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Why should I believe this? My brain said this to me as a snarky comment. But further reflection yielded insight that is probably already obvious to you: Disin
by watersb 7y ago
Why should I believe this?
My brain said this to me as a snarky comment. But further reflection yielded insight that is probably already obvious to you:
Disinformation attack isn't intended to promote any particular claim or narrative. If you happen to believe the nonsense, maybe that's a nice bonus for the attacker. But they are aiming for something far more insidious.
They want you to believe that nothing is true, that truth simply cannot be discovered, that anyone claiming to do so simply wants attention for personal gain.
So of course Russia, as a state actor, has mastered this technique.
- krageon 7y ago> Russia All countries use disinformation, with the larger regimes being significantly more dystopic. It's not useful to point the finger at a single one, except to spread propaganda further.
- watersb 7y agoMy only direct experience with Russia is a month during the summer of 1990. Walking around the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg, almost every street corner a small table set up, someone selling old books they had kept hidden for decades. People crowding around, seeking words written before Stalinist purge. Living with friends that summer, I would ask about these books (my grasp of Russian became sufficient to find my way around the organized city center, but I couldn't read much of the books, although some were engineering texts). They would smile and say. "Well, we are re-writing history once again." Noam Chomsky makes it abundantly clear that US culture is no different in regard to historical narrative. But I haven't had that pervasive sense that there is no such thing as a true story, not in the US, not until these past few years.