When Nothing Online Can Be Trusted
An unsettling conversation about the impact of widespread misinformation, hacked phones, and fake news on how we trust what we see online. The discussion explores how constant uncertainty could distort our thinking and erode confidence in brands, media, and even reality itself.
Chapter 1
Imported Transcript
Speaker 1
I mean, what, what, what does that, what does that do to your brain? Think about that right now. Think about that. Think about how every brand, right, every name br-- or every, uh, every cell phone, right? Should I say every cell phone but Apple or Motorola has a, um, system bug or system virus in it. And the news that you read is false, right? The-- I mean, think about that. What does that do to your brain, right? Every, every name brand cell phone, except for maybe a couple brands or even one brand, are actually true. So you go on your cell phone and it's not a Motorola, right? Or it's not an Apple, right? And you go to a website and you don't even know, right, if what you're reading is true. Because you have a bugged phone, an out-of-date, right, phone without your-- without the all top of the security. On TV, the president has come out and declared that, um, most telephones now have a system bug in it, a system virus in it, and the stuff you read on it is completely false. The news that you go to on, on the website is a result of phishing. You go to The New York Times. You think you're actually reading, right, The New York Times website until the president comes out and tells the American public that there's ten, twenty, thirty different versions of the front page of The New York Times on the internet. And which one is the authentic one, right? What's that do to my brain? What's that do to your brain? Think about that. What does that do, right? Weird.