Wow. This journalist really missed the point. You can’t both say that the “eating the pets” meme campaign was disinformation and then say voters weren’t duped.
We can say that factually and objectively those lies were meant to demonize migrants and attack Harris.
We can say that factually and objectively those lies were meant to demonize migrants and attack Harris.
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This emerging hot take that misinformation was just some academic panic is mind-numbingly bad and reminiscent of attempts to frame climate science, etc… as hysteria.
www.politico.eu/article/nobo...
www.politico.eu/article/nobo...
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As well, the end game of disinformation isn’t elections, it’s changing culture and setting media agendas with lies and distortions.
No one should view the pursuit of truth as left vs right, but who has the power and resources to impose their own definition of the situation. Sociologists of expertise have studied this for over a century.
The right got mad at the ensuing (and very limited) enforcement of policies by tech companies, the only power player with the ability to do anything.
The question isn’t if academia was right for trying to explain this phenomenon, but who will continue now that it is forbidden knowledge.