Memory is notoriously fallible, but some experts worry that a new phenomenon is emerging. "Memories are shared among groups in novel ways through sites such as Facebook and Instagram, blurring the line between individual and collective memories," says psychologist Daniel Schacter, who studies memory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The development of Internet-based misinformation, such as recently well-publicized fake news sites, has the potential to distort individual and collective memories in disturbing ways."
How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @06:17PM
I think stopping the spread of 'unacceptable' information is exactly how to get another "crusades or holocaust" to happen.
The thing people miss out about what effectively boils down to censorship is that it doesn't just stop 'bad' things. Censorship is invariably a top-down affair. And when we openly endorse the censorship of information, even "fake" information, it grants them that power in capacity and precedent. Now you get a bad actor in power, which will happen as sure as day will turn to night, you just gave them the toolkit for control.