Comment by LVB
2 days ago
A form that is particularly annoying to me is where official-sounding accounts are posting about plausible scientific advances or discoveries. Just yesterday, I saw some "James Webb Space Telescope" account gushing about new photos that dropped. They were beautiful, though obviously a little too nice, and of course NASA/JPL had released no such photos.
I can't put my finger on why this bugs me--and my wife thinks I'm being a pedantic when I comment that they're fake ("it's a nice picture, they like it, let them be")--but I think it has to do with the targeting of folks that absolutely would like that photo to be real.
It bugs you becouse it is a lie and fools people I guess?
It is like these "life hack" cooking recipes that don't work. They are wasting kids enthusiasm in cooking and trust in people.
Or any recipe in existence that will pretend you can caramelize onions in 10 minutes so they don’t have to admit their recipe is actually taking as long as anyone who knows how to cook knows it will. All prep time will also assume you have the worlds best knife skills so cutting 300g of carrots julienne will be like 2min tops
It bothers me because I know that being lied to frequently can have terrifying outcomes for everyone.
Disinformation is a very real thing to get angry about. At the same time it's a blessing, because it gives away if people fact check the stuff they see
On the other hand, without dis/misinformation, it wouldn’t be so important to know whether people fact check the stuff they see.