Today’s communication system is horizontally disseminated: While print and broadcast media were very similar to the top-down centralized network of communication used by the Church, today’s communication has a different architecture, says tech entrepreneur Oliver Luckett in a video for Big Think. Because anyone with a device and cellular coverage can produce, distribute, and report news, today’s communication is horizontally disseminated, but that does not mean we’re any closer to the truth, he says. Human emotion has become the primary editor-in-chief of today’s news, and a concerted effort in social responsibility will be required to avoid misinformation — something that we may not be capable of en masse (runtime 06:04).

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