[icris]

i think the alarm is a bit overrated. it talks about "misinformation campaigns indistinguishable from reality", but if so it means they don't add more view prejudice to reality than the one that it already possess, so no harm

the danger is when disinformation distorts reality and in that case it's very distinguishable from reality, at least, i think, to an educated mind. for the others i don't think misinformation does anything for their worldview than what they have right now, if anything is just a case of confirmation bias playing on their susceptible minds

the greatest danger is for people with open minds but little literacy to digest and filter info from crap noise that can become prey of some well crafted campaigns to elude. but for better or worst people are more educated now than they were once before and we can foresee that they will be even more when the problem becomes too manifest, but will it be enough?

but even in the worst scenario i anticipate probably nothing more than an inconvenient drawback - but there's how society evolves anyway, a perpetual dialectic motion of advances and set backs - because to be really useful prejudice world views should possess better predicaments for the worlds troubles and that they have not, because paradoxically if that had they would be not prejudices in the first place. so they could only engage people on some conditioned response temporarily before reality throws them out. but maybe i'm being naive, who knows?