Caroline Orr Bueno on Nostr: But that little bit of nuance — which some of us might just call “truth” — is ...
But that little bit of nuance — which some of us might just call “truth” — is exactly what disinformation seeks to eliminate, mainly by preying on your social, cognitive, & emotional vulnerabilities. That nuance is like kryptonite to disinformation.
You see, disinformation thrives in a world of artificial simplicity, where context doesn’t exist, & where inconvenient facts can simply be written right out of history books along with things like war crimes and human rights abuses. Just ask Putin.
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