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Finally, they admit that Free Speech is more scary than climate changeThe WEF, being the billionaire's ski club — are of course, talking about the worlds greatest threat to them, not to you.
In the
WEF Global Risks Report they asked 1,490 experts and leaders and their the list of
biggest risks in the next two years was misinformation and disinformation. Forget bioweapons, nuclear bombs, wars, corruption, asteroids, inflation and global boiling — the thing that keeps the favored "experts" awake at night is whether people will point out their flaws and expose the rorts* that put them at the top of the pile.
The "Misinformation and Disinformation" line is dressed up as a concern that AI generated or false information is the problem, but note the giveaway — those in authority are most worried about
public opinion shifting to distrust those in authority — as if "authority" could never be wrong.
Blind trust is how you build nations right?
Persistent false information (deliberate or otherwise) widely spread through media networks, shifting public opinion in a significant way towards distrust in facts and authority. Includes, but is not limited to: false, imposter, manipulated and fabricated content.
Fake news has been around since the StoneAge, and the only way to deal with it is to correct it with better information, not with gatekeepers of truth or government rules. Free speech works because anyone caught spreading lies got a bad reputation, and everyone else was free to repeat that.
How is it that those who control the research grants, the media licenses, and one third of the whole economy could be unable to defend themselves? Do they lack a thousand paid agents with supercomputers, guns and security passes to find out the truth? Nay, these are the poor poppets who only have whole institutions, ministries, and public broadcasters with budgets of billions to tell their side of the story.
The problem is they have everything on their side except the truth.
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