Eliot Higgins: Demanufacturing Consent
Actors of various types use the lenses provided by information media, with an impact amplified by social media and twisted by algorithmic distortion, to pursue wealth and power through deceit.
From a presentation at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, April 25, 2025:
We rely on mediators to provide lenses that focus reality for our understanding of the world.
"The real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance." — Walter Lippman
Those mediators, with an impact amplified by social media and twisted by algorithmic distortion, are the tools of various actors pursuing political power through this bald deceit.
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