Economics section drowns in noise and nobody restores order

Economics drowns in noise: who restores order?

In some digital corner, a request has been crying out for the junk to be removed and the economics section to be recovered. The remark, made in anger, sums up a growing unease: spaces devoted to economic analysis increasingly appear invaded by content that has nothing to do with the subject. It is not just bad manners; it is a symptom of how information noise is displacing the data.

The responses to the call for a clean-up are revealing. Some advise using the ignore function, as if the problem were individual rather than collective. Others propose simply renaming the section 'general', because there is little economics left in it. And some go further: they claim that economics is one big lie, that nobody cares about the truth and that sensationalism is what sells. This cynicism is not new, but its presence in a supposedly technical space is worrying.

The heart of the matter is trust. If even economic content turns into noise, readers end up believing nothing. Calls for moderation run into a reality: those responsible for keeping order in these communities are often conspicuous by their absence, and when they do show up, they sometimes add more noise than solutions.

Meanwhile, the request goes unanswered. And what is unsettling is not the amount of junk, but that nobody is surprised any more. Tolerance of information noise has become the new normal: a textbook economic problem, but without an instruction manual.