Some stories have a dark side. Should we support those storytellers among us who use stories for immoral and unethical ends?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/01/stories-have-dark-side
#meetings #EventDesign #stories #ethics #AlternativeFacts #DutyOfCare #eventprofs
*#SocialMedia and the #Fediverse*
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"...Different people disagree. Different contexts clash. Feedback exposes gaps..."
Sigh; this is exactly what I miss not having the old #Twitter anymore.
I have contacts here on different continents, in different walks of life and stages if life, but we have to admit that--in contrast to the old Twitter--we live in a (luckily) "sanitized #DMZ" 1): those with opposing #AlternativeFacts-indoctrinated,..
1) DMZ = Demilitarized Zone
“Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’.”
― Tony Schwartz
#Bot #Quote #AlternativeFacts #CompulsiveLiar #Contradiction #Contradictory #Deceit #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrump #Grandiosity #Hyperbole #Liar #Lies #Lying #LyingToOthers #PathologicalLiar #SelfAggrandizing #SelfDeception #TruthfulHyperbole
2018 Apocalyptic News Distortions
Crafting a fake reality spreading lies for profit is yet another reason I won’t be consuming any advertising content along with overly dramatic commentary and annoying music and sound effects interrupted by brief interspersed footage of exclusively American athletes in a global sports competition in winter.
#CitizensUnited
#AlternativeFacts
#SportsAdvertising
#WinterOlympics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast
RE: https://toot.community/@swanksalot/116031817059061701
Crafting a fake reality spreading lies for profit is yet another reason I won’t be consuming any advertising content along with overly dramatic commentary and annoying music and sound effects interrupted by brief interspersed footage of exclusively American athletes in a global sports competition in winter.
#CitizensUnited
#AlternativeFacts
#SportsAdvertising
#WinterOlympics
Mike Pompeo now says Israel is the real victim in Gaza, which is true if you measure suffering in units of awkward press conferences rather than, say, dead children or bombed hospitals. But don’t worry—if Palestinians lose their history, Pompeo’s got plenty of alternative facts to spare.
https://polititoons.com/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=polititoons_organic
#politics #satire #humor #politicalhumor #PoliticalSatire #MiddleEastConflict #AlternativeFacts
Philosophy of Alternative Facts
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=24&id=15
Trump’s lying has always been characterized by dogged repetition. It became especially repetitive in 2025. While he continued to regularly sprinkle in new lies, he relied on a core set of go-to fabrications he deployed virtually no matter the setting and no matter how many times they had been debunked. Did you hear about how Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in investment? You probably did if you watched even a few Trump speeches or interviews. Same with the one about how consumer prices have fallen this year, about how Trump ended seven or eight wars, and about how foreign leaders around the world emptied their prisons and mental institutions to send unwanted citizens across the US border as migrants. Here is our highly subjective list of Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025. We chose some because the president repeated them particularly often, some because they were about notably consequential topics, and some because they were especially egregious in their distance from reality. https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/politics/analysis-donald-trumps-top-25-lies-of-2025
Some stories have a dark side. Should we support those storytellers among us who use stories for immoral and unethical ends?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/01/stories-have-dark-side
#meetings #EventDesign #stories #ethics #AlternativeFacts #DutyOfCare #eventprofs
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