Elaborating on point 1 and the “misinformation is only a small part of why the system is broken” idea:
The current system could be broken in many ways but at some equilibrium of sorts. Upsetting this equilibrium could have substantial effects because, for instance, people’s built immune response to current misinformation is not as well trained as their built immune response to traditionally biased media.
Additionally, intervening on misinformation could be far more tractable than other methods of improving things. I don’t have a solid grasp of what the problem is and what makes is worse, but a number of potential causes do seem much harder to intervene on than misinformation: general ignorance, poor education, political apathy. It can be the case that misinformation makes the situation merely 5% worse but is substantially easier to fix than these other issues.
Elaborating on point 1 and the “misinformation is only a small part of why the system is broken” idea:
The current system could be broken in many ways but at some equilibrium of sorts. Upsetting this equilibrium could have substantial effects because, for instance, people’s built immune response to current misinformation is not as well trained as their built immune response to traditionally biased media.
Additionally, intervening on misinformation could be far more tractable than other methods of improving things. I don’t have a solid grasp of what the problem is and what makes is worse, but a number of potential causes do seem much harder to intervene on than misinformation: general ignorance, poor education, political apathy. It can be the case that misinformation makes the situation merely 5% worse but is substantially easier to fix than these other issues.