Misinformation & Disinformation in the Financial Market: Back to the future
The past two decades of global digitalization have ushered in numerous benefits and fresh opportunities for humanity. However, at times, we tend to overlook or deliberately ignore the drawbacks of this progress. Yet, we have been warned. Over 30 years ago, in his book Perfect Crime, the renowned French sociologist Jean Baudrillard delineated the mechanism by which reality fades away, encapsulated and preserved within a symbol. Consider Google, for instance, which has transformed into a symbol of humanity’s collective knowledge. The days of traditional libraries and paperbacks are long gone. Today, internet users have vested Google with an astonishing level of trust, especially when it comes to the search engine’s first-page results, forgetting that Google is simply a search engine.Continue Reading