America Is In Truth Decay - RAND Corporation

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About Truth Decay
By: RAND Corporation, 2022

The line between fact and fiction in American public life is becoming blurred. RAND calls this phenomenon "Truth Decay," and our researchers are studying its causes, consequences, and how to counter it.

The Causes

America's current era of Truth Decay is defined in part by an increasing disagreement about objective facts that exists on scale not observed in previous periods. For example, despite having more evidence than ever before about vaccines being safe and effective at preventing disease, vaccine skepticism in the United States is on the rise.
This is just one example of how public attitudes can diverge from facts and data in debates and discourse. So what's behind the decline?
RAND researchers have identified four main drivers:
  1. cognitive biases
  2. changes to the information ecosystem, including the rise of social media and changes in the economics of news
  3. demands on the educational system that slow its ability to adapt to changes in the information ecosystem
  4. political and social polarization
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Not one mention of censorship? What a juvenile study.
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despite having more evidence than ever before about vaccines being safe and effective at preventing disease
You obviously must mean the brutal censorship of any information suggesting the Covid "Vaccine" was an effective therapeutic rather than a drug that made you immune and prevented Covid infections and transmissions.


6617 surviving family members probably know the truth, I guess.

"None of the companies offering a COVID-19 vaccine has ever claimed it would be completely effective at preventing death from the virus."

Yet if you say that on any social platform, it is an instant ban for life. That's a major reason why people not only don't know the truth, but the cannot possibly know the truth.
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Hey man. Don't assume I actually agree with everything they say. I don't even like their solutions for fixing truth decay. I just thought that was a great summary of what is going on.

Personally, I think the COVID-19 vaccine is not safe for everyone. This is apparent from the long rap sheet of side effects for it.

I also know that this form of vaccine is still experimental. So the people who took it are test subjects. 

I also know that there has been rampant censorship of COVID-19 information. I am against it. We need herd immunity of ideas just as much as herd immunity from sicknesses. Censorship can contribute to stupidity because it causes people not to engage in things they disagree with.
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Not one mention of censorship? What a juvenile study.
Exhibit A
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Sorry, I just felt the need to point out the the study itself ironically censored the real reason for misinformation by omitting the obvious rise of censorship in the last decade.
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Sorry, I just felt the need to point out the the study itself ironically censored the real reason for misinformation by omitting the obvious rise of censorship in the last decade.
Exhibit A - the person posting continuous, nonstop disingenuous misinformation; pretends their posting of continuous, nonstop disingenuous misinformation  is not the problem - it’s really the people they target with their nonstop disingenuous misinformation!

Please post more unverified, random YouTube videos without further!
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I agree with Greyparrot that I would include censorship as a keypoint, but it could be part of media. If you click on the link it's basically just a brochure. I don't see any way to access anything more substantial.

The reason people stop trusting is always the same, they feel that trust was betrayed.

If a group of people have stopped trusting institutions you can be sure it's because they perceived a breach of trust, such as a lie.

Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy, and anyone seeking to restore that trust has got to be willing to address every single perceived breach without minimizing or sidestepping them.

The censorship is real, many people on the right have experienced it first hand or know someone who has been banned/suspended/etc... for expressing doubts or asking questions.

Once you know that people are being censored it is only rational to infer that any apparent consensus could be manufactured.

It doesn't take Hari Seldon to figure this dynamic out, the founders certainly knew the dangers of censorship, it's so obvious that some have speculated that it might be an intentional attack on social cohesion.
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Exhibit A - the person posting continuous, nonstop disingenuous misinformation; pretends their posting of continuous, nonstop disingenuous misinformation  is not the problem - it’s really the people they target with their nonstop disingenuous misinformation!
Hypocrisy, to the proverbial "T"!

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I agree with both you and Greyparrot. 
Censorship is an inherent problem with this "truth decay" phenomena. 
And I am one such person who has been censored and banned more than once. But now these social media platforms are requiring a cell number whereas they didn't before. Now when you're banned, your cell phone # is flagged and you cannot re-register even with a sock puppet account via just an email. Cause a cell number is required for text verification. 
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Hypocrisy, to the proverbial "T"!
Sometimes he has funny troll moments. Good to keep around like a chew toy.
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I also know that there has been rampant censorship of COVID-19 information. I am against it. 
What a jackass 

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Censorship of lies and misinformation in not censorship.
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Not one mention of censorship? What a juvenile study.
GayParrott is a juvenile