Emil Ludwig represents Napoleon as 'ever on the watch for indications of public opinion; always listening to the voice of the people, a voice which defies calculation. ���Do you know,' he said in those days, ���what amazes me more than all else? The impotence of force to organize anything.' --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
#Disinformation
> [Die] Neuen deutschen #Medienmacher*innen #NdM ¹ … fordern „#Community Management“, das Fakten checkt und Kommentare moderiert, als neues journalistisches Berufsfeld anzuerkennen. ²
cc @iftas
¹ https://neuemedienmacher.de
² 31.1.2026 #verdi #MMM, #Journalismus in Zeiten von #BigTech
https://mmm.verdi.de/aktuelle-meldungen/journalismus-in-zeiten-von-big-tech-106395/
#FactChecking #Disinformation #Desinformation #FakeNews #Medien #Presse #SocialMedia #Moderation #CommunityManagement
This invisible, intertwining structure of groupings and associations is the mechanism by which democracy has organized its group mind and simplified its mass thinking. To deplore the existence of such a mechanism is to ask for a society such as never was and never will be. To admit that it exists, but expect that it shall not be used, is unreasonable. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
https://thedemocracydefender.substack.com/p/whos-behind-the-hard-right-in-canada
#canada #us #unitedstates #hungary #israel #venezuela #spain #argentina #poland #brazil #france #turkey #italy #india #netherlands
#idu #csfn #conservative #conservatives #democracy #disinformation #harper #trump #netanyahu #orban #gonzález #gonzalez #abascal #milei #duda #bolsonaro #bardella #erdogan #meloni #modi #wilders
@eddiebbot 2/2 geographical integration has been supplemented by many other kinds of grouping, so that persons having the same ideas and interests may be associated and regimented for common action even though they live thousands of miles apart. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
"The people who put their bodies on the line to record what was happening in Minneapolis revealed a valuable truth. The same tool that makes clicktatorship possible—the smartphone—can also be used against it."
#Trump #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #authoritarianism #lies #disinformation #InformationBubbles
/3
"The Trump administration maintained a unified front after the killing of Renee Good, arguing that agents were acting in self-defense, even when video evidence complicated their version of events.
Many of them attempted to follow the same playbook after federal officials killed Pretti. But the fiction has not held up."
#Trump #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #authoritarianism #lies #disinformation #InformationBubbles
/2
"Poster brain and authoritarianism reinforce each other: They thrive on conspiracy theories, lack all restraint, and jump to extreme solutions. ...
But the thing about bubbles is that sooner or later they burst."
~ Don Moynihan
#Trump #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #authoritarianism #lies #disinformation #InformationBubbles
/1
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/donald-trump-clicktatorship/685862/
In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion without anything. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
For the sake of simplicity and practicality, that party machines should narrow down the field of choice to two candidates, or at most three or four. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
@daarin My concern too is that such #ClickBait with #disinformation may actually incentivize someone to do these things and then get sued.
- That's also propably the reason why #MarkRober neither sells his #GlitterBombs nor incentivizes others to try the same.
But also car break - ins and "fencing" ain't even remotely as common in #Germany than the #USA, (espechally not the SFBA), because here people are way more suspicious and also shit's not that extreme here - yet...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/116010899260124383
Exactly. That’s why it’s hard to understand how people whose job is to deal with people can miss something so obvious.
Many politicians could benefit from reading more of Christian Stöcker’s work on disinformation.
ITmedia AI＋ (@itm_aiplus)
악의적 AI 집단이 사람으로 가장해 대량의 대화를 생성·배포함으로써 가짜 여론을 조성한다는 경고가 국제 연구팀에서 제기되었다. 이러한 '인간 흉내' AI 기반의 대규모 소통은 정보조작과 차세대 프로파간다 위협을 야기하며, 탐지·대응 기술과 규제·정책 정비의 필요성이 강조되고 있다.
Blocked by person refusing to believe a #Mathematics #textbook and #proofs because of a random #Wikipedia article that doesn't cite any Maths textbooks, and in fact has proofs in it that actually contradict the conclusion! (the series 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001,... never reaches zero, even as the series approaches infinity - it's a hyperbola with an asymptote of 0 - which you think would be self-evident, and yet here we are) Welcome to the #disinformation age! 😡
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
I had the honour to spend time with Exeter Young Greens today, talking all things Movement Media and #NewsClubs - including using CAPE to tackle #climate #disinformation
Huge thanks and a massively warm welcome to Mo-Me @EwanBods @_mills_m_ @g3orge_06 @serenprice0606 @gracecollings @Alex @alfierichardson53 @Angus @tabiburke and @shriya
Can't wait for the first Young Greens News Club in March at the Press House in Exeter!
Very disappointed in the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Giving a gold medal to the IDU, right-wing, cozying up to Orban, racist, misogynist, destroyer of democracy in Canada Stephen Harper, one of the worst Canadians in history.
#Harper #IDU #RoyalCanadianGeographicalSociety #oligarchs #authoritarian #DarkMoney #Disinformation #Canada
https://thedemocracydefender.substack.com/p/whos-behind-the-hard-right-in-canada
Some of the phenomena of this process are criticized���the manipulation of news, the inflation of personality, and the general ballyhoo by which politicians and commercial products and social ideas are brought to the consciousness of the masses. The instruments by which public opinion is organized and focused may be misused. But such organization and focusing are necessary to orderly life. #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
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