"...These steps, experts say, could prod more people to abandon the scourge of hoaxes and lies.
...But plenty of other Americans weren’t paying attention to Mr. Biden’s speech.
- They were too busy watching YouTube videos alleging that the inauguration was a prerecorded hoax that had been filmed on a Hollywood soundstage.
...And it raises an important question for the Biden administration: How do you unite a country in which millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality?
- In the past year alone, we have seen conspiracy theorists cause Covid-19 vaccine delays, sabotage a wildfire response and engineer a false election fraud narrative.
- We have also seen that if left unchecked, networked conspiracy theories and online disinformation campaigns can lead to offline violence, as they did during last month’s deadly Capitol riot.
...So I called a number of experts and asked what the Biden administration could do to help fix our truth-challenged information ecosystem, or at least prevent it from getting worse.
Here’s what they told me.
...Joan Donovan, the research director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, suggested that the Biden administration could set up a “truth commission,” similar to the 9/11 Commission, to investigate the planning and execution of the Capitol siege on Jan. 6...Read all!!!!!
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