"There has been a massive change in how we access information that has taken place over the last few months. Our ability to find out what's happening, much less analyze it, has been greatly marred by changes in media and technology." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/gop-deat…
"You may have noticed that an enormous number of mainstream news sources are now paywalled. You won't be able to read beyond the headline. The struggle of MSM to be profitable is very old, but the timing is disastrous for democracy." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/gop-deat…
"We're dealing with a mass disinformation crisis. We're dealing with a mass public health crisis. But the most accurate places for info are now inaccessible or their content is partially screenshotted and taken out of context." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/gop-deat…
"This has an effect on interpreting not only the present, but the past. As Orwell said, who controls the past controls the future. The crimes of Trump's cohort which were once all documented in the public domain are no longer there." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/gop-deat…
"More journalists have gone independent. But if you are an independent journalist, you now cannot read all the paywalled articles. You're locked out from reading other journalism. It's reminiscent of academia's paywalled insularity." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/gop-deat…
"Part of fighting autocracy is not only getting information from the media but understanding how the media manipulates information. The best way to decide who to trust is to examine many outlets over time. This is now impossible because it's unaffordable." patreon.com/posts/gop-deat…
"So what information is still free? FOX News. Right-wing propaganda sites. Facebook memes. Twitter trolls and paid operatives. Social media gossip. Decontextualized pieces of text, stripped of their author or date of publication." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/gop-deat…
"Disinformation is free. It's filling in the gaps while nearly every other source of information has been paywalled or put out of business." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/gop-deat…
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