""when we made information available, that people would want correct information.""
""Hearing my daughter talk about how she'd been harassed online, and how her friends experienced that quite a bit, brought that into focus in a way that I hadn't thought about before,""
""We have context where we want correct information, like hopefully when we want medical advice," Gates said. "But then we kind of like, in our community and enclave, have these shared views that kind of pull us together.""
Bill Gates expresses concern that misinformation is being handed to the younger generation. He admits being naive to assume that broader availability of information would make people seek correct facts. Harassment of his daughter Phoebe, including being memed for an interracial relationship, made the issue personal. Gates explains that people often seek platforms reinforcing their views due to confirmation bias and community bonds. He notes that people want accurate information in contexts like medical advice but still gravitate toward shared, sometimes exaggerated critiques within social enclaves.
Read at Fortune
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]