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What Happens When?

A stark warning about threats to truth, science, and democracy

"What happens when the underpinnings of that democracy are eroded? What happens when instead of debating policies, we find ourselves debating the most basic facts? What happens when we can't even agree on what constitutes a fact? What happens when all those elements we rely upon for determining what is a fact -- expertise, education, experience, and evidence -- are routinely devalued, dismissed and denied? That's where we are today."

-- News MIT / April 2022

• https://news.mit.edu/2022/martin-baron-compton-lecture-journalism-0425

Digital Rights and Fact Finding Resources via GreenPolicy360:

GreenPolicy360: The development of science over the ions is, as the song goes, "a long and winding road" but here we are in the 21st Century and still facing ancient themes. The "Scientific Revolution", as it was called, was based on ancient knowledge -- and arguments -- that carried through the "Middle Ages" and led to the "Age of Enlightenment", the "Age of Reason", and in Europe the end of "Feudalism", and beginning of "Mercantilism", "Colonialism", "Capitalism" and "Socialism". Social and political revolutions across the world in the 1800s brought on conflict and wars that carried into and across the 1900s with two world wars and a Nuclear Weapons Era now threatening civilization -- and even humanity's existence. Now at century's end, we look out at mixed economies, a heated struggle between democratic and authoritarian governments, and a global "Internet Age" connecting nations across our planet. We mark the beginning of a new electronic, computer era with all its benefits, knowledge -- and the misuse, the disinfo/misinfo of an online 360, 24/7/365 system that is 'always on'.

Within the Internet, the "World Wide Web", the 'lit, open web' and the 'dark web', a different neural network than any before the 21st Century is powering up, with machine learning and artificial intelligence on the near horizon. The computer-assisted reach, engagement, and persuasive power of digital communication is just beginning to feel its full power.

Welcome Digital Citizen. Are you prepared?

Digital Citizen

Digital Rights

Fact Checking

Fact Checking and Embedded Links

Merchants of Doubt

Mobile Internet

Money in Politics

Online Privacy

Privacy on the Net-Online Rights

Strategic Policy-Internet Online Rights

Virtual Private Network

Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki

World Wide Web

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Digital360

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Digital_Citizen | Digital Citizen
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights | Digital Rights
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Beginning_of_WWW_89_TimBerners-Lee_CERN.jpg | World Wide Web

Fact-Checking, 'Facts Count'

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Fact_Checking_organizations_at_work.jpg | Fact Checking @Work
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking | Fact Checking, Do It Now
• https://reporterslab.org/update-237-fact-checkers-in-nearly-80-countries-and-counting/ | 80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)
• https://reporterslab.org/number-of-fact-checking-outlets-surges-to-188-in-more-than-60-countries/ | 60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)
• http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/ | 37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)
• https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ | MediaWise for Teens
• http://www.politifact.com/ | PolitiFact via Poynter
• https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/ | Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network
• http://www.poynter.org/category/fact-checking/ | Poynter Int'l List
• https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ | Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News

GreenPolicy360 & Science

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png | GreenPolicy360, Facts & Data
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science | GreenPolicy360, Our Policy on Science
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms | Global Climate Keywords

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt | Merchants of Doubt
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg | Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png | Techniques of Science Denial (Video)
• http://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656 | Wiki Community Science

A NASA Message: 'Measure to Manage'

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