The one tool more effective than censorship is noise

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

Why censor truth when you can flood the comm channels with tons of misleading, fabricated, utterly bonkers conspiracy theory bullshit? If 99% is fake news, chances are the people won’t belive that remaining 1%.

That’s why Donny et all keeps yelling “freedom of speech” at the top of their lungs in Europe’s general direction. That’s what’s at stake. If Europe imposes journalism standards on social media, it is that much harder to spin crap. Lying to get the power actually works. If Donnie gets his way, Brexit will in retrospect be a mere appetiser.

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Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is what Russia did in the 90s onward. No one knows what the truth is anymore and it has made it impossible to get everyone behind a unified cause such as ousting Putin.

It is not a coincidence that the same thing is happening here. Russia has long failed to compete with western democracies, especially economically, and has found success in undermining them as they have their own people. This makes them easier to control, to weaken, and ultimately, defeat.

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- Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Trump does this as well
  
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  - Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    True—Trump is obviously a Russian agent based on a wealth of evidence. At best, he is making decisions that mirror Russian goals, at worst, he’s directed.
    
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- flamingleg@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  russiagating is 2026? catch up
  
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone” strategy.

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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
AI is going to make this so much worse. It can make unlimited fake news including ohoti and video ‘evidence’. And everyone can have their own to fit their preferred personal narrative. We truly do live in times.

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TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah honestly I feel that’s the universal problem the world in general has.

What’s worse, our “vetted” sources have all been compromised. Mainstream news is corrupt as hell… all owned by a tiny portion of rich assholes. As trust in them wanes, the focus moves to the “independent” creators on youtube, and instagram influencers, podcastors etc…

Of which many of them are actually getting paid by the same billionares, as scandal after scandal shows, and of course rich monstrocities like Meta, Google, Musk… have the power to signal boost the ones they want to, and to minimize the growth of ones they don’t.

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lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If Europe imposes journalism standards on social media, it is that much harder to spin crap.

The Fediverse is social media. What kind of journalism standards would be imposed upon it?

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thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Alternately: obfuscate it with boredom. Ever try to read through the tax code? You could put whatever you want in there and publicly read it, and nobody’s awake for it. Secrecy and conspiracy are infinitely more interesting than boredom.

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boogiebored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s a tactic of it doesn’t matter what you say, just keep the attention. It’s why Trump cannot shut the fuck up for .1 second.

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LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They call it Chaff I think. Information warfare needs media consolidation, ownership by the ruling class and chaff- flood the zone with bullshit, leverage the ‘strategic unpredictability’ of the administration, focus on the fucking west wing ballroom, the statues, the hamburgers. And gaslight everyone constantly.

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FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I forget what it was but I saw a video about some sort of conspiracy theory and thought if it were true the video would get taken down. Then I thought actually, having it taken down would just make it look true.

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solidheron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Noise is effective, but I feel like the noise would have to evolve and get More intelligent, which I guess would be ai deep fake series with , unirinically, crisis actors.

I only say it has to evolve because people would recognize the pattern of meaningless distractions and start to ask questions. Weather or not people would pursue answers or get a source that question the set of noise would be platform based or based on the person initiative.

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