Disinformation is the ‘threat of a generation,’ but Canada is struggling to deal with it: National security adviser::Advances in AI have pushed disinformation and misinformation campaigns to a new level of effectiveness and covertness, says Jody Thomas.
We all are in this situation. We are officially in a post truth era and capitalism in part led us here. Truth don’t matter when you got money
California is requiring kids to take media literacy courses that teach them to think critically and challenge what they read, which I think is a good start but the rich use the media corps they bought to push false narratives world wide, there’s only so much you can do to prepare a kid for that kind of insidious bullshit.
Fools are easily parted with their money, and I typically view a lot of misinformation as ways to seek out those exact fools. Not all of it, but a lot.
Take a bunch of crazy people that polite society doesn’t agree with, make them feel seen, and they throw money at you.
That’s scamming. Modern political misinformation’s goal is maybe to convince but primarily to flood you with shit, muddy the waters such that you lose your ability to discern the truth in a reasonable time frame and abandon action, jam the machine, - “eh, both the same”, “eh, middle ground”, “eh, who knows who’s right”, “don’t want to get involved”.
Kleptocracy loves that. It’s very successful too - see climate change action, public transport, the current supreme court etc.