The other side of the problem is that there are some very heavily moneyed interests funding most of the outfits in the mis/dis/mal-information space. It has quickly become something of a cottage industry since 2017. Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger have done some good reporting on tracing the money and the influence networks behind …
The other side of the problem is that there are some very heavily moneyed interests funding most of the outfits in the mis/dis/mal-information space. It has quickly become something of a cottage industry since 2017. Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger have done some good reporting on tracing the money and the influence networks behind what they termed the "Censorship Industrial Complex." Following the money and then looking at their hiring pipelines gets really interesting, especially when you start looking not just in the US but at all of these groups across the western world. Lots of shell companies and "former intelligence" on staff.
What I realized after digging deep into the subject is that the modern left's obsession with misinformation, disinformation, and "malinformation" is that those emotionally attractive sentiments were laundered into the public discourse by influential people and institutions as a necessary step in the expansion of this project.
The other side of the problem is that there are some very heavily moneyed interests funding most of the outfits in the mis/dis/mal-information space. It has quickly become something of a cottage industry since 2017. Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger have done some good reporting on tracing the money and the influence networks behind what they termed the "Censorship Industrial Complex." Following the money and then looking at their hiring pipelines gets really interesting, especially when you start looking not just in the US but at all of these groups across the western world. Lots of shell companies and "former intelligence" on staff.
What I realized after digging deep into the subject is that the modern left's obsession with misinformation, disinformation, and "malinformation" is that those emotionally attractive sentiments were laundered into the public discourse by influential people and institutions as a necessary step in the expansion of this project.