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Awful stuff. Super-helpful for my ideological pet-peeve, though, so I’m glad that I got an excuse to bring that up.

• qwertyuiop_ 4y ago
  Look no further than the Orwell Ministry of Truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Ministry_of_Truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-... and the current administrations attempt at establishing one https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-department-of-homeland-security-concludes-it-never-needed-a-disinformation-governance-board/ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-department-of-home...
  • staticassertion 4y ago
    The Ministry of Truth was not a fact checking system. It was where the past was rewritten, with entire wars and alliances being erased, and required all previous documents to be destroyed and replaced. The point was that if no record of the past exists except for what is inside of our minds, the past is whatever we believe it to be. Hence 2 + 2 = 5, O'Brien raises his fingers and asks "How many fingers am I holding up?" and Winston eventually "remembers" the "wrong" number. Fact checkers don't "rewrite" anything, they don't destroy previous articles of information, they don't have an army to go out and destroy old documents. Disinformation is a reasonable national security concern, it seems silly to think otherwise given that it's a very obvious and established weapon.
    • avgcorrection 4y ago
      Indeed, comrade. Disinformation threatens the fatherland.
      • staticassertion 4y ago
        It just sounds to me like you should actually read 1984.
        • avgcorrection 4y ago
          It sounds to me like you should read the user names of the people that you reply to.
• verisimi 4y ago
  When I first found out about this project, I was shocked. I hadn't realise that governments had gone/are going to such lengths to manage their populations.