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You shouldn’t. Yes, people can’t handle the speech of their peers because some of their peers are specialists in messaging. They’ve been doing it before the i
by intended 8y ago
You shouldn’t.
Yes, people can’t handle the speech of their peers because some of their peers are specialists in messaging.
They’ve been doing it before the internet. Heck, America taught the world that facts don’t matter by concocting the anti-vaxx movement and creationism.
Both were designed, or happened, to target weakness in human thinking.
It’s a brave new world out there now with the internet.
Verification is harder than content generation. If I flood the right network then it’s members will also be influenced because their trusted sources are also going to be repeating similar ideas.
And yes, the speech of their peers is deluding their sense of reality, literally.
https://www.pnas.org/content/113/3/554 https://www.pnas.org/content/113/3/554
Hey, bread and circuses worked for Rome for a while didn’t it.
Edit: changed anti-vas’s to anti-vaxx
- Mirioron 8y agoDo you understand that these journalists are the "experts in messaging"? These are the very people that push fake stories. Look at the whole Russia collusion story or Covington. Both of these were pushed hard by journalists using the immense power of their publications. Yet we're fairly certain that both of these were wrong and abuses of power by those journalists. In today's age you cannot trust what a journalist says if they don't have proof that they can show you.
- intended 8y agoSubject A: An actual expert in messaging: http://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM116_luntz.pdf http://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM116_luntz.pdf That is a reference document I would use to show people how to do messaging effectively. While there may be people who can do that in the media as well, but in general this is a dark art suited to people who want to MAKE reality and not just report reality.
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