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At Psychology Today Blogs, Michael Patrick Lynch argues that, given the reach of Facebook and its sister “social” media apps, the Zuckerborg’s decision to eschew fact-checking has serious implications for the future of democracy. He cites Hanna Arendt:

As philosopher Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, authoritarian propaganda thrives on “extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion, fact depends entirely on the power of the man who can fabricate it” (Arendt, 1951). In other words, it is in an authoritarian’s self-interest to undermine the idea that anyone else besides themselves can “fact-check” or say what’s true and what’s false.

Follow the link for his arguments.

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