If you're looking for light Sunday reading, this isn't it, but this is VERY IMPORTANT: You have been manipulated. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage …
Essential & important. Has me thinking about helping people detect when they're being manipulated, and how to make them care.
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I'm curious about how to detect it too (and give people the antidote). Here's a nice companion article:https://hapgood.us/2017/02/17/misinformation-is-a-norovirus-and-the-web-is-a-cruise-ship/ …
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"Once people believe a thing, it can be pretty hard to dislodge that belief, & creating new beliefs doesn’t take that much."
@joshuamauldin
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Have you read Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent'? This article seems to describe an evolution of his analysis.
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No, I have not read that (though have lots of other things from him.) I'll look it up. Thanks.
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