“Disinformation” is the new disinformation.
We’re seeing an intentional and coordinated effort by established gatekeepers to equate political speech they don’t like with the entirely separate categories of doctored deep fakes, illegal content, and deceptive cheap fakes.
We’re seeing an intentional and coordinated effort by established gatekeepers to equate political speech they don’t like with the entirely separate categories of doctored deep fakes, illegal content, and deceptive cheap fakes.
2) Continuing to intentionally blur the line between those categories of speech is not without cost.
It silences lawful political speech, and it makes it harder to identify and build consensus around definitions for doctored deep fakes and truly deceptively manipulated media.
It silences lawful political speech, and it makes it harder to identify and build consensus around definitions for doctored deep fakes and truly deceptively manipulated media.
3) That’s their point.
Political actors are working the refs. They don’t care about fighting disinformation; they care about winning their political fight.
If they can win by blurring the line between political speech & disinformation, they will- harms to the public be damned.
Political actors are working the refs. They don’t care about fighting disinformation; they care about winning their political fight.
If they can win by blurring the line between political speech & disinformation, they will- harms to the public be damned.
