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Ah, yes, the alleged unaccountable Cabals who have special backdoor access to our media! Where have I heard this before? Are you referring to PolitiFact, Snope
by rexpop 2y ago
Ah, yes, the alleged unaccountable Cabals who have special backdoor access to our media! Where have I heard this before?
Are you referring to PolitiFact, Snopes, Australian Associated Press, and FactCheck.org? They are not secret organizations with "back door" access any more so than Facebook's own customers are.
Centralized censorship? These are discrete organizations with diverse funding streams whose methodologies, funding sources, and affiliations are publicly available for scrutiny.
You are engaging in a deliberate strategy of obscurantism, weaponizing vague conspiratorial rhetoric to undermine institutional credibility. Your argument doesn't seek to illuminate, but to obfuscate - creating phantom threats of "unaccountable NGOs" while avoiding substantive evidence.
You're not analyzing fact-checking; you're performing reactionary theater, constructing a narrative of persecution that serves fascistic rhetorical goals. By casting yourself as a truth-teller battling imaginary censors, you're actually working to erode democratic discourse and sow mistrust in transparent, accountable information systems.
Your language reveals a classic fascist mobilizing technique: manufacturing a sense of crisis, positioning yourself as a heroic truth-teller against nebulous "elites", and systematically undermining shared epistemological frameworks. You're not critiquing - you're strategically destabilizing.
The function you serve is not intellectual engagement, but narrative warfare - spreading doubt, inflaming resentments, and creating fertile ground for authoritarian thinking by convincing people that no institution can be trusted except your preferred narrative.
- raxxor 2y ago> Where have I heard this before? Maybe in EU legislation where this privileged access is now mandated by law for every certified fact checker. Although these aren't conventional fact checkers, they just "flag" content. > Trusted flaggers are public and private actors with privileged access to internet platforms through which they can identify illegal and harmful content. Before DSA, trusted flaggers existed as a voluntary system. https://www.techpolicy.press/building-trust-in-the-digital-service-acts-trusted-flaggers/ https://www.techpolicy.press/building-trust-in-the-digital-s... > diverse funding streams They are not independent enough and would develop their own interests. > narrative of persecution that serves fascistic rhetorical goals. Yeah, fascists are known to flag content too. Otherwise this is complete conjecture. > no institution can be trusted No institution, which will always be dependent on government funding and special legislation, can be trusted to moderate internet content. That much is true.