HeyJaredDisinformation Wire
Analysis and discussion of what the World Economic Forum calls the most pressing issue of our time: Disinformation. Publisher/Editor: Paul Brandus
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The White House meeting between Trump and AI execs missed one huge thing (opens the original)
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Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.This newsletter covers what the World Economic Forum calls one of the world’s biggest problems. Disinformation — deliberately manufactured and distributed lies with the goal of fooling you for the financial, political, or personal benefit of someone else — is much more than politics. Its tentacles reach into every nook and cranny of our society. You are bombarded with disinformation every day — it can impact your money, your job, your belief system — and you might n
This is now the #1 fraud (opens the original)
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Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.This newsletter covers what the World Economic Forum calls one of the world’s biggest problems. Disinformation — deliberately manufactured and distributed lies with the goal of fooling you for the financial, political, or personal benefit of someone else — is much more than politics. Its tentacles reach into every nook and cranny of our society. You are bombarded with disinformation every day — it can impact your money, your job, your belief system — and you might n
How people get sucked into conspiracy cults (opens the original)
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Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.This newsletter covers what the World Economic Forum calls one of the world’s biggest problems. Disinformation — deliberately manufactured and distributed lies with the goal of fooling you for the financial, political, or personal benefit of someone else — is much more than politics. Its tentacles reach into every nook and cranny of our society. You are bombarded with disinformation every day — it can impact your money, your job, your belief system — and you might n
Disinformation and 9/11 (opens the original)
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This much we can agree on: The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 was a terrible day in our history — the sixth-single worst day by my count — and cast a dark shadow over our country, a shadow from which we have yet to escape. Disinformation surrounding the attacks represents one of the earliest case studies in how the modern internet can accelerate, institutionalize, and sustain conspiratorial narratives. These claims generally fall into distinct categories:Controlled Demolition & Physical Imp
10 ways disinformation could hit you in the wallet (opens the original)
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Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.This newsletter covers what the World Economic Forum calls one of the world’s biggest problems. Disinformation — deliberately manufactured and distributed lies with the goal of fooling you for the financial, political, or personal benefit of someone else — is much more than politics. Its tentacles reach into every nook and cranny of our society. You are bombarded with disinformation every day — it can impact your money, your job, your belief system — and you might n
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