Oh good we get to have this fucking conversation all over again like we do every fucking year and yet no one seems to think that there might be disinformation working on people in disinfo spaces
I can already tell that I'm about to have one of those days where I either alienate or worry everybody, so I should probably not be online. But holy shit, people, listen to yourselves. We've been having the same conversation for EIGHT years now
I'm not intentionally picking on specific people so I apologize, this stupid "misinfo" bullshit is everywhere and I hate everything. Next, everyone is going to rediscover something called "disinformation" and float the idea of using artificial intelligence to fight it
And then we can talk about how to teach fighting "fake news" in schools, just like we have for years to no avail, and by the way how are we going to have anti-disinfo programs if spineless politicians can't even countenance teaching history in the face of inauthentic moral panics
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Hey so if you all had listened to me back in January and February 2021, this wouldn't have happened. But all the "very serious journalists" decided that they knew better
But that's all right, because those same "very serious journalists" have declared that the problem of "misinformation" isn't as big a deal as everybody thought!
Or maybe they're just bad at their jobs in a time of unprecedented crisis and lack the chops to understand what they're failing to prevent -- a dire security flaw during a protracted, ongoing disinformation attack. But what do they care, right? They're fine.
Governments really need to get their shit together. Debunkers and researchers have been warning about this loud and clear, just like we did every other time.
They're harassing and attacking people for being women, for being not white, for wearing masks. They're honking and revving their engines all day and all night to prevent people from sleeping. Whatever else anyone else wants to think about this, it is an attack.
And it's global, and it's far right, and why do you think they're in Ottawa? What's their stated goal?