By the way, I was watching the news this morning on CNN and saw something pretty amazing that illustrates this point. They brought in a panel of "Trump voters" and asked them about the Charlottesville incident. Those people said that the whole thing was part of a conspiracy against the president, and when asked where they got this evidence, they at first couldn't remember, and then later provided the reporter with a Facebook video showing some random guy in a car claiming there was a conspiracy.
The random guy in a car said that someone told him it was a conspiracy, but had no evidence himself. The conspiracy theory of course has been debunked by every news organization. However, when the reporter asked these people who they trusted more about facts and objective truth, the Trump supporters said they trust the random guy sitting in his car on Facebook to give them all of the accurate information about the world rather than any trained journalist with investigative resources. This is our current reality. We have to reflect on that when considering how the marketplace of ideas works today.
By the way, I was watching the news this morning on CNN and saw something pretty amazing that illustrates this point. They brought in a panel of "Trump voters" and asked them about the Charlottesville incident. Those people said that the whole thing was part of a conspiracy against the president, and when asked where they got this evidence, they at first couldn't remember, and then later provided the reporter with a Facebook video showing some random guy in a car claiming there was a conspiracy.
The random guy in a car said that someone told him it was a conspiracy, but had no evidence himself. The conspiracy theory of course has been debunked by every news organization. However, when the reporter asked these people who they trusted more about facts and objective truth, the Trump supporters said they trust the random guy sitting in his car on Facebook to give them all of the accurate information about the world rather than any trained journalist with investigative resources. This is our current reality. We have to reflect on that when considering how the marketplace of ideas works today.