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If there is control over information, how do the masses protect themselves against disinformation campaigns coming from official sources? Conspiracy theories a
by ccsnags 6y ago
If there is control over information, how do the masses protect themselves against disinformation campaigns coming from official sources?
Conspiracy theories and baseless nonsense is the price you pay to be able to criticize those in power. It is a price worth paying.
- AgentME 6y agoIndependent fact checkers not associated with government authorities (like what Twitter is doing in this case) seems like one solution. I'm really bugged by the leap of logic that fact checkers will supposedly always parrot the government line, when even this specific thread itself is about a fact checker existing that's going against the president's line.
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