Disinformation

Read with FakeNews and TheEndOfConsensus and DisinformationVsScience

How big a threat is it to democracy? https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/11/how-big-a-threat-does-misinformation-pose-to-democracy/

How they made us doubt everything : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l7q0

This is good. MikeCaulfield on recalibrating our approach to it :

https://www.edsurge.com/amp/news/2018-12-19-recalibrating-our-approach-to-misinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html

Transcluded from ThirteenWaysOfLookingAtDisinformation

A very good critique, by JacobSiegell of the concept of Disinformation / FakeNews / FactChecking etc. and how it's playing into the hands of a TechnoCrat elite who are trying to censor and delegitimize any challenges to their power.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation

Worth reading.

ThePowerOfLies is a documentary about lying in politics.

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