The big lesson for me is you can NEVER put absolute trust in ANYTHING you see on the internet - always reckon with the possibility (even remote) that a server/source/account could be hacked and that info could be fake, manipulated, etc. As long as people ALWAYS behave with the mindset "this piece of info COULD be false or fake, so I am going to act as if it WERE false or fake" then collectively we should be a lot safer. So rule 1, be sceptical, rule 2, be sceptical and rule 3, see rule 1 and 2. :-)
Of course there are also lessons to be learned about how Twitter and other companies operate, but things will always go wrong no matter what, so an internet user's basic mindset should be "this info could be fake, hacked or manipulated".
Oh I agree absolutely, rather than "the internet" I was rather looking at social media versus traditional media, difference being that with social media the threshold for publishing is almost zero, literally anyone can throw anything on social media ... but with 'traditional' news you can also go wrong.
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The big lesson for me is you can NEVER put absolute trust in ANYTHING you see on the internet - always reckon with the possibility (even remote) that a server/source/account could be hacked and that info could be fake, manipulated, etc. As long as people ALWAYS behave with the mindset "this piece of info COULD be false or fake, so I am going to act as if it WERE false or fake" then collectively we should be a lot safer. So rule 1, be sceptical, rule 2, be sceptical and rule 3, see rule 1 and 2. :-)
Of course there are also lessons to be learned about how Twitter and other companies operate, but things will always go wrong no matter what, so an internet user's basic mindset should be "this info could be fake, hacked or manipulated".
A philosophical skeptic might tell you absolute trust can't be put in anything, not just things observed on the internet.
Oh I agree absolutely, rather than "the internet" I was rather looking at social media versus traditional media, difference being that with social media the threshold for publishing is almost zero, literally anyone can throw anything on social media ... but with 'traditional' news you can also go wrong.