NYTimes: Biden needs a “Reality Czar” because Qanon!
How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis
These steps, experts say, could prod more people to abandon the scourge of hoaxes and lies.
the baseless theory that Mr. Biden “wasn’t actually elected by the people.”
…more than 70 percent of Republicans believe Mr. Trump legitimately won the election, and 40 percent of Americans — including plenty of Democrats — believe the baseless theory that Covid-19 was manufactured in a Chinese lab. …
…How do you unite a country in which millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality?…
…I called a number of experts and asked what the Biden administration could do to help fix our truth-challenged information ecosystem, or at least prevent it from getting worse. Here’s what they told me.
Assess the damage, and avoid the ‘terrorist’ trap….set up a “truth commission,” similar to the 9/11 Commission…
Appoint a ‘reality czar.’…put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation … led by “reality czar.”
Audit the algorithms….push for much more transparency into the inner workings of the black-box algorithms …
Enact a ‘social stimulus,’ and fix people’s problems. …“Clearly there’s a public safety issue…"
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/technology/biden-reality-crisis-misinformation.html