Independent Journalists—The Guardians & the War on Truth—Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oo—are @TIME's Person of the Year 2018 #TIMEPOY Read the entire piece. It's dark b/c it describes well the authoritarian assault. bit.ly/2EmStYV 
@TIME "Such independence is no small thing. It marks the distinction between tyranny and democracy. And in a world where budding authoritarians have advanced by blurring the difference, there was a clarity in the spectacle of a tyrant’s fury visited upon a man armed only with a pen."
@TIME Decades after the Cold War defeat of crude autocracy, a more clever brand takes nourishment from the murk that surrounds us. Old-school despots embraced censorship. Modern ones foment mistrust of fact, thrive on confusion loosed by social media, fashion illusion of legitimacy.
@TIME #TIMEPOY includes a great quote from @dpatrikarakos: Unlike traditional #propaganda, modern #misinformation "tries to muddy the waters. It tries to sow as much confusion and as much misinformation as possible, so that when people see the truth, they find it harder to recognize.”
@TIME #TIMEPOY @mariaressa: “I think the biggest problem that we face right now is that the beacon of democracy, the one that stood up for both human rights and press freedom—the United States—now is very confused. What are the values of the United States?” #Journalists #TheGuardians
@TIME #TIMEPOY does a great job of presenting the war on truth waged by autocrats around the world using social & propaganda media to drown, muddy facts and discredit truth-guardians. Journalists are on the frontlines of tyranny. Support them & independent press time.com/person-of-the-…
