Miguel Afonso Caetano on Nostr: "The whole debate relies, implicitly, on the assumption that were it not for ...

"The whole debate relies, implicitly, on the assumption that were it not for disinformation the majority of people would pivot toward the Democratic Party. But inflation and unemployment are not phenomena that people experience through their screens. In fact, much of the messaging from the liberal mainstream in the lead-up to the election, which dismissed worries about economic insecurity as resulting from a “vibecession,” could not unfairly be described as fake news.

Of course, access to clear information about politics is essential to the functioning of any democracy. But focusing on disinformation has largely become a condescending distraction for a liberal politics unwilling to pursue concrete political and economic policies in the interest of most people."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/trump-election-disinformation-censorship-liberals/

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