Social Epistemology ( IF 1.625 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 , DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2021.1949643 Michel Croce 1 , Tommaso Piazza 2
ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on extant approaches to counteract the consumption of fake news online. Proponents of structural approaches suggest that our proneness to consuming fake news could only be reduced by reshaping the architecture of online environments. Proponents of educational approaches suggest that fake news consumers should be empowered to improve their epistemic agency. In this paper, we address a question that is relevant to this debate: namely, whether fake news consumers commit mistakes for which they can be criticized and that they could easily avoid by reforming their doxastic conduct. Proponents of structural approaches, like R. Rini and B. Millar, have defended in different ways a negative answer to this question. In this paper, we criticize their views and suggest that individual users could improve on their epistemic practice by widening their information diet.
中文翻译:
消费假新闻:我们能做得更好吗?
摘要
本文重点介绍了抵消在线假新闻消费的现有方法。结构方法的支持者认为,只有重塑在线环境的架构才能减少我们消费假新闻的倾向。教育方法的支持者建议假新闻消费者应该被授权改善他们的认知代理。在本文中,我们解决了与这场辩论相关的一个问题:即假新闻消费者是否会犯下他们可以受到批评的错误,并且他们可以通过改变他们的信念行为轻松避免这些错误。结构方法的支持者,如 R. Rini 和 B. Millar,以不同的方式为这个问题的否定答案辩护。在本文中,