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Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
The level of historical ignorance, sheer stupidity and corporate-serving malevolence required to believe the US Security State is trying to *combat* disinformation -- rather than aggressively spread it -- is so extreme that no words in the English language suffice to describe it:
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Brent Baker 🇺🇦
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“This has been mostly a Fox World story,” @BrianStelter ridicules “a lot of right wing uproar” over DHS “Disinformation Governance Board.” It “sounds like common sense, but when I Google this all I see is like ‘Joe Biden’s Ministry of Truth’...”
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Glenn Greenwald
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But that someone who is given the job title of "journalist" by the HR Department of Warner Bros. Discovery Corp. can read a story about Homeland Security creating a "Disinformation Board" and celebrate it as "common sense" shows not only why CNN is dying but why it deserves to.
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Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
But when your job title is "journalist" and you spend your time at Versailles-type parties hosted by billionaire magazine owners - dining, drinking and giggling with CIA Director and other US Security State operatives - of course these are the sorts of things you end up saying.
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Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
These are decadent French aristocrats gathered at a gala hosted by Marie Antoinette, proudly giggling and cackling at how hated they are by the hordes of peasants gathered outside the gates, but thinking they're too entitled and divine for it ever to matter. I guess we'll see:
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Michael Austin
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To be clear, I don’t want either party to have a “disinfo” board. That being said, try to imagine the outcry from these ppl if Republicans were to take over and use it for their own purposes. It would be utter chaos!
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Crazy how you can ignore the amount of damage misinformation, often deliberately seeded by geopolitical enemies, did to America in the last 10 years. Thousands dead from covid misinfo. Yet you act like it isn’t a problem?
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