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Post-Truth Reality As Seen By Science | Walter Quattrociocchi | TEDxMilano


they have us in these times obsessed
with the problem of fake news is the
problem of contemporary society al
point that was elected word
of the year from the Oxford dictionary for the
2016 and let’s say that somehow the
definition is about to acquire the facts
not by rational means but by one
tendency to the emotive nature of being
human
we find out in 2016 the human being does not
it is rational in 2016 as if we were
never been torquemada so many other stories
in short, they teach how the human being is
far from rational
to delude ourselves that the human being is
rational is a famous for example it is
often science and when
he does not understand things
science evolves through falsifiability
a process of knowledge that evolves into
time and by mistake arises where it is not
knows how to approach that comes
called hermeneutical to do it
forgive me the term with le
supercazzole or we put ourselves there
above and we try to fill a gap
informative with things we do not know e
we create very much in the stories
creative writing and what we have
tried to make us instead of coming out of
this practice and try to exploit the
thousands of tons of data that
we leave every day online for example
we have no idea how many tweets are circulating
in every second how many posts come
made on facebook every minute
we are in the order of the millions one
impressive quantities a basin
awesome information that
they can be used by us
scientists to understand things about how
the society works well beyond the
speculation and of course the approach
puts together sociology psychology
social semiotic but not with a
approach based on intuition but
on the empirical approach that is
we use the hard science method
physics we try to do physics
of social systems we start from mark
zuckerberg that in 2007
talking about facebook tells us that not
wants to create a new community but
good only to allow
information to move more
quickly
well it’s an important step in
somehow he is saying that he is
destroying the information system in
how much this takes away the
mediation before we were used to
experts who selected for us the
information the newspaper
the editorial selects goes to the posts and the
information to it a kitten or one
revolution a coup on social media
follow the same selection processes
he has a problem with ours
brain that is the same as science
evolves by learning for
approximations and we are machines
programmed to save energy ad
example this sentence by albert einstein
the problem of citations on the internet
is that often how many of you are false
they realized that it is not einstein but
those brown lauzi
this is to give an example of how
the human brain and brain works
human but for hair approximation
white white mustache
the phrase could be there because
einstein belongs to one of the people
that somehow inspires ours
way of thinking and therefore it’s okay
let’s move on, let’s move on
and this passing over has created gods
non-trivial problems
for example, we were in July 2015
one is made to the quantum university
press conference in which it is said that
it would have been done by those who have little
an anti-terrorist exercise are
only from texas
the press conference aside is the
live tweeting journalists who tweet
within a few hours to those
military exercise the announcement
of the military exercise becomes the
try that
Obama is about to make a coup on
US soil and of course us
we are led to think that a but how much
those who are there are stupid
cascades there is the governor of the
texas who alerted the guard
national saying to preside over the
borders or this and the senator
let us hold the senator
there is not a facebook page of which
you have a senator as a name and keep us
as a surname is a hoax invented by
a hatter of Florence this hoax
made 35,000 shares in the first
week and says that this phantom
Senator has made a proposal for
finance the parliamentarians in case of non
re-election with 134 billion euros
another example of how the
134 billion euros of the human brain
too big digit
I can not imagine it anyway
it is plausible fits into a
context of distrust of the government
and to institutions it passes and becomes
viral this other pertini that says
when the government does not do that the
people want to be cast out those masses
with the stones it does not matter that the
Labia perchini denial foundation
many times
and still a topic of debate
within politics because
incentive the incentive symbol to
express the lack of trust in the comparisons
institution
what’s the monster behind here?
the monster killer is called
confirmation byas prejudice of
confirmation is what leads us to say
that others are idiots to affirm
our intelligence and above all for
the mechanism that leads us to acquire
information because they are consistent
with our worldview and
deny those that are contrasting if
I’m in the juventus
I will take all the information to
support of beauty and strength
of the team my hero
all contrasting information is
a journalist is convinced that the
fiction are a problem
it does not matter that it has been proven
scientifically that bring the sources
and try not to journalism
absolutely solve the problem
I will continue to believe that with the fact
checking I can solve the problem
of the fer news
the problem is monstrous so that from
2013 is named among global threats
in the global risk report of the world
economic forum together with terrorism
because because information passes
without filters it emerges and impacts
on public opinion as we have
seen in the case of vaccinations
lately where there were two
communication approaches 1 vigliacco
which is what you put on the side
AC of the chair and science
it becomes in some way a priesthood and a
what we must not do because
there is so much distrust that we are due
go to the vaccination obligation as it is
was the communicative error and come back
instead it happens a little bit like the
psychology of the individual that is there
behind
and why above all there is this great one
plenty of false information because
we are human beings we are limited and
we want to know thirst for
knowledge thirst of knowledge that a
sometimes it is induced to appease anxiety
we are facing globalization
globalization is a monster that does not
we are able to completely shut down bodies
it’s something that somehow there
it concerns but we do not understand them well
boundaries somehow manifests itself with
immigration with the fact that the states
they are not able to manage the flows
that move on a scale
supranational and in any case we are
all children of the same monkey
we tend to finish filling those holes with
ideas and narratives we all look for one
narration that somehow gives us a
sense of our existence
then there is also another problem is
interconnectivity interconnectivity
that is we can access one
abnormal amount of information without
previous and we are all connected not
there is more the constraint of proximity and
then there is the process
let’s say the scientific progress of the
scientific progress that on its own
evolver evolves at a speed without
previous
and somehow it upsets me change it
our perception and our society e
our cognitive sphere of
that reality is related
and then this too has been used
as a coat of arms a bit like a technician from
journalism not just a strange but
international
functional illiteracy ie
inability to understand what you are
law but it is not because we are stupid and
simply because we are bombarded
from bombarded information calculated that
information for a period of duration
for the fruition search two minutes the
our brain is between eight and eight
twelve seconds
we hold an impression we collect
the information we put everything together e
we tie it to an emotional layer e
that becomes the interpretation is
what we tried to do ourselves
from a scientific point of view it is
to prepare an experiment on
large docks of data 1 out of 2 million almost
three million people and another out of 55
millions of people and then we have it
made one earlier this year on
376 million people to understand the
relationship of the human being with the
narrations that acquire acquires on
company
in particular we took all of them
sources of scientific information e
all sources of information
we do not have conspiracy alternatives
obviously taken part of none of the
two
because science evolves and is made by
human beings and often willingly pulls
out of the monstrous cowboys on the other
the alternative information sporto
let’s say a creative state but in some
so having done to start all
how many these pages we went to
see how users relate
with these different narratives the
scientific narration and that
alternative comes out a result
quite trivial we redid i
accounts for this chart at least eight
Sometimes we sent them to our own
colleagues abroad because it was too much
adjust or follow sources of
scientific information or we follow
conspiracy information sources in
half there is nobody there are
journalists also directors of the
news programs that last understand that in
half of those two curves
There’s a lot of people there
it is not expressed is not true also the
journalist needs the technician for
guarantee its role and what
happens it happens that we are in the world in
which number of likes we put on
a specific narrative influences the
number of people we are from
surrounded that do the same thing
that is, more are active on a page
the more likely the probability is high
that I am surrounded in my sphere of
friends on facebook from people who do
exactly the same thing if I think that
the vaccine should not be dispensed I will be
surrounded by people who support the
my vision of the world is called the
law of polarization of groups
two people who are united by one
thesis will tend not be more extreme and
to seek comfort in the solidarity bond
it resists among them this creates that
phenomenon that was somehow
pumped on the media has now become a bit
of public order
the echo chambers the resonance boxes
that is we can access one
sea ​​magnum the information we find
the information that best suits us
we find people who are similar to us and
together with them
we build the narrative but how
we react to information that is
consistent with our vision of the world
but they contain information clearly
false put as a joke if I think
in the alternative narrative and in the
natural cure how I will react to
information made especially for me
he says I can treat conjunctivitis
with lemon or inside
of chemtrails there is viagra
this information this information
are absorbed by the community that
believe in the eighty story for
one hundred of the cases
this means that information does not
it matters whether it is coherent or not or true or not
less important is that it supports e
support my vision of the world
my narrative is scientific
be it alternative conspiracy and
this is a result instead of
let’s say he did
a significant impact in the global sphere
how they respond to people ad
information that is in contrast with the
their vision of the world for example I go
from the journalist and I tell him what to give
the correct information does not solve the
problem of fake news or I go from
someone who believes in chemtrails and
I tell him that chemtrails do not
they exist as they react ignore
the information does not even look at it
that point we went to get
those few exposed 10 million
we have more or less 5,000 people
actual interactions then 5,000
users who have interacted with these 5
thousand users who have interacted with i
post of the banking as they come
called the result is reinforcement
that is, after exposure instead of
the banking will be active in consuming
conspiracy information will seek
confirmations in their group
the impact was to make
close the column of the competing banks
since washington post has in 2015
we have been translated into almost all of them
languages and we ended up scientific
american
although in Italy for the habilitation
national scientific still these things
They have not considered the impact science and
impact research samantha power
US ambassador to the UN
creature actions and rimini of gail talks
of the echo chamber of the effect e
identifies exactly the problem the
solution we must not talk with
someone because we have to convince him
we have to talk to someone why
could be right could too
being right to return and restore the
communication process
To this end we have opened up
the initiative goes to the university ca
foscari that I had the honor of
reach from September then a month
that are where we start with pan doors
Greek pandor English to say all
doors and also a nomenclature with the
pandora or pandoro vase depending on
as you want to see it
and the idea is to create synergies
between journalistic institutions
science on a quantitative basis
that starts from humility and not from
speculation that tends to tend to
create more facts than answers
make sense of what happens for example
regarding the matter
marginal because we do not try to
understand which ones are actually
people’s resistance to the year
vaccination rather than attack them and
to give the imbecile only for
corroborate our ego because we are
become very narcissistic on social media
we have become very narcissistic and for
to break narcissism
we must return to empathy to learn
to communicate understand that we are all
sons of the same monkey
thank you
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