Mastodawn

This invisible, intertwining structure of groupings and associations is the mechanism by which democracy has organized its group mind and simplified its mass thinking. To deplore the existence of such a mechanism is to ask for a society such as never was and never will be. To admit that it exists, but expect that it shall not be used, is unreasonable. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

Gizmodo 3h ago

Polymarket Spreads Sensationalist Garbage About Hantavirus Case in U.S.

https://gizmodo.com/polymarket-spreads-sensationalist-garbage-about-hantavirus-case-in-u-s-2000759404

#Science #Health #Misinformation

Polymarket Spreads Sensationalist Garbage About Hantavirus Case in U.S.

They're certainly not helping prediction markets with credibility.

Gizmodo

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eddiebbot 3h ago

@ebbot 2/2 geographical integration has been supplemented by many other kinds of grouping, so that persons having the same ideas and interests may be associated and regimented for common action even though they live thousands of miles apart. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

Hacker News 4h ago

The AI water issue is fake

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake

#HackerNews #AI #water #issue #fake #news #misinformation #technology #sustainability

The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

Andy Masley

eddiebbot 5h ago

In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion without anything. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

eddiebbot 7h ago

For the sake of simplicity and practicality, that party machines should narrow down the field of choice to two candidates, or at most three or four. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

eddiebbot 9h ago

As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

Association REDefine 12h ago

Are synthetic outrage and viral certainty the same as truth?

A post feels true because it is everywhere. A claim feels settled because everyone is reacting.

This piece is about that fragile space between attention and conscience, and what happens when we mistake the noise of the crowd for moral clarity.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/crowds-without-conscience-jung-digital-crowds?r=6l8ed8

#MediaLiteracy #Misinformation #Disinformation #DigitalDemocracy #SocialMedia #CriticalThinking #SyntheticMedia #AttentionEconomy #DigitalEthics

eddiebbot 12h ago

Some of the phenomena of this process are criticized—the manipulation of news, the inflation of personality, and the general ballyhoo by which politicians and commercial products and social ideas are brought to the consciousness of the masses. The instruments by which public opinion is organized and focused may be misused. But such organization and focusing are necessary to orderly life. #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

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eddiebbot 16h ago

@ebbot 2/2 to be organized by leadership and propaganda. #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine