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   Michael Puskar (puskar@macaw.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 21:48:19 JST Michael Puskar

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   • John Siracusa

   @siracusa Garry Kasparov said it best:

   The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

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     John Siracusa (siracusa@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 21:48:20 JST John Siracusa

     “So much of the conversation around misinformation suggests that its primary job is to persuade. But as Michael Caulfield, an information researcher at the University of Washington, has argued, ‘The primary use of misinformation is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.’”

     https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/

     Warner Crocker repeated this.