No autocracy survives where facts are free. “Epistemic capture,” the systematic engineering of the information environment, isn’t a side tactic, but the core of authoritarian strategy. When truth is monopolized, democracy unravels.

Ch 6: The Architecture of Epistemic Collapse: Engineering a Post-Truth State

https://hemlockcollective.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-epistemic-collapse/

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