The problem of trumpers violence based on disinformation is clearly escalating, and their information “fix” is consuming disinformation sources like Fox News & Entertainment and QAnon—exclusively, and for some, all day long. We know the more a falsehood is repeated, the more likely it is to be believed. So thinking out loud, drying up …
The problem of trumpers violence based on disinformation is clearly escalating, and their information “fix” is consuming disinformation sources like Fox News & Entertainment and QAnon—exclusively, and for some, all day long. We know the more a falsehood is repeated, the more likely it is to be believed. So thinking out loud, drying up the source of their “drug” would be the intention of a new Fairness Doctrine.
But addressing the problem of drug and alcohol addiction has shifted from prohibition to prevention through consumer education. Food for thought.
In part, I hope that "deplatforming" their views will slow the spread of falsehoods. The other part, of course, is that they will seek other, clandestine, avenues of spreading misinformation.
My hope is that good people (there are plenty of us left, alive and kicking) will continue to find and "out" these clandestine networks. I think of the Twitter account @Parlertakes -- still active after Parler itself has been taken down.
The problem of trumpers violence based on disinformation is clearly escalating, and their information “fix” is consuming disinformation sources like Fox News & Entertainment and QAnon—exclusively, and for some, all day long. We know the more a falsehood is repeated, the more likely it is to be believed. So thinking out loud, drying up the source of their “drug” would be the intention of a new Fairness Doctrine.
But addressing the problem of drug and alcohol addiction has shifted from prohibition to prevention through consumer education. Food for thought.
In part, I hope that "deplatforming" their views will slow the spread of falsehoods. The other part, of course, is that they will seek other, clandestine, avenues of spreading misinformation.
My hope is that good people (there are plenty of us left, alive and kicking) will continue to find and "out" these clandestine networks. I think of the Twitter account @Parlertakes -- still active after Parler itself has been taken down.
More power to them!