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We are in a crisis of knowledge - and it couldn鈥檛 have happened at a worse time | The Globe and Mail
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Published: 24 October 2023
October 20, 2023 | This opinion piece by Taylor Owen talks about the reasoning behind why he decided to take a break from X, formerly Twitter, a platform he has been using as a gateway to information for over a decade.听
He said "the platform is now broken. Where it once filtered valuable information about the world in a timely manner, it is now calibrated to anger and extremes under the ownership of a spiteful billionaire clearly caught in an ideological rabbit hole."
He then talks about how AI influenced the news we receive on social media, especially X and how this leads to a challenge in identifying fake news from the reality.听
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