How Our Visual Culture of Credibility is Being Manipulated

Photo caption: Installation view of Architectures of Violence exhibition by Caroline Sinders at Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco (photograph courtesy the artist). Article by Charlotte Kent. Hyperallergic – September 8, 2021.

In July, the Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued a Surgeon General’s Advisory on Misinformation. Though in the past such warnings have been about public health threats related to food, water, and smoke, he claimed, “Today we live in a world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health.”

The advisory explicitly blames social media for enabling the spread of false and misleading information about […]

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