Information Warfare

While this podcast is long and in two parts, it explains in great detail how voters are continually manipulated into cult like behavior just on the basis of targeted misinformation and how that is coupled with corruption on steroids. Technology has a lot to answer for, as it’s a contagion spreading worldwide. Not only that real journalism is also under attack both financially (no one buying newspapers) and having to compete with nonfactual commentary across all platforms. As a result, the powerhouse news organizations lose their relevance and influence in getting real information out. Budgets become less and less for proper investigative reporting and society suffers the consequences. Where a fitting comment from journalist Anthony Davis ends up with “turkeys voting for thanksgiving”. Part 2 is featured first as I thought it covers more ground on important issues. Part one here:

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