Archive - Reasonable People

The Politicisation of Misinformation

How do we get out of here?

Apr 23

The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama’s book is over 30 years old, but the argument he makes has never been more relevant.

Apr 22 •

January 2025

The Making of Community Notes

RP#60 A third (and final?) comment on the Community Notes system recently picked up by Meta, following a great article about the original team which…

Jan 21 •

Unhinged, unfortunate, unproven, inadequate, misdirected

RP#59 The bigger picture around Meta's announcement on fact-checking

Jan 15 •

The algorithmic heart of Community Notes

RP #58 What we know about the Fact Checking system Meta is adopting from Musk's X

Jan 9 •

Belief in the reasonableness of others

Reasonable People #57: Developing a measure of our faith in reason, new work from me

Jan 3 •

December 2024

Legibility and Legitimacy

Reasonable People #56: On recognising the limits of reasoned decision making.

Dec 26, 2024 •

September 2024

The truth about digital propaganda

Reasonable People #55: Our piece in New Scientist bring evidence to worries about online manipulation

Sep 1, 2024 •

August 2024

Pathologies of collective life

Reasonable People #54 : Two phenomena which derail useful meetings, and thoughts on how to tame them.

Aug 5, 2024 •

March 2024

AI-juiced political microtargeting

Reasonable People #53 looking carefully at the claims in one study which uses generative AI to customise ads to personality type

Mar 26, 2024 •

Propaganda is dangerous, but not because it is persuasive

Reasonable People #52: I pick at the claim that propaganda "doesn't work".

Mar 11, 2024 •

How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda?

Reasonable People #51: Bullet review of a new paper suggesting LLMs can create highly persuasive text and will supercharge covert propaganda campaigns.

Mar 2, 2024 •

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