"And here are the three sentences I've said over and over since 2016 when I first said it in Silicon Valley, backed by data and hard-fought experience. Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality. We can't begin to solve any problems, let alone existential ones like climate change. We can't have journalism, we can't have democracy."
"Just as new technology enabled the rise of fascism in the 1930s, today's technology companies are enabling the weaponisation of information at an unprecedented scale. And here's what we've learned through painful experience: online violence is real-world violence. Tactics that were once used to radicalise the Bali bombers, other extremists and terrorists have now been unleashed on the public at large. The information wars being fought on these platforms don't stay virtual they spill into the streets, into voting booths, into policy decisions."
The information ecosystem is collapsing as facts are under assault and truth is being murdered. Trust is the casualty, making governance impossible and enabling dictatorships. Without shared facts and truth there can be no trust, shared reality, journalism, or democracy, hindering problem-solving for crises like climate change. Technology companies enable weaponisation of information at unprecedented scale, turning online radicalisation tactics into tools used against the public. Online violence translates into real-world harm, spilling into streets, voting booths, and policy decisions, worsening wars, humanitarian crises, and environmental disasters worldwide.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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