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‘An age of manufactured mistrust’: Here’s what rampant disinformation means for health, climate, and democracy (barfy concern troll alert)
Fortune ^ | February 13, 2024 | Bill Novelli

Posted on 02/17/2024 6:55:30 AM PST by DoodleBob

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Public trust is declining due to social media, and increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI).

The medical/industrial complex did this all to themselves.

Their falsehoods and half-truths were a kill shot, and it missed. It turns out, we are smarter than them.

Now, they’re concerned that we are “at risk,” because we didn’t stand in front of the bullet.

We have new skills; here is what their attack will look like henceforth.


1 posted on 02/17/2024 6:55:30 AM PST by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

I’m expecting the Branch Covidians to show up any minute now.


2 posted on 02/17/2024 6:58:23 AM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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If climate change were really the existential threat people claim it is, there would be a major push for nuclear and hydroelectric energy. Both sources do not emit carbon and can sustain major cities and power hybrid (or electric) cars. But, since I rarely hear frantic calls for these sources to be built up, I know we’re getting yanked on. Most likely, powerful forces simply want the middle east to produce oil...or something like that....and they know westerners are gullible. So, they string us along with stories of doom.


3 posted on 02/17/2024 7:04:03 AM PST by Mustangman
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They are correct. Popular hysteria and misinformation are great hazards of “democracy,” which educated people know from Greek history. That is why we DON’T HAVE a democracy.

The writers throw out a false premise and expect readers to go along, illustrating the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in creating a republic.


4 posted on 02/17/2024 7:05:04 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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“”””“Well over 300,000 Americans are in graveyards today because of the misinformation, the doubt, the suspicion, the distrust that caused them to say that vaccine is not safe for me.””””


And millions are in the graveyards today because they believed that vaccine is safe.


5 posted on 02/17/2024 7:05:11 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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So this is “what rampant disinformation” means for the elite master’s three great hoaxes.

Got it.


6 posted on 02/17/2024 7:06:25 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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“ Another health emergency is climate change.”
Thank you Fortune for that additional turd.


7 posted on 02/17/2024 7:06:26 AM PST by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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Novelli is writing "commentary" but Fortune is publishing it.

Other article titles from this ex-AARP guy: "Climate change is the next frontier of America’s culture wars." And other laughs-a-minute stuff -- "America can’t fulfill its purpose if we backslide on diversity, equity, and inclusion." "ESG is under attack–but Gen Zers and millennials are still looking for purpose and a paycheck."

He's about as conservative as Obama. / definite sarcasm

Novelli resume

8 posted on 02/17/2024 7:06:50 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Well bill noveli- you don’t get to decide what “misinformation” is, I do! So shut yer pinhole, and stick that in yer pipe and smoke it-

Seems like a lot of carefully handpicked people “told him” this that and the other thing too, but he never did any research o. His own to discover whether what they were feeding him was true or not, so people like h8m do not get to choose,what is or,is not “disinformation “ because they are far too uillible and uninformed!

And I have news for him- even if people do give out “misinformstion”, it is not a crime, not illegal, and is protected under free speech! But the truth of the matter is that everything g he wrote about like,climate change, covid vaccinations etc is based on lies he was told wh8ch he eagerly gobbled down like they were rare delicacies


9 posted on 02/17/2024 7:11:03 AM PST by Bob434
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I think the vaccine topic stopped providing them narcissistic supply, and they moved to the Russia-Ukraine threads.


10 posted on 02/17/2024 7:12:45 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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Over the last four years we have witnessed a level of earned distrust for korporations and the government bureaucrats in their pocket.

They exposed a whole other level of the critical flaw in the system where such purveyors of methods of control insist on being exempted from liability for their actions.

Laws for thee but not for me.

11 posted on 02/17/2024 7:13:58 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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In the United States of America, dis/misinformation is protected speech, as spelled out in the US Constitution, the supreme law of the land.

To Fortune magazine, Boston College, the Coalition for Trust in Health & Science, Geroge Washington University, George Masan University, Salesforce and Bill Gates, your right to dispute anything is also protected speech, however, it is not illegal, one way or the other.

12 posted on 02/17/2024 7:14:43 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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Some have maintained the same handles, but don’t sound like the same people typing.


13 posted on 02/17/2024 7:22:11 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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“A survey taken a few years ago indicated that Black respondents anticipate discriminatory treatment for COVID-19. And the roots of Black distrust in health care go back well before that. As Karen Bullock, a professor at Boston College, told me, “Why should Black people believe that a health care system is going to honor their wishes when, for your lifetime, the system hasn’t honored your wishes?”

I thought it was MAGA and Republicans that were dying in excess numbers to the enjoyment of the compassionate left, as well as Collins with his grim satisfaction. Abrupt u-turn here to blame it all on racism. Is this what a circular firing squad looks like?


14 posted on 02/17/2024 7:31:51 AM PST by sopo
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To: Alas Babylon!

Lying has been with us since Eden.

They act like this is something from 2020.


15 posted on 02/17/2024 7:34:59 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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BREAKING: Robert Kennedy Jr. has been granted a massive victory in his lawsuit against the Biden administration for colluding with social media companies to censor him
twitter.com ^
Posted on 2/17/2024, 5:17:09 AM by RoosterRedux

BREAKING: Robert Kennedy Jr. has been granted a massive victory in his lawsuit against the Biden administration for colluding with social media companies to censor him and others.

RFK Jr. was able to win a preliminary injunction against the White House and several federal agencies as a federal judge ruled that the government was “insinuating themselves into the social-media companies’ private affairs and blurring the line between public and private action.”

Judge Doughty said Kennedy provided substantial evidence that the Biden administration had coerced the companies into suppressing free speech related to Covid, elections, gas prices, climate change, gender, and abortion.

“It is certainly likely that Defendants could use their power over millions of people to suppress alternative views or moderate content that they do not agree with in the upcoming 2024 national election,” the judge added.

The injunction is stayed until 10 days after the Supreme Court rules on Missouri v Biden, though it prevents the White House and other agencies from coercing social media companies to “remove, delete, suppress, or reduce... content containing protected free speech.”

This is a major triumph for free speech in the country that RFK Jr. has won.

Again: RFK has been granted a massive victory in his lawsuit against the Biden administration for colluding with social media companies to censor him

https://twitter.com/ChristianM_74/status/1758343996294811815


16 posted on 02/17/2024 7:38:40 AM PST by Grampa Dave (“Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.)
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Complete and peer reviewed clinical trials with all risks fully examined and exposed. The acceptable standard for any vaccine.


17 posted on 02/17/2024 7:46:46 AM PST by glorgau
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Judge Doughty

….is this you, FRiend? /s (maybe)

18 posted on 02/17/2024 7:48:45 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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19 posted on 02/17/2024 7:49:48 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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“ I think the vaccine topic stopped providing them narcissistic supply, and they moved to the Russia-Ukraine threads.”
I’ve noticed that they have started getting away from the EV threads as well.


20 posted on 02/17/2024 7:52:07 AM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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