Posted on 01/03/2025 3:06:59 AM PST by texas booster
Disinformation. BLM. Masks.
Count three moral panics that never made any sense, that destroyed people’s lives, yet questioning them had severe consequences. And certainly the one place that they could never be questioned was in the media. Yet, when the time came, the media simply shrugged, brushed them aside and acted like they had been no big deal in the first place.
Disinformation was originally a Russiagate component that was used to conduct mass censorship of political dissent and a top-down regulation of speech on the theory that there was a dangerous kind of speech ‘disinformation’ that made democracy unworkable without censorship.
But now the time has passed and a Politico article casually brushes the whole thing aside without actually acknowledging the harm that it did and while still pretending that the censors were acting in good faith.
What followed was almost a decade of alarm over disinformation, with legislators agonizing over which ideas social media platforms should allow to propagate, and hand-wringing at how this was all irrevocably corroding the foundations of society.
A vibrant cottage industry — dubbed “Big Disinfo” — sprang up to fight back against bad information. NGOs poured money into groups pledging to defend democracy against merchants of mistruth, while fact-checking operations promised to patrol the boundaries of reality…
There is currently a “crisis in the field of misinformation studies,” announced an October article in Harvard University’s Misinformation Review.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Foundational issues such as how to define misinformation are still vexing the field, the authors note.
The work is frustrated by “incredibly polarizing” conversations on the role misinformation plays in society. For example, whether “Facebook significantly shaped the results of 2016 elections” — which, eight years on, is still inconclusive, although studies have cast doubt on Russian bot farms having had much to do with it.
Because it was all a bunch of lies. Misinformation can simply be defined as something the other side believes that you think isn’t true. (That turns out to be most things.) The very notion of censorship was a fundamental attack on the First Amendment and yet, until very recently, we had courts, law professors and top experts wave away the idea that the government telling social media platforms what speech needed to be removed was censorship or at all problematic.
What just changed?
The people engaged in it, unless they were complete blinkered idiots, no more believed in it than the political consultants believed that Bloomberg would become president. They were cashing checks and pursuing political goals. If there’s anyone who ought to be charged with threatening democracy, it’s them.
Very, very good Greenfield article about the change in tone about misinformation. Worth your time!
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Disinformation was first a Russian word.
Disinformation - Wikipedia
The United States Intelligence Community appropriated use of the term disinformation in the 1950s from the Russian dezinformatsiya, and began to use similar strategies [61] [62] during the Cold War and in conflict with other …
Some consider it a loan translation of the Russian дезинформация, transliterated as dezinformatsiya,[15][1][2] apparently derived from the title of a KGB black propaganda department.[16][1][17][15] Soviet planners in the 1950s defined disinformation as “dissemination (in the press, on the radio, etc.) of false reports intended to mislead public opinion.”[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation
Disinformation - dezinformatsiya is actually a Russian word. Probably originated with the USSR KGB. KGB was a master at spreading disinformation- dezinformatsiya aka lies and deception. Putin’s FSB does the same.
Our CIA adopted this word. Then the leftists during Trump-45. Use of this word really blossomed dung the C19 panic scamdemic.
As anti-vaxxx people were defamed. People who advocated Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin were accused of spreading disinformation.
Blame the evil stupid USA media and Democrat hacks in DC and in every US state.
Disinformation - Wikipedia
The United States Intelligence Community appropriated use of the term disinformation in the 1950s from the Russian dezinformatsiya, and began to use similar strategies [61] [62] during the Cold War and in conflict with other …
The Obama/Soros paid propaganda machine was successful. About 50% of the country is hypnotized. Left wing narratives ruled the day until undermined by reality. As has been said a million times before, Obama’s disinformation campaign is composed of projection or gas lighting.
The disinformation existed, but it was coming from those claiming the disinformation, but they were the ones who were actually providing the disinformation.
Many of us have been aware of fake news all along.
My parents hardly trusted anything the networks called “news”.
Every threat or scandal they said was real was fake.
Every threat or scandal they said was fake was real.
The Red Scare was real.
Women and black suppression was fake.
The Gold Standard was real.
The Cederal Reserve System was fake.
The Military Industrial Complex was real.
The Watergate Scandal was fake.
Trickle Down Supply Side Economics was real.
Climate Change was fake.
The Nuclear Family was real.
Gender Fluidity is fake.
Big Food and Big Pharma mass poisoning is real.
Covid was fake.
Operation Crossfire Hurricane was real.
The J6 MAGA Insurrection - fake.
As the tech companies colluded with the DNC and federal agencies to suppress political speech, calls to investigate and reform Section 230 were called “anti free speech”.
The FACT is that when a large corporation does the bidding of a political party, it is government suppression of political speech and there should be public hangings for this....not just the government officials involved, but the heads of the corporations as well.
“Tawana Brawley, please pick up the white courtesy phone.”
The left will want to dismantle Section 230 now that Musk owns X.
“Some consider it a loan translation of the Russian дезинформация, transliterated as dezinformatsiya,[15][1][2] apparently derived from the title of a KGB black propaganda department.”
Probably used to convey LIES about the West, like the West would chop off boobs and dicks from little kids, flood their countries with Third World types, let 2 men get ‘married’ and then adopt a plaything (aka, boy), throw a 1000 political prisoners in jail, shoot political candidates they don’t approve of, investigate people who speak up at school board meetings, etc.
To put another way, the Russians may have invented the term, but I doubt they need to use it much to describe the West.
The roots of “disinformation” are the formation of the Department of Homeland Security and the development of the security state back in the early Bush years. Republicans naively thought that all of that coordinated domestic and foreign intelligence apparatus that they were creating would be used to fight foreign enemies. Instead, it went looking for an easy domestic mission to justify its existence and expansion. Hence, disinformation. The whole thing needs to be shut down.
The journalists that are in a panic about "misinformation" are also dismissive of voter fraud in it's various forms. Interesting, that.
Dim, when you say "blossomed DUNG", what exactly are you trying to say?
“To put another way, the Russians may have invented the term, but I doubt they need to use it much to describe the West.”
You are probably correct that the word “disinformation” is used lots more here. Our left and our mass media love to brainwash by continual repetition of keywords and phrases. The word “insurrection” for J6 is an example.
However, ye old KGB had a black ops section devoted to dezinformatsiya - disinformation. Do we have similar?
“dezinformatsiya,[15][1][2] apparently derived from the title of a KGB black propaganda department.”
“However, ye old KGB had a black ops section devoted to dezinformatsiya - disinformation. Do we have similar?”
We have what Matthew Pines called an “Archipelago” of agencies that produce disinformation.
In the modern age of instant communications it spreads around the world regardless of who is the target.
The only way to eliminate disinformation that ultimately targets the American people is to eliminate all the .gov agencies and their contractors that generate it.
maskirovka the art of deception. The Soviets turned it into an art form.
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