For those who don't know, infodemic = fancy word for spreading false information about diseases. Including Covid.
In this case I mean the general information epidemic.
I don't think that will ever end. Nor should it, depending on what you mean exactly.
You can't shut up the people you hate without suppressing the people you love. Awful speech says the following "Hey, if they can get away with saying THAT, nobody is going after ME". The idea is to make Bad info less valuable.
Well I highly doubt that is ever going to change. It was always like that wasn't it. How do you define bad in this context? Harmful to society? Strange thread...
I believe more information, if it is true and relevant, is always a good thing.
Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder, as the saying goes. Relevant is always a subjective rule. Relevance outweighs Prejudice, perhaps?
...onto the actual thread topic, there are signs of an end to the so-called Infodemic. As speculated in the Weird & Strange Future Question Thread, Facebook and other social media are "closing up" their Freedom-of-Speech. I imagine that the more hateful speech will get pushed out of the more public social media areas back into the Gutter of the Internet, where they belong. Unfortunately, Hateful Speech and Political Speech are sometimes hard to untangle, so political activism will suffer slightly. Maybe in the US the Republican Party will actually develop standards again?
Probably shouldn't hold my breath At least they might have to stop appealing to the Extremists on the National Stage.
Both political parties prefer a media that distorts things to favor them, so I don't expect mainstream media to get any better for a while. Especially since most media outlets are owned by highly political folks. At some point, I do think enough media outlets will cross the line to get thrown before a Senate Investigating Committee, and they'll actually have to check their facts again. It's more a "When" and no longer an "If".
We're nowhere near the "When" yet, as I think Big Media has recently won, so to speak. Frankly, I see the US Presidential Elections as Media ousting an incumbent President with someone completely unfit for the job, so they're "Winning". At some point, if a President actively attacks the Free Press, the Free Press strikes back. There was like two media outfits supporting Trump, everyone else wanted him gone.