In the midst of a terrible tragedy in Texas, discussions are discussed about the real wrong information cloud

With Texas’s search and rescue teams continuing to search for those missing in the amazing floods and societies, societies are trying to combine lives, and demands spread quickly about what happened and who was blaming.

Many people blame the Trump administration’s discounts in the national weather service. On the right, the keyboard warriors accused cloud sowing techniques of causing destroyed floods. Others publish in society news about the miracle survival of some of those who fell in the flood.

These allegations and accusations have been named to mislead information, which are usually understood as “wrong” or “misleading”. The floods in Texas were flooded with news courses with a broader discussion about what is wrong, how they work, and the effects that they can cause.

It is not surprising that Americans are concerned about wrong information. The latest polling by the Kato Institute shows that Americans believe that wrong information is the biggest threat to their freedom. This result is correct for Republicans and Democrats, although they are likely to be the wrong information as a threat to various reasons.

Other opinion polls have reported that 80 percent of Americans are looking at wrong information as a big problem. According to the 2023 poll, 55 percent of Americans believe that the US government should take measures to restrict wrong information, even if it limits freedom of information.

Although research on wrong information shows that it is not a serious threat as, and we must be careful that in our efforts to address it, we do not make things worse.

Wrong information is an incredibly self -subjective issue that people respond in complex ways. In fact, the wrong information is often adopted and published by those who already suffer from believing this, and we can also see clearly in the recent events in Texas.

The course is familiar: Actors with political motives publish wrong or misleading information that was very good to verify because they have strengthened their beliefs. Likewise, the local residents who hoped to get some good news and believe that they wanted to be correct, but unfortunately, it was not so. As it often happens during important disasters, wrong or misleading information is spread due to the sophisticated nature of the tragedy quickly – often we do not know what the truth is yet.

Therefore, although wrong information can be harmful, it is often more symptoms of the disease. Research shows that the wrong information itself often does not change the beliefs and actions of those who face it; Instead, it tends to enhance current beliefs or behaviors. In this sense, the wrong information has no strong influence that the media and the political world talks about.

Unfortunately, despite this evidence reduces its impact and strength, the wrong information clouds wave on the horizon on our society today. The Americans have been informed for years so far that we are in the midst of “Infctures” from the strong wrong information that affects our minds like the virus. For example, last year, the risk report at the World Economic Forum described the wrong information of Amnesty International and misleading as the biggest threat to the world in the next two years. The number of academic research, books, journalism and fact -examining resources has increased over the past decade.

Instead of tasting about wrong information and opening the door for government control, the threat of wrong information from A to Z must be tackled instead of top to the bottom. For technology companies, this means rebuilding user confidence and helping users to be better for information. Tools like society’s notes-as they are adopted or tested in some form by X, Meta, Tiktok, YouTube and other platforms-are useful in making users trust examining the facts they see. The efforts made to “before the pelvis” will help through erasing the best media illiteracy by enabling users.

When the government begins to finance counter -reproductive research, things tend to violate. This may seem intuitive, but we often disagree about what is wrong information and tends to prefer our political biases, as it appears in the news about Texas floods. Therefore, when the government exceeds the money to discuss wrong information, it inevitably funds these biases, which contribute over time to polarizing and lack of confidence in our institutions.

Likewise, the United States government must restrict what it deems “foreign misleading information” to include only the most obvious and harmful cases. When it is not carefully dealt with, such efforts can turn into government attacks on Americans ‘discourse and political opinions – see intelligence experts who make a mistake in the Hunter Biden laptop – attracting more Americans’ confidence in their leaders.

The flood water declines in Texas, but the storm of wrong information is still attending within our society. Instead of doubling panic in misplaced information, we must instead trust and help Americans discover the truth. More talk, more discussions – not less than talk and more government control – is how we send information and find a brighter tomorrow.

David Inserira is a fellow freedom of expression and technology at the Kato Institute.