PinnedDisinformation and Trust 1: The Rise of Disinformation and the Erosion of TrustI’ve decided to focus on a huge problem in the next phase of my work. The problems of Disinformation versus the promise of Trust. The rise of social media as the dominant source of news for many people, and as the growth medium for memes, has led to a vast…Disinformation2 min readDisinformation2 min read
May 25Disinformation and Trust 5: The future we can build.Let’s talk about what it would take to come up with a solution. I learned from my time working on Gmail the value of federated media. No one owns email. Billions and billions of messages are exchanged every day over protocols established initially in the 1980s and iterated upon to…Disinformation4 min readDisinformation4 min read
May 24Disinformation and Trust 4: We can solve these problems!We live in a time of very very interesting changes. In particular the rise of Crypto and blockchain based solutions in many different facets of the online world, has given us an opportunity. Just as the web as a whole was a disruptive change in how people gather information and…Disinformation2 min readDisinformation2 min read
May 22Disinformation and Trust 3: This is going to get so much worse!I shudder to think of how we have such a widespread problem of online addiction, considering how poor the experience is compared to how compelling it will be. In my despairing moments, I believe that we are a world of Cyphers from The Matrix, who would choose the Matrix even…Disinformation4 min readDisinformation4 min read
May 19Disinformation and Trust 2: How did we get here?As I’ve been noticing what’s happened in the last 15 years, it occurs to me that we are seeing a negative feedback loop, leading toward a pretty nasty version of some kind of singularity. Consider Social media has either replaced traditional journalism or become the amplifier / filter through which…Disinformation4 min readDisinformation4 min read
