Pay no attention to the facts hidden by our lies!
Meme:
US:
Look, We are the Critical Thinkers now!
THEM:
Oh, no thought pirates! Reeeee!!!
I'm just rationalizing, definitely making the assumption that there is a cognitive incentive which would provoke this type of editorial.
It reads like a message of both reassurance and warning not to be fooled by convincing information.
Our current information crisis, Mr. Caulfield argues, is an attention crisis.
“The goal of disinformation is to capture attention, and critical thinking is deep attention,” he wrote in 2018. People learn to think critically by focusing on something and contemplating it deeply — to follow the information’s logic and the inconsistencies.
So, if it engages you and makes you think - deeply - danger danger danger!
My opinion:
It tries to alleviate the cognitive dissonance.
As they run into information that runs counter to their "reality" this article works to explain that it isn't their fault - they are just being fooled by cunning disinformation that appears convincing and very believable. So, they should realize that any doubts that may crop up are part of the devious plan to turn them away from what is both good and truthful.
Yes, information is a real problem for them.
Once they realize that they are the cancer, things will become far more clear albeit, suicidal, for many.
Pre insane America.
Downside: President Harris
A DDoS attack isn't a "security" issue necessarily - plenty of hardened sites can be susceptible to such types of attacks.
Let's see if there's been a data breach before we start assuming GAB has been "hacked"
A user account being compromised - that's hardly a problem with the platform.
Don't fucking jump to conclusions just yet.
GAB is down last 2 hours, yup.
No, no, no!
The GOP Leadership needs to apologize for this immediately!
It sends a very bad message and reflects poorly on the Republican Party!
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
You have only yourself to blame! :p
Yeah not really. Pick your poison more like.
mind the fluoride!
Great point - I agree - fighting fire with fire can just get everything burned if you don't do it right.
Try to be less white?
So, does that mean black face is OK now?
Impact versus cucked pack?
Those bells were broken long ago from over use., but yeah.
He does appear to have an ax or two to grind...
No doubt the rhetoric will be good - but it usually is, it's always the lying that ruins great rhetoric for me.
"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
Dresden James
TIL: Satan is a leftist.
Go figure.
He doesn't seem very broken up or humbled by this - must drive the bat shit crazies even more crazy.
Nonsense.
My sister lives on 12 acres in Hudspeth county - firewood, generators, solar panels and turbines - off the grid living already already. lol
As for other parts of Texas - I guess Texas has been "fortified" -that's a good thing right?
Maybe they will be less reluctant to swallow all that green energy bullshit. I love solar and wind - but you have to not be an idiot about such things.
On it's face, it's not bad advice but for the one command of "investigate the source" this will essentially send the person back to a "approved" information provider. Therein lies the trap.
I personally find that good information can be derived from imperfect or less than ideal sources - doesn't mean I won't cross check it - of course.
But plenty of times, like the 6th January Capitol incidents - garbage information was being contradicted by regular peeps in tweets and blogs and podcasts. Ultimately the regular peeps turned out to be far more reliable.
Process of professional fact checkers refined the practice into four simple principles. Otherwise known as SIFT.:
[see something that catches your attention? STOP!]
[is the information on an approved source list? if not, disengage immediately!]
[go to an approved source like MSNBC, NYT, CNN, etc.]
[read safe information, process and fortify opinion with information provided by approved sources]