Why Disinformation Works. How Otherwise Reasonable People can Ignore Facts and Believe Purposeful Mistruths. What Next?

Authors: Hoffman DP*

DOI: 10.23880/abca-16000271

Volume 7, Issue 2

Abstract

I’m writing today to offer what has become an annual update in these pages to growing concerns about misinformation, disinformation and the harm they cause to individuals and the public health. I’ll review those concerns, attempt to provide a partial explanation for how this can happen, and add my new concern that the advent of “AI” artificial intelligence compounds the issues and multiplies the risk. I will conclude with a call for action that using the filter of principles of bioethics, I now see is overdue.

Keywords: Public Health; Bioethics; Immunity

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