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   Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:51:35 JST Jeff Jarvis

   Important paper by Dutch scholars Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri brings data to show that the alleged epidemic of disinformation is not widespread across the political spectrum or manufactured by technology but is a specific tactic of far-right extremists exploiting the vulnerability of both an open society and mass media's attention economy. I've been shouting this into the void and I'm delighted by the research. 1/

   https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/19401612241311886

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     Linda Woodrow (lindawoodrow@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 15:08:54 JST Linda Woodrow

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     • DC Deejay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

     @dcdeejay @jeffjarvis Ownership overlaps but does not guarantee control, not of such massive amorphous bodies as "the public". It's a bit like herding cats, or chickens. Building people's defenses against disinformation might be a tactic. Make us un-herd-able.

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     Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 15:08:55 JST Jeff Jarvis

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     The response should not be to make tech the folk devil of this moral panic or shut down the openness of an enlightened society but to recognize the insidious efforts of these malign actors & publicly expose & target them. That would require media to recognize their vulnerability and culpability.

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     DC Deejay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (dcdeejay@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 15:08:55 JST DC Deejay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

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     @jeffjarvis "That would require media to recognize their vulnerability and culpability."

     Is this plausible when the media is likely owned or funded by the malign actors and/or their allies?

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     Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 15:08:56 JST Jeff Jarvis

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     Quote: "These political movements are exploiting declining confidence in official information by creating alternative information sources with the aim of undermining institutional legitimacy & destabilize mainstream parties, governments, elections. As misinformation is shaped by the political logic of radical right populism, so the politics of the radical right is shaped by the incentives of an attention-driven media environment, which offers agenda-setting and control over public attention." 2/