What makes false information so effective?

 

What makes false information so effective?

The reason what boosts the effectiveness of fake information is that data is delivered to the audience, which has certain attitudes for that kind of thing. So the "will to believe" makes the information effectively and that kind of thing are shared very easily. This makes social media so effective tool for sharing the faked information. 

If there are many supporters for some information, that would increase the trust for the information. The people, who are following their leader in this kind of case are very aggressive, which would deny the will to resist or fix the errors in the faked news. 

We are facing the situation, that the people who would not able to see or make large-scale things have the same chance to get the same sized audience with some other more well-known people. And the thing is that the trollers would choose their social media mates by choosing well-known people, and they hope to get very much contacts by using those people as the "gate". 

Centers for social networks can be used as a tool in information operation

There is a game on the internet, which is known as the "Kevin Bacon" game (the Oracle of bacon (theoracleofbacon.com) (1). That game is created as the tool for mapping how many connections the actors have in Hollywood between each other by their movies. That game calculates, how many people are between two actors, and similar data can be collected from the politicians or rock stars. 

And if some social media user has the president of some nation in their social media network, that allows getting very effective and followed persons as the fellows in social media. That game can be used for the base to create the algorithm, which calculates the number of social media mates. Those people, who are acting as the centers in their social network are good targets for the information operators or propagandists, who would want to ask those people to the fellows in their social network, and then that operator could start to deliver faked data to that network. 

That's why people like Rock Stars are really good fellows for the net trollers. The audience chooses fellows, what have the same style opinions, what they have, and this would give sharing that kind of operation very big effect. And if other trollers would put more similar cases to that information flow, that thing increases extending the power of information. 

What would vaccinate people against information operations? Should people just learn to ask "why"?

The thing that would give a great chance to resist the faked information is education. The educated person would not so easily follow their leaders and the first step for the criticism is the skills to get information from the sources, which are proven as trustable. And the second thing is to find out, how to use our brains. 

If we always are following every word, what our leaders would tell, that thing makes us blind robots. And that is the reason, why we must practice our way to think about what is behind some words. Why somebody attacks against some minorities and that kind of thing? Why some people want to isolate people, who are different than they are to the ghettos. Is there some reason for that kind of thing? And if some people are trained in universities, are the only persons, whose education doesn't mean a thing?

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https://oracleofbacon.org/

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Are history books contain false information?

Are history books contain false information?

History is always introducing some people point of view of the things, what is happening in a long time ago. Official history is always written by people, who are ruling the nation. And that's the reason, why it's always subjective. Or what would you do, if you were living in the court of the absolute monarch, who had authority to cut your head off right away? would you write something, what makes that person feel uncomfortable?

In the beginning, there are lots of open questions in history, and when the archaeologists have got new equipment for their use, the well-known things are changing to be more mysterious than we expected. When we are thinking about the famous writings, what are claimed to made by the famous and respected people, we must realize that those writings can be fakes, what are made during those people live. And faked documents are not a new thing in history. So there are many things in the official history writing, what are needed a little bit more careful research than we ever expected.

One of those things is connected with the uniforms, which are claimed to be stolen from the dead soldiers after the battle of Little Big Horn. What happened to those uniforms, did  Indians sell them for somebody? But this is the thing, what remains in history. There is one nasty tale about that decision. There is told the story that Raleigh plagued some other poets poems and introduced them to Queen Elizabeth I, and one of those poems were written by queen herself. In some other versions, Raleigh mocks the poem, what was written by Elizabeth herself. And that caused the death. But who knows the truth, that individual is free to tell that to us.

Also, history is full of people, who were acting non-rational way, when they were in crisis. When Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1552  (maybe 1554)-1618) went to Amazons looking for gold he was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth I. That man didn't find gold what he promised to the queen, and then he was executed. The thing is that Raleigh could just flee away, but why he returned? This is the question, what is without an answer.

Raleigh could set up his death in the South American jungle, and nobody missed that man, who was convicted to death. The thing that this kind of details are very important, because the sacrifices, what that man faced should warm her majesty's heart. That kind of things are making questions, what was the real reason, why those people returned, or what happened to uniforms, what were stolen in the battle zones.

When we are thinking about the influence of those happenings in the point of view in modern life, we are facing the thing, that this kind of things had great influence in the bloodlines and tradition of old families, and maybe the changes of people in the high ranking positions in Renaissance period caused that different people are ruling the countries now, what would rule the world without those executions. But this is only philosophical thoughts. The truth is that history is written by somebody, and there are many questions, what have left behind.

One of them was that were the king or queen always supervised self the executions, what has been ordered by the leader of the country. This is a really good question. And of course, the thing is that the executioner might be corrupted. The cases like Sir Walter Raleigh are an interesting part of the research, and who knows what Europe looks like without that kind of things. The thing is that we all descend from the same monkey, who lived in Africa a long time ago. And the thing, why we are hating somebody would get an answer from those cases.

Maybe the tales of ruthless and barbaric enemies affect modern life. And of course, the stories, what are written for fairy tales might get influence from real historical cases. And if those tales are told to children, they will transform their way to think. The first thing, what child hears are making the base of the point of view. And this is the thing, what we should understand when we are telling fairy tales for children, or when we are talking something that our children might hear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh