The 21st century will be largely defined by massive disinformation campaigns and information warfare at a scale never seen before enabled by social media.
If the Democratic system is to survive such campaigns it must develop a major apparatus to protect itself.
If the Democratic system is to survive such campaigns it must develop a major apparatus to protect itself.
Who needs to go to war when you can make a country destroy itself by electing strong men populists, convince people vaccines don’t work and their government leaders are a bunch of child eating pedophiles?
We have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
We have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
There’s a lot of ways “protecting itself” could go horribly wrong and certainly people way more qualified then myself should work on it to avoid that.
But I imagine a good place to start would be significantly increasing funding for education and public media like PBS to remove the profit driven sensationalism that has also made everything so much worse.
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