#233 — The Groves of Misinformation

Sam Harris speaks with Zeynep Tufekci about the problem of
misinformation and group-think. They discuss the Covid-19
pandemic, the early failures of journalists and public health
professionals to make sense of it, the sociology of mask wearing,
the problem of correcting institutional errors, Covid as a dress
rehearsal for something far worse, asymmetric information
warfare, failures of messaging about vaccines, the paradox of
scientific authority, the power of incentives, how to reform
social media, and other topics.


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