The combination of unprecedented transparency with unprecedented misinformation has created a perfect storm of reputational damage for gatekeepers and experts: roughly half of the negative material about institutions is true, embarrassing, and worth correcting, while the other half is Alex Jones-style confabulation and lies—yet both halves now reside in most people's brains, especially right of center.

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Sam Harris

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a degree of transparency uh coupled with a degree of misinformation... has created a kind of perfect storm of of reputational damage for the the gatekeepers

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Sam Harris on How Populism and Inequality Threaten Open Societies (Making Sense #423)Sam Harris
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:31:59 PM

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