Read it and download it yourself. Before they memory hole this monstrosity. The deep state is deeply concerned about uncontrolled media and is working on censorship. Their biggest concern is not “disinformation”, but rather “post-truth”. Disinformation would be an incorrect fact, but post-truth would be a rejection of a subjective truth. The real issue is not what you read, but what you think.
They view fact checking and online banning as bandaids. Fact checking will refute unauthorized talking points without explicitly repeating them (strawmanning) to ensure that you don’t hear it from them too. Banning will be sold as purging fake accounts. All of that is reactive though. Their main goal is a proactive propaganda service to get out ahead of “fake news”.
The ascendancy of disinformation and its political ramifications could also arise as a result of a paradigm shift we are experiencing but have simply not yet adapted to. In his book,The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver argues that the disruption we are currently experiencing is no different from the “information overload” experienced after the creation of the printing press is 1440. Silver argues that the sudden accessibility of large quantities of information can overwhelm society. He argues that too much useless and poor-quality information results in increased isolation and polarization driving people to down select—that is, actively reducing the number of choices they consider—to limited sources of information and simplified narratives that fit our preconceived biases.
As professional curators and gatekeepers dwindle and are replaced by self-appointed and unaccountable ones, individuals are forced to assess information in ways for which they are not trained.
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RampancyLambentRaven ago
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/Sovereign_Challenge_Report_091718_web.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20181015034247/http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/Sovereign_Challenge_Report_091718_web.pdf
Read it and download it yourself. Before they memory hole this monstrosity. The deep state is deeply concerned about uncontrolled media and is working on censorship. Their biggest concern is not “disinformation”, but rather “post-truth”. Disinformation would be an incorrect fact, but post-truth would be a rejection of a subjective truth. The real issue is not what you read, but what you think.
They view fact checking and online banning as bandaids. Fact checking will refute unauthorized talking points without explicitly repeating them (strawmanning) to ensure that you don’t hear it from them too. Banning will be sold as purging fake accounts. All of that is reactive though. Their main goal is a proactive propaganda service to get out ahead of “fake news”.