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Scientists Warn That Social Media Could Be a Threat to Civilization - Futurism
"And they often tend to fail catastrophically, unexpectedly, without warning."
What if human civilization could survive wars and plagues, but not social media?
That’s the question that seems to motivate an alarming new paper, published in the elite journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and authored by a strikingly diverse team of researchers in biology, psychology, neural and climate science, and more. It’s a bleak read — and, possibly, a call to action to better understand the volatile ways that misinformation spreads online.
"And they often tend to fail catastrophically, unexpectedly, without warning."
What if human civilization could survive wars and plagues, but not social media?
That’s the question that seems to motivate an alarming new paper, published in the elite journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and authored by a strikingly diverse team of researchers in biology, psychology, neural and climate science, and more. It’s a bleak read — and, possibly, a call to action to better understand the volatile ways that misinformation spreads online.