Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especially from Russia.
It’s not even division, I once heard it described as “planned destruction of concensus reality”. It’s what the idiots panicking over “Russian bots” and “Putin’s playbook” fundamentally fail to grasp: getting people who hate Russia to go on a never ending hunt for Russian bots is much easier than getting them to like Russia, but equally makes them counterproductive to local politics.
Like that story from a few weeks ago, an AIPAC media campaign against an anti-Israel politician is less effective than AIPAC donating to him and then leaking it. Or, ideally, both.
It’s not even division, I once heard it described as “planned destruction of concensus reality”. It’s what the idiots panicking over “Russian bots” and “Putin’s playbook” fundamentally fail to grasp: getting people who hate Russia to go on a never ending hunt for Russian bots is much easier than getting them to like Russia, but equally makes them counterproductive to local politics.
Like that story from a few weeks ago, an AIPAC media campaign against an anti-Israel politician is less effective than AIPAC donating to him and then leaking it. Or, ideally, both.