Raging against the Twitter machine for the past four years—pushing truth in a time of mass deception, smoking out those perpetuating crimes against humanity—it doesn’t end here.
We’re going to need a social movement combined with the power of the military to beat back the evil.
Countries like Sweden, Denmark, and Finland are already beating disinformation. Government programs and well-educated citizens give each a fighting chance.
We don’t have to be locked in a psych war forever. Many countries have taken action: the EU has data privacy laws, Germany banned hate speech. We must take action against the changing playing field.
Our data is being weaponized against us, weaponized against democratic nations.
FEAR PEDDLERS: “If you’re wondering why British political discourse began to degrade, look no further than the arrival of American right-wing conservatism via both the funding of activists and new media outlets which propagated their message.”-@peterjukes bylinetimes.com/2020/11/17/cit…
BANNON🤡+MERCER🧟:
“UK’s culture wars were triggered by a US Supreme Court ruling over free speech. Free speech was the wedge by which formerly marginal expressions of xenophobic nationalism, racism, and Islamophobia could become central in Britain’s public debate.”-@peterjukes
CAMBRIDGE DATA CRIMES: “It didn’t matter if many voices expressing these opinions online were paid for by multiple accounts, boosted by dark digital analytics, or indeed often outright replicants run by troll farms hosted and funded by hostile foreign countries.”-@peterjukes
🤡“Putin has done many things for which he could be held liable..rigging elections, jailing opponents, silencing media, and other abuses of power.. deposed dictators are rarely treated under the rules they had written. Just ask Pinochet.”-@vkaramurza washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…#wapo