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Misinformation Is Warfare (time.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Misinformation Is Warfare::Joan Donovan explores how misinformation had become a tactic in the Israel-Hamas war.

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[โ€“] psycho_driver 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

However, while television is still bound to regulations that require a modicum of truthful content

Uhh, Faux News says hello.

[โ€“] jimbolauski 2 points 1 year ago

It's not just fox news, cBS presented easily identifiable fabricated documents that showed criticisms of GWB when he served in the guard. You can go to any news source and find instances of them fabricating stories. The Pulitzer Prize is names after the king of yellow journalism, who pushed the US into war with his false claims.