"Online media has given voice to previously marginalised groups, including peddlers of untruth, and has supercharged the tools of deception at their disposal. The transmission of falsehoods now spans a viral cycle in which AI, professional trolls and our own content-sharing activities help to proliferate and amplify misleading claims. These new developments have come on … Continue reading The Misinformation Virus
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Is This Fascism?
"'You submit to tyranny,' Snyder writes, 'when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.'" —Snyder, Timothy. "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century" quoted in Gumbel, Andrew. "Is This Fascism?" Los Angeles Review of Books. July 24, 2017. Interesting discussion throughout regarding the Trump presidency. … Continue reading Is This Fascism?
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