Ministry of Truth?

[Dill]

(05-09-2022, 10:45 AM)hollodero Wrote: Do millions of U.S. voters groomed to act on Fox/Trump prompts (NOT the “fake news”)—prompts easily mimicked on social media by our adversaries—pose a threat to national security and democracy worth addressing?

Yes. All due respect to your examples, but they aren't really necessary to reach that conclusion, imho.

Clearly, a significant portion of the U.S. electorate would answer "no" to my question.

In answering "no," they keep alive the real possibility of another, more vindictive Trump presidency, or falling short of that, the GOP rendering the country ungovernable as a superminority.

But you answered "yes," so iyho what is or would be necessary to "reach that conclusion," to address the disinformation? 

You said you were all for challenging misinformation, but rule out a "government run board" focused on external security threats.

Whatever we have now isn't working, so what might? 

I suspect a difference between us may be that I see NOT addressing the disinformation as a far greater threat to continued free
speech than a DHS Dept. of Disinformation.