Lies spread faster than the truth

Thursday, July 31, 2025

“Lies spread faster than the truth. Opinion on major online platforms is not free, but determined by recommendation algorithms. Lies reach users three times faster on Facebook and six times faster on Twitter. And that was before Zuckerberg bowed down to Trump and Musk took over Twitter.”

If you share these worries, then read on and sign the petition Freedom for facts.

I signed the petition although I believe that we need more than just having the EU Commission “examine the mechanisms that make disinformation a successful model” and “force the platforms to offer better alternatives”.

What we need is truly social media, a world-wide platform where people can post and share and like and comment without being owned by a greedy giant.

That’s why we need Mastodon to become the obvious platform for doing social media. Either Mastodon or something better. But it must be sustainably free software and it must be decentralized.

Our Synodalworld project is exploring this last vision.