Intellectual Dark Web
The Intellectual Dark Web is a term coined by Eric Weinstein to describe the network of people engaging in good faith, sense-making discussion outside of institutions.
For background on the IDW, see the documentary Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web and Eric's short video explanation Why the "Intellectual Dark Web" has such a crazy name. (embeds below), and read Bari Weiss's 2018 Opinion article in The New York Times, Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web