Posted on 02/04/2021 1:35:15 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The New York Times published an essay on Tuesday detailing a range of recommendations for the Biden administration to adopt to fix the “reality crisis” and “de-radicalize” citizens, including setting up a “reality czar” and “truth commission.”
The essay, penned by Times technology columnist Kevin Roose, accuses “millions of Americans” of embracing “hoaxes, lies and collective delusions” before questioning how to unite a country where these millions “have chosen to create their own version of reality.”
“I worry that unless the Biden administration treats conspiracy theories and disinformation as the urgent threats they are, our parallel universes will only drift further apart, and the potential for violent unrest and civic dysfunction will only grow,” Roose writes.
The author then states he contacted several “experts” seeking what actions the Biden administration could take “to help fix our truth-challenged information ecosystem, or at least prevent it from getting worse” and then provides the answers he was given.
Joan Donovan, a research director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, suggested that the Biden administration set up a “truth commission” led by those familiar with extremist factions including white supremacist groups and far-right militias behind the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot, in order to investigate the event.
Donovan describes such an effort as “similar to the 9/11 Commission,” which provided recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
The author then claims that experts suggested using “new and narrower labels” to distinguish between different types of movements and levels of influence within those movements.
Another recommendation Roose claims to have received from these experts is for the Biden administration to create a task force to “tackle disinformation and domestic extremism” and be led by “something like a ‘reality czar.’”
“It sounds a little dystopian, I’ll grant,”... .....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Are they still publishing this fish wrap? I know they were nothing more than an Associated Press reprinter a while back.
The only “reality crisis” is that of the attempt by Marxists to redefine reality.
Like Russian Collusion...
Yeah, let me guess who runs the thing...
The Russians had that. They called it Pravda.
There is no Izvestiya in Pravda, and there is no Pravda in Izvestiya.
Joe Biden would first have to tell the truth about himself before he could appoint the truth czar.
How much more Orwellian can we become?
Some of them are lying. Some actually believe this nonsense. This has happened before in history.
The people denying reality would be the consumers of the Ministry of Propaganda’s propaganda.
The left has lost its mind. Truth doesn’t come from some commission’s proclamations. It comes from reason and evidence, not by credentials. For example who would have thought the Theory of General Relativity would come from a patent clerk? He was proven correct.
Reason? Evidence? They can’t control that, so they want no part of it. Truth Czar!
When are people going to rise up and put this down?
YouTube is preventing citizens from watching testimony on an issue of national importance. It is an example of the slippery slope of censorship and how such speech regulation becomes an insatiable appetite for many. https://t.co/MThV2CK9U4— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 4, 2021
Already happening. No need for gun play just yet.
The NY Slimes, which covered up both The Holocaust and Stalin’s genocide against the Ukraine wants a “reality czar”
Authoritarian regimes have state-sponsored media that’s less compliant and loving to the regime than the current mass-media in the US.
Mark
Why don’t they just make snopes.com the Ministry of Truth? Save a few taxpayer dollars; it’s already left-leaning.
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