Yes, these are the same people who are pushing the Big Lie, profiting from disinformation on their sites, and prolonging a pandemic by spreading anti-vaccine BS, but hypocrisy doesn’t matter to them. You have to actually believe in something to care about hypocrisy.
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The far-right has embraced what I call “informational nihilism.” They believe in nothing & everything, often at the same time. Nothing has inherent value to them; certainly not truth. Information only exists in their world as a weapon, not a tool for knowledge or enlightenment.
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They don’t care that Rolling Stone & others apparently got the facts wrong (they don’t care about facts at all). They don’t believe in values like truth, transparency, accountability, & fairness — but they know you do, and they’ll exploit that belief to undermine those values.
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The only reason they’re talking about the Rolling Stone story is because they know *you* care about truth and accuracy, and so they’ll use that as a weapon to try to undermine and discredit the entirety of the press based on one story that relied on a dubious source.
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@jasonintrator calls this type of tactic “undermining propaganda,” which describes “a contribution to public discourse that is presented as an embodiment of certain ideals, yet is of a kind that tends to erode those very ideals."69 replies 39 retweets 203 likesShow this thread -
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hahaha "undermining propaganda" lol imagine lying and getting caught lying on such a regular basis that you have to invent a new term just to try and discredit the hundreds of people calling you out on your bullshit
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Replying to @yashkaf @eigenrobot and
The story in question was sloppy narrative-driven bullshit but is she wrong?
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believe what you want dude
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Replying to @eigenrobot @yashkaf and
That's the plan but I'm curious why you think what you do.
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