1st Edition
Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology Protecting Knowledge
Introduction: Knowledge Under Threat
Part 1: The Threat of Misinformation
1. How Misinformation Prevents Knowing
2. Conspiracy Theories and Runaway Skepticism
3. Ambiguity, Fakery, and Social Evidence
Part 2: The Promise of Content Moderation
4. Damned if You Do: The Case Against Content Moderation
5. Damned if You Don’t: The Case for Content Moderation
6. Collaborative Content Moderation
Epilogue: Online, Digital Soldiers
Biography
Keith Raymond Harris is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he specializes in social and applied epistemology and the philosophy of cognitive science. His recent publications include “Real Fakes: The Epistemology of Online Misinformation,” “Epistemic Domination,” and “Beyond Belief: On Disinformation and Manipulation.”
“Harris provides a timely inquiry into the role of content moderation in online platforms and the effects of different moderation policies on the ability of people using the platforms to understand the information they present and recognize misinformation . . . This book would be useful in a course on epistemology, communications, media theory, or the sociology of the internet. Summing Up: Recommended.”
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