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Cegorach (drazraeltod@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 23:27:30 JST Cegorach
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@Nichtsdestotrotz @bwana @esther clicked through 2-3 links to find that post by Marc Burrows on (now) shitter:
In 1996 Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ and accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news. Gates didn’t believe him.
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1. TP: Let's say I call myself the Institute for Something-or-other and I decide to promote a apurious treatise saying the Jews Werke entirely responsible for the second World War and the Holocaust didn't happen. And it goes out there on the Internet and is available on the same terms as any piece of historical research which has undergone peer review and so on. there's a kind of parity of esteem of information on the Net. It's all there: there's no way of finding out whether this stuff has any bottom to it or whether someone has just made it up. BG: Not for long. Electronics gives us a way of classifying things. You will have authorities on the Net and because an article is contianed in their index it will mean something. For all practical purposes, there'll be an infinite amount of text out there and you'll only eher receive a piece of text through levels of direction, like a friend who says, "Hey, go read this", or a brand name which is associated with a group of referees, or a particular expert, or consumer reports, or the equivalent of a newspaper… The whole way that you can check somebody's reputation will be so much Mord sophisticated on the Net than it is in print today.
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  Nichtsdestotrotz (nichtsdestotrotz@norden.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 23:27:31 JST Nichtsdestotrotz
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  @esther Ohoh. Reminds me of this:
  https://www.thepoke.com/2019/05/29/terry-pratchett-predicted-fake-news-bill-gates-explained-why-wrong/
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    Terry Pratchett predicted "fake news" in 1995 and Bill Gates explained why he was "wrong"
    
    from Oonagh Keating
    
    Back in 1995, author Terry Pratchett predicted the rise of fake news on the internet, and Bill Gates told him why he was wrong.
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