The Disinformation Industry
A good piece of journalism on the concept and practices surrounding "disinformation", carried out by actors we might not usually associate with disinformation:
In my view, this is probably the central societal problem of our times - actors trying to get a monopoly on information, and thus a monopoly on your thoughts.
A whole new vocabulary has been conjured to disguise what is in essence propaganda and censorship. It has also been extremely successful however, and therefore extremely dangerous to those who value objective, rational and independent thought.
That's why I figured I'd share it here.
In my view, this is probably the central societal problem of our times - actors trying to get a monopoly on information, and thus a monopoly on your thoughts.
A whole new vocabulary has been conjured to disguise what is in essence propaganda and censorship. It has also been extremely successful however, and therefore extremely dangerous to those who value objective, rational and independent thought.
That's why I figured I'd share it here.
Comments (10)
Thanks; that looks interesting. I can't watch on this computer, but will look for it at lunchtime.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/creature-of-the-right-james-ball/
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/02/22/revealed-the-shocking-tweets-of-gb-news-co-owner-sir-paul-marshall/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Responsible_Citizenship
This isn't about taking sides. This is about the degree to which the information landscape is being poisoned by all sides, including the ones at the top with the most power; and those seem to be the ones getting away with it, because many people still subconsciously treat those sources as authoritative.
If this 'Global Disinformation Index' business doesn't scream 1984, I don't know what does.
Oh yes it is. We are on the side of truth, and they are the enemy.
Indeed.
After a brief interlude, state actors and lobby groups have adapted perfectly to mold propaganda and censorship to the new media of the net and the new environment. The biggest advance is AI, even if just search engines have dramatically changed the game.
Typically police states simply have become overwhelmed by their own apparatus: in order to have total surveillance of the population, you simply needed far too many employees to listen to the conversations, to read all the letters. Then to process all the data has been the major problem. Now with computers and AI that's something totally possible.
Well, I would consider people who deliberately use propaganda and censorship to pursue their goals at the expense of others to be the enemy of reason and all things good - this much is true. It turns out there are a lot of such "enemies" out there.
Do you see things otherwise?
Why?