Pseudoscience, Cults, and Social Media: Misinformation in the Modern Age

Go to https://ground.news/unsolicited to understand how different perspectives shape our worldview. Save 40% on the Ground News unlimited access Vantage plan with my link. Pseudoscience, Cults, and misinformation go hand in hand. But how do these communities come to be, and how are they so effective at spreading nonsense? Well, today let's find out. And let's discover the worrying way these dynamics are mirrored on social media and our everyday lives. Support me on Patreon here (you lovely person): https://patreon.com/UnsolicitedAdvice701?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Subscribe to my Substack here for more of my writings (and my scripts): https://josephfolley.substack.com/ Wisecrack Video: https://youtu.be/7LJyvmRn864?si=ukmTKVNo-4MmW3ss Some sources on the disputes around echo chambers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06631 https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09603 https://www.rcommunicationr.org/index.php/rcr/article/view/16 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10388309 00:00 Pseudoscience and Misinformation 03:30 Pseudoscience: A Brief Introduction 12:45 Cults and Epistemology 20:15 Influencers and Social Media 30:19 Knowledge, Truth, and Communities