All of this is bad news, because the reliability/accuracy of agents in a social network (i.e., all of us in real life, much of the time!) not only changes all the time as we hear more evidence/arguments from others, our reliabilities (including our perceptions of each others’ reliability) will mutually influence each other, see (just out a month ago): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17456916231198479
so what does this all mean? #epistemology#misinformation#SocialNetworks