Singh_7441@reddit (OP)

Misinformation and disinformation in second position in the two-year timeframe, below Geoeconomic confrontation. The massive population of the world now has access to internet which is mostly flooded with misinformation. This is a global threat without a solution because the diagnosis is wrong. I have provided a link to an article on the psychological aspect of this problem and potential solution.