Would Plato tweet? The Ancient Greek guide to social media

Would Plato tweet? The Ancient Greek guide to social media. As may be evidenced by the "Information warfare" of the present day, Plato perceived that problems may arise when the competitive performance of wisdom is indistinguishable from the true possession of it. So Plato set himself the task of distinguishing the true philosophers, the sincere and genuine "Lovers of wisdom", from the sophists, whose apparent wisdom may be a mere performance of intellectualism for their own gain. To combat the problem of distinguishing desirable from undesirable information - good from bad influencers - Plato introduced an infamous degree of censorship into his theoretical city. For as the spectre of disinformation looms over us, there are many who feel that social media platforms themselves be called upon to sift the good information from the bad. The question then becomes whether those who control them possess the discernment that marks the "True philosopher." Plato imagined a Philosopher-King, but would that extend to Philosopher-Admins too? As a devotee of mathematics and the metaphysical primacy of formal patterns, perhaps Plato would have looked toward the Philosopher-Algorithm. Our senses, Plato holds, are inadequate to grasp the true nature of reality, and so the things we take for real are in fact mere images. Drawing on ideas that reached back to Plato and in turn to some of the pre-Socratics, the school of Stoicism conceived of the entire cosmos as a living organism, a unitary entity of which we form a part.