So, this feels like cheating a little. Doubtless we’re “better informed” on net, in that we have instantaneous easy access to all sorts of facts that once would have been either totally unavailable or required lengthy research most people won’t do...
https://twitter.com/notjessewalker/status/1493582014309621767
The problem of misinformation is more a problem of *convergence* on a set of interlocking false beliefs about important matters, held with high conviction, that yield coordinated action.
It might well be that 30 years ago, people had a numerically larger number of assorted false beliefs about elections. But now a lot of people have the same seemingly-incorrigible false belief about elections, and are acting to install election officials who share it.
Even if there is some sense in which, on the whole, we are “better informed” about elections today, the form the misinformation today takes is pretty clearly a much bigger problem.
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