An Xiao Mina is co-founder of the Credibility Coalition and co-chair of the W3C Credible Web Community Group, where they are building web-wide standards for content credibility through rigorous research.
Is quality information like quality nutrition? Can we map the building blocks of useful information online without furthering censorship? Is building a nutrition label for credible content a feasible concept for the future? In this talk, I’ll look at what nutrition labels can teach us about misinformation — namely, the decontextualization and industrialization of food necessitated food labeling systems. The same is true now of information. Because of memes, misleading titles, paywalls and other dynamics, we are losing the context in which our food is produced. Maybe there’s something we can learn from the history of nutrition labels and education to help folks navigate our new media ecosystem.