There are satellites watching various important events all over the world right now. Satellites that we the public have no access to.

So instead of seeing the events for ourselves we get news from various totally untrustworthy and manipulative news things.

If we could access the satellites then we could see for ourselves, or at least seriously fact check the news things.

I think this would make things better, how about you?

  • presoak@lazysoci.alOP
    61·
    1 day ago

    I think that’s a smaller threat than the threat of being showered in lies by professional liars.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      32·
      1 day ago

      Really?

      And how do you know this without access to that data currently?

      “Professional liars” have been with us from the beginning, there’s nothing new about that.

      Having access to all sorts of surveillance data wouldn’t help - you’d still have no way of knowing what’s meaningful, what isn’t. It’s why analysts have a job.

      Even with AI tools the scale of data is staggering.