NEW: Leaked State Dept memo obtained by America First Legal reveals US gov't is producing VIDEO GAMES with taxpayer dollars for “psychological vaccination against fake news.”
— Foundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom) November 18, 2022
Their plan is to stop populism on social media. Full report here:https://t.co/Yc8IxrdHfv
This strange belief in the persuasive power of cat videos seems to go back a ways, specifically, to one year ago when the New York Times warned all right-thinking Americans that online cat videos might harbor misinformation (i.e., unacceptable opinion, or at most, quibbling over definitions).
Here's that story from December 2021. And, since that story was behind a paywall, here's the WaPo's article about that NYT article.
There was once a time when you needed a shortwave radio to hear good propaganda, which I used to do over Radio Moscow. When the propagandists of the old USSR wanted to stretch a point or zoom past some questionable logic, they would simply preface a statement with the phrase "as is well known." A good forthright lie, and nothing that would trouble an audience that was already listening to Radio Moscow.
I like that approach much better than the complicated rationalization schemes that lie behind our global engagement center's ridiculous cartoons.
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