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5. That's exactly the problem with disinformation -- those who use it KNOW that it takes more time to unpack its

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 03:16 PM

Oct 2023

'dis' part, and KNOW that it's much easier for its broader audience to drink it down as fact based political argument.

That "Marxist Communist" line, in this audience's mind, has already been threaded way back to Eisenhower, when Fred Koch's John Birch Society literally referred to him as a communist. Right then and there they got started on the last Republican who was elected without having to resort to election fraud or disinformation. It's now been in their DNA since Gingrich/Reagan days.

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Bellingcat: Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict [View all] ancianita Oct 2023 OP

google image search is very, very useful. mopinko Oct 2023 #1

Indeed. You instantly have ancianita Oct 2023 #6

If you meet the buddha on the road, kill him Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2023 #2

I read the book! And glad you've laid out so well what it means here. A helluva post, and many thanks. ancianita Oct 2023 #4

Example whereof I speak, obvious, but for analysis Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2023 #3

That's exactly the problem with disinformation -- those who use it KNOW that it takes more time to unpack its ancianita Oct 2023 #5