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The twitter misinformation is more insidious, meant to stoke tension rather than rally behind a "patriotic" goal.
Comment by fungibletokens at 07/01/2025 at 22:17 UTC
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Lies told by the ruling class and their mouthpieces to benefit the MIC at the expense of innocent lives abroad is just as, if not more, insidious, no?
I happened to pick examples of a similar theme, but some of these lies are turned inwards towards the citizenry - I'm (just about) old enough to remember when it was spoken of in the mainstream as a gauche conspiracy theory to suggest that western states spied on their own citizens. Now it's accepted, and normalised, fact. Or when it was advanced that workers being put out of work by economic 'modernisations' would be retrained in other fields.
Twitter is only very good at stoking tensions in our society because its a society which has already failed its members and is ripe for internecine conflict. For the all the talk of misinformation, he biggest lie told is that our political class, and our entire economic system, works for us in good faith.
If it sounds like I'm letting Musk off the hook, it's because I'm sick of seeing the label "misinformation" used, in effect, to defend the status quo positioned in opposition (as if) to the likes of Musk and Trump.