The Senate has confirmed Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The vote to confirm Warsh on Wednesday brings new leadership to the world’s most powerful central bank at a fraught moment for the global economy.
We have also, over the last 10 years been subject to the biggest Psy op in the history of the world through social media.
Domestic political operatives, China and Russia were literally creating real looking fake news websites and then using fake accounts on Facebook etc to spread misinformation and link to their fake site as proof.
That’s just one example but it was incredibly rampant and most of it was just completely ignored by the media.
Not to mention the rampant bots online targeting progressives with “both sides” shit which was made pretty easy as the acting admin was supplying weapons to a genocide being done by a man wanted by the ICC
People stopped watching news and now no one knows what’s actually true.
Plus you had right wing news straight up openly lying about crime rates, the economy, and pretty much everything else
I mean, it still is fucking blatantly obvious how insanely awful Trump was so everyone who didn’t vote or supported him are still piece of shit idiots but he couldn’t have done it without the barrage of misinformation online
We have also, over the last 10 years been subject to the biggest Psy op in the history of the world through social media.
Domestic political operatives, China and Russia were literally creating real looking fake news websites and then using fake accounts on Facebook etc to spread misinformation and link to their fake site as proof.
That’s just one example but it was incredibly rampant and most of it was just completely ignored by the media.
Not to mention the rampant bots online targeting progressives with “both sides” shit which was made pretty easy as the acting admin was supplying weapons to a genocide being done by a man wanted by the ICC
People stopped watching news and now no one knows what’s actually true.
Plus you had right wing news straight up openly lying about crime rates, the economy, and pretty much everything else
I mean, it still is fucking blatantly obvious how insanely awful Trump was so everyone who didn’t vote or supported him are still piece of shit idiots but he couldn’t have done it without the barrage of misinformation online