My reflections on the information dynamics of the bridge crisis: Crisis events become opportunities for political point-scoring and spreading conspiracy theories. This has likely always been true, but this dynamic is incentivized and reinforced by the design/evolution of our information systems.

No bookmarks yet but I'm picking these readings up later for sure. Ty for this thread

We were constantly called conspiracy theorists during Covid … most of what we questioned, we ended up being correct … not on all, but yes most

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Let me try to explain this conspiracy theorizing/political point-scoring about crisis events through a perspective that connects our natural processes of collective sensemaking to the current attention dynamics within our information systems. (Thread)

If it bleeds, it leads. If the suspect is black, the photo aint at the back.

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