British officer: "How bad is the news?"
Dutch woman: "Who knows? Some say the Germans are being beaten back. Others say they've already occupied Amsterdam. There is no truth left in Holland."
– Spoken in "Operation Amsterdam" (Rank Organisation, 1959) at about 21 min.
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
In a conversation about the information disorder we're all grappling with, I found myself saying that the constant barrage of existentially bad news from Washington these past few months has been wearing me down, making me dumber.
Institute for the Study of War: "US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff uncritically amplified a number of Russian demands, claims, and justifications regarding the war in Ukraine during an interview on March 21.…"
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-22-2025
#RussiaIsATerroristState #disinformation #InformationDisorder #СлаваУкраїні
US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff uncritically amplified a number of Russian demands, claims, and justifications regarding the war in Ukraine during an interview on March 21. Witkoff told American media personality Tucker Carlson in an
Started rereading a little book I enjoyed when it first came out: Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time (Workman Publishing, 2017).
[#INFORMATIONDISORDER] Such a pleasure to read again the dense and smart thoughts of @cward1e encouraging us to stop using "fake news", to better look at "narratives" (and less at the "atoms of content), to promote "good stuff" rather than fighting "bad stuff"...
Thanks to @N_Henin, who spotted this article.
Mark R. Stoneman
DisruptionNetworkLab
Serge Courrier