The organization name is ominous but I learned about "truth decay" last night. According to a report from the RAND Corporation, what we're seeing today in terms

The organization name is ominous but I learned about "truth decay" last night. According to a report from the RAND Corporation, what we're seeing today in terms of "fake news" is not new at all, and has been seen multiple times in the last century usually after a disruption in the communication industry like newspapers, radio, and television. I don't know about fake/manufactured consensus through multiple accounts but Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media) would probably argue that that's not that new either- maybe just with a different face or in this case, faces. According to On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder, democracies fail all the time easily. You go to sleep in a democracy, you wake up the next morning in a fascist state. You lose rights, you lose the ability to vote in elections, and then within a month you're in a "state of emergency" aka a fascist state for the next 12 years (Germany) or still to this day (Russia). Snyder's book shows that tyranny or fascism is a deliberate systemic process. Link to truth decay article: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/opinions/truth-decay-opinion-rich-kavanagh/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/opinions/truth-decay-opinion-...