The F Word

Excellent post. Knowledge is Power, so of course that makes knowledge dangerous as well. I like the sharing a fact with others in a bucket brigade (#InfoBucketBrigade or #FWord), but we need to recognize that these hash tags will become targets for disinformation too, for that is the way the game is played. Who will watch the Watchers? Who will correct non-facts in a crusade to share facts. In a way it is quite daunting.



I have had the opportunity to work with many Russians who immigrated to the US after the fall of the Soviet Union and we discussed life in the USSR. One thing that was pointed out to me over and over again was how the Soviet Government undermined itself with the propaganda it disseminated to the population via TASS and PRAVDA. The information the Russian people received was verifiable as different from the world they actually lived in. This created a cynicism overtime to a point that information the Russian people received from the Government was met with constant skepticism.



More important than correcting the Fact deficit, is for the American people to develop the same level of skepticism towards the information Corporations provide them, that the Russians developed for information provided by the state. You may not be able to replace disinformation with fact, as easily as discrediting the sources for the disinformation itself.
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