Karl
The amount of disinformation on the internet about any notable event is as shocking as ever, and pretty scary.
Is it getting worse, has it always been this hard to get the ‘truth’?
My ‘believe nothing’ ethos always comes in handy.
I can’t help but think a majority of other people don’t think this way.
Oct 8, 2023 at 11:44pmWeb
Show threadPseudonymous Oct 8, 2023
@ITKarl
You could schedule this message to be posted over again every 11 days, just to line up with whatever else is in the news cycle at the time.
Show threadKarlOct 9, 2023
@VictimOfSimony I am fully aware this has been an issue for a long time.
But in recent years, everything feels so calculated, in the past it was easy to decipher a troll or state actor against a genuine person posting a video.
Nowadays, it feels like the platforms themselves are playing a larger part in the spread of disinformation rather than it being a free-for-all.
I mean, It’s going to be the fact that everyone is on the internet now and is a lot of people’s main way of consuming media.
Show threadPseudonymous Oct 9, 2023
@ITKarl
#Observations
Useful point A: Certain autocratic countries have always had a hot head about "the West's media" trying to truthfully report the news.
Useful point B: To overthrow a democracy (the C.I.A. isn't the only one) Russia prefers to use a lot of propaganda.
Useful point C: Big picture geopolotical strategy by China tends to be more pragmatic & less idealistic, while Russia tends to be more like proselytizing a religion.
Useful point D: A few years back the intel that was circulating was that strategists in Russia/China wanted to use social media to make the public in democracies distrust their traditional media.
Useful point E: America has a cosmopolitan hybrid society that has lots of segments. Some of those segments are businesses that would commit treason for a better quarterly report.
Useful point F: Our intelligence strategy is based around corporate partnership & continuity that ignores principles in favor of persistent membership of those in the ruling class.
Useful point G: China has no compunction against just printing money to fund little war chests. They lie about the yuan anyway.
Therefore: We can't out-capitalism spies. We could out-fact the propaganda but we'd have to nationalize YouTube & Twitter. To fix this problem we have to be willing to act against our own intelligence apparatus.