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tv   Frag den Lesch  Deutsche Welle  October 1, 2020 7:45am-8:01am CEST

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so. most of the information on facebook isn't necessarily credible. young people don't come here to buy magazines they buy no magazines newspapers no more anything. who are my actual 10 years young men around young and not know me but you should know. the key is proportions have a factor of 2.64755 that of the pair met squared this gives a 7 the number of virginity we find pi again and the speed of light so who designed this mysterious chaos compares. our company to bias as help us filter in part to avoid cognitive overload. these mental watch talks are not so much essential as they are never going to. get on the internet and the manner of filtering is quickly seen as control propaganda and
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concealment. buys on. this information market was once regulated by gatekeepers by guardians of the threshold but usual which is to say journalists politicians academics and a whole series of people who were trusted to disseminate information in public spaces as opposed to just. the internet anyone can express their opinions to the world directly and that's good. but in the nixon era we were lucky that there were honest players within a society of the spectacle. this is it that this bit that was really in there members today there isn't even a spectacle today it's a society of about a spectacle. based soon you draw least when you have. any journalist academic or writer who has tried to expose or criticize these things
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that any given moment down themselves immediately accused of being part of a conspiracy. when things go viral we really check the content against expert testimony before believing that. our cognitive biases discourage us from investing the time and effort. by a lot of skill in the past when we. in the book though we knew that someone had taken the trouble to write it edit it and to get it published studies because of this it was of the studio as a process that if you're posting on social networks is something you can do with one hand on your smartphone on a bus or another to visit. again you said that the 1st battle the battle for attention has been won. we're in an attention economy where the amount of brain time you can bring to your site is monetized the available information available has greatly increased since the early 2000 us feel. the need
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to see these on the condition is and you do need it and you know what they say about men with small hands. if you have to speak very loudly and one way of speaking loudly in the information economy is to make outrageous statements you know the 2nd amendment people may be there is that our. deregulated information market also means tension radicalised discourse and the uncomfortable feeling of living in a society where everyone is shouting it because. it's clear that political debates in the us but not only in the us tend towards hysteria it's just easy. nothing we can better than playing on public opinion and for instance disseminating accusations about politicians sex
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life or secret photos the futile so even if these aren't published the damage is done the fuses i made with my live feed of political fight seem to have become battles for attention more than for conviction. if you can fool people also for political ends i think the electoral process is unfortunately very similar to misleading and deceiving people. that it's. traditionally journalists whether watchdogs have democracies. but can they hold on to this role in a virtual world and if not who will replace them. when it was your priests anonymous were not. and also thugs we are well romantics just human beings idealists who want to see a better future. as a young computer entrepreneur and a proud member of anonymous a movement striving to reclaim freedom of expression in the internet era he agreed
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to be interviewed without a mask. suki diskin some people saying that you don't need your communications to be private because you're not a criminal is similar to saying you don't need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. a moment she's. anyone conclude. you can't return with. the dog where there's a place many different codes for her to for research so they buy a game. it's not a crime to have value so that's where the dark web is an attempt to regain independence and freedom of communication between humans. sure russia to. the international russian t.v. network financed by the kremlin post all sorts of conspiracy theories originating in very ideological circles critically mucky delusional russia to the.
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r t has often shown journalism that wins awards. she pulls. them that maybe proves that the truth is not necessarily to be found in mainstream media . you want to sweetness trust the media the press or even scientific experts on certain issues. politically motivated misinformation and disinformation further amplify feelings of mistrust and insecurity. uni it's like a hobby if someone internationalism out collecting the champagne corks they can devote hours and hours to it i believe that here we are dealing with people who've gone crazy about their hobby. could you do it you can prove to glisten conspiracy theories doesn't mean that they don't exist. it's called your move your
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when we do it arouses extraordinarily violent reactions see it will go over insults and name calling to intimidation it actual threats work of element us. conversing with people you don't know one line who often use pseudonyms amplifies the violence of these exchanges it doesn't take long before you compare the other to hitler or a nazi as well. that when charlie hebdo was attacked in france conspiracy theories were online just hours later the days of january 7th on the day of the attack i logged more than 20 different conspiracy theories about what they would you call broke 4 days later they were already more than 100 traduce so argument of you and you can prove. these i.q. valving myself man people who feel as if their integrity of this attack 20 also feel their fundamental belief that the world is
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a safe place has been champion i'm only down on the security. descend formation can maintain a state of denial it gives us the impression that we have regained a certain amount of control passed allowing us to keep our faith and our strongest convictions. if we listen to the media we end up hating ourselves as muslims and each other. prefer i prefer to believe in conspiracy theories i found sources but i can't cite them i'm a muslim and i don't want to believe those people can kill in the name of god is what. scholars exit terrorists have a psychological intuition about what their actions provoke in people. to kill physical labor how this kind of terror shakes the fundamental belief that one needs to have to live in our societies the confidence that our lives will not be menaced every day. at least will. the loss of control by us can have
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a direct impact on other types of beliefs such as on the belief in conspiracies. by conforming you can give in to an idea and feel that it has always been your truth but big like a revelation remember. last year infant sure spirity theories can be consoling i don't like this reality so find another and flee. we don't have a true problem it's a trust problem. to paraphrase parentally need to know it takes a foul sometimes more effort to reestablish trust them to shake it. instant access to all of human knowledge has paradoxically brought us to a place where we have to vote in less and less time to being one of informed and fewer people are paying heed to scientific fact. or not as the data for we all have cell phones but few people really understand how they work it's a bit like magic of the vision of weak seeds of almost all mixing up serious facts
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with crazy information to excite certain natural tendencies in our minds just because we say what's the story about giants they discovered skeleton really were even if we don't believe it we want to see the fake photos of who kicks it up. if we must be wary of what we call the authorities all white coat effect you appear on t.v. in a white lab coat and all of a sudden you have more authority. if it comes from a site no one has heard of but ask yourself there are other sites talking about this if it's unbelievable spectacular news in just one side is talking about it suspicious. spirit series if you're me to state that there's a limo should teapot orbiting mars or pluto well then it's up to you to prove it it's enough for me to say no there's not i can't prove that it doesn't exist of us but both of it is true that. however there is adapted conspiracy theories leave it to others to refute their beliefs planting doubt is enough for
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them. the belief that humans could have rubbed shoulders with dinosaurs is easier to swallow than the fact that mice and elephants have a common ancestor the creationist movement uses this belief to joyfully discredit the evolution of the species some creationists have made it into universities and swear in the name of science that badly photoshop photos of storks could be terrible. to hell with science films and cartoons loved the idea of rubbing shoulders with dinosaurs. but you know soon as there's a division of knowledge i have to trust my colleagues otherwise i'd have to always repeat every experiment which is impossible. which fulfill that you feel i think we need to recognize differences and constantly distinguish we need to reestablish hierarchies where there is a tendency to level all sources of information onto the same plane of. information market revolution has to be accompanied by an education revolution to develop truly
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critical minds that. we all have cognitive biases they are present within us no matter how intelligent or educated we are the. but you point out extinguish the part of our brains that loves to discover things that is curious and loves to grow . and i know it exists exist. perhaps the internet paradox is just a pendulum effect between knowledge and belief there are young people who are creatively reinventing networks of qualitatively valuable knowledge but for now with our cognitive bias says only the vicar of our critical minds can protect us from the trap of the democracy of the gullible. or.
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her. limited that is the spirit 30 years ago when germany was really unified in october 1900 by the time the economic disparity between east and west was huge. today how of things change for people to cause a country how have companies. made in germany. 30 minutes on.
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