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> The amount of breathless conclusion jumping from citizen journalists has been completely bananas as well. I saw a video on Instagram claiming (or at least in

> The amount of breathless conclusion jumping from citizen journalists has been completely bananas as well. I saw a video on Instagram claiming (or at least insinuating) that Epstein had access to all of Lifetouch's photos, because "the company is in the Epstein files!". Turns out, it was a single line item for $109 in what looked like banking records. In comparison, that same selection of files mentioned Whole Foods ~250 times. For those outside the US, Lifetouch does school photos for about half the schools in the US (or something like that) so you can understand how that's a thread that conspiracy theorists can pull on. But there's nothing there. Just a single payment to the company in a sea of thousands and thousands of normal, every day purchases.

nixosbestos 8mo ago
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- janalsncm 8mo ago
  There is a book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible” which you might want to consider before deciding truth doesn’t matter anymore. It describes an explicit strategy by the Kremlin to poison the information landscape with lies, half truths, and conspiracies. And amplify conflicting narratives. Eventually people stop caring about what is true anymore.
  - jrflowers 8mo ago
    nixosbestos’s comment was in response to a post about how an arbitrary brand new conspiracy theory didn’t have compelling evidence in the emails. It seems like saying “who cares” to what kind of reads like “technically there’s an infinite amount of conspiracy theories that aren’t proven in the emails” is saying the opposite of “truth doesn’t matter”
  - dunslandsboo 8mo ago
    Except you and everyone you agree with I'm sure
  - esseph 8mo ago
    > Eventually people stop caring about what is true anymore. In the age of easy to fake video, photos, audio, etc, who wouldn't be?
  - throw0101c 8mo ago
    > It describes an explicit strategy by the Kremlin to poison the information landscape with lies, half truths, and conspiracies. And amplify conflicting narratives. For someone who wants an intro to the subject, this 2016 paper by RAND is pretty good; 'The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model': > The experimental psychology literature suggests that, all other things being equal, messages received in greater volume and from more sources will be more persuasive. Quantity does indeed have a quality all its own. High volume can deliver other benefits that are relevant in the Russian propaganda context. First, high volume can consume the attention and other available bandwidth of potential audiences, drowning out competing messages. Second, high volume can overwhelm competing messages in a flood of disagreement. Third, multiple channels increase the chances that target audiences are exposed to the message. Fourth, receiving a message via multiple modes and from multiple sources increases the message's perceived credibility, especially if a disseminating source is one with which an audience member identifies. * https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html See also Steve Bannon's 'flood the zone' technique: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone Bannon seems to have connections with Epstein (who is may have links to Russia): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Connection_to_Jeffrey_Epstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Connection_to_Jef...
    - janalsncm 8mo ago
      “Flood the zone” is the speech version of what the Kremlin does. If it came out that some anti-Trump terrorists were actually backed by MAGA, it would be analogous to what the Kremlin does.
  - salawat 8mo ago
    Fuck the Kremlin. Corporate America calls the same damn thing marketing, advertising, sales, and public relations respectively.
    - olelele 8mo ago
      Thank you.
    - janalsncm 8mo ago
      Kind of. Corporate propaganda (ads) are very much still in the old Bush-era paradigm of “repeating a lie until it becomes true”. Coke and Pepsi don’t want you to believe “nothing is true”. They want you to believe their cola is superior. Coke isn’t going to waste money creating confusion about that topic. The Kremlin will amplify conflicting opinions. Even critics of the government. Later it will come out that those critics were sponsored by Putin, undermining any critics by association.

nixosbestos 8mo ago

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janalsncm 8mo ago
There is a book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible” which you might want to consider before deciding truth doesn’t matter anymore. It describes an explicit strategy by the Kremlin to poison the information landscape with lies, half truths, and conspiracies. And amplify conflicting narratives. Eventually people stop caring about what is true anymore.
- jrflowers 8mo ago
  nixosbestos’s comment was in response to a post about how an arbitrary brand new conspiracy theory didn’t have compelling evidence in the emails. It seems like saying “who cares” to what kind of reads like “technically there’s an infinite amount of conspiracy theories that aren’t proven in the emails” is saying the opposite of “truth doesn’t matter”
- dunslandsboo 8mo ago
  Except you and everyone you agree with I'm sure
- esseph 8mo ago
  > Eventually people stop caring about what is true anymore. In the age of easy to fake video, photos, audio, etc, who wouldn't be?
- throw0101c 8mo ago
  > It describes an explicit strategy by the Kremlin to poison the information landscape with lies, half truths, and conspiracies. And amplify conflicting narratives. For someone who wants an intro to the subject, this 2016 paper by RAND is pretty good; 'The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model': > The experimental psychology literature suggests that, all other things being equal, messages received in greater volume and from more sources will be more persuasive. Quantity does indeed have a quality all its own. High volume can deliver other benefits that are relevant in the Russian propaganda context. First, high volume can consume the attention and other available bandwidth of potential audiences, drowning out competing messages. Second, high volume can overwhelm competing messages in a flood of disagreement. Third, multiple channels increase the chances that target audiences are exposed to the message. Fourth, receiving a message via multiple modes and from multiple sources increases the message's perceived credibility, especially if a disseminating source is one with which an audience member identifies. * https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html See also Steve Bannon's 'flood the zone' technique: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone Bannon seems to have connections with Epstein (who is may have links to Russia): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Connection_to_Jeffrey_Epstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Connection_to_Jef...
  - janalsncm 8mo ago
    “Flood the zone” is the speech version of what the Kremlin does. If it came out that some anti-Trump terrorists were actually backed by MAGA, it would be analogous to what the Kremlin does.
- salawat 8mo ago
  Fuck the Kremlin. Corporate America calls the same damn thing marketing, advertising, sales, and public relations respectively.
  - olelele 8mo ago
    Thank you.
  - janalsncm 8mo ago
    Kind of. Corporate propaganda (ads) are very much still in the old Bush-era paradigm of “repeating a lie until it becomes true”. Coke and Pepsi don’t want you to believe “nothing is true”. They want you to believe their cola is superior. Coke isn’t going to waste money creating confusion about that topic. The Kremlin will amplify conflicting opinions. Even critics of the government. Later it will come out that those critics were sponsored by Putin, undermining any critics by association.