In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion without anything. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
“Public health officials aren't skilled in information warfare,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center.
“They have to get people to understand the importance and value of getting vaccinated, but battling information warfare is not what we're taught in public health school.”
Let their shameless lies be the turning point for your commitment to a better world. 
https://veganhorizon.substack.com/p/uks-meat-propaganda-campaign-exposed
For the sake of simplicity and practicality, that party machines should narrow down the field of choice to two candidates, or at most three or four. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
Critical Thinking: The Other National Deficit
My wife bought me this t-shirt for my birthday several years ago, perhaps just before I retired from a career leading a team of researchers who conducted administrative policy studies at a large public university. Toward the end of my career, the university participated in a national test of college learning outcomes called the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA). Ideally, the CLA assesses the knowledge and skills of entering freshmen and then reassessed their knowledge and skills four years later to measure the educational value added in a true pre-post test. But, because we were in a hurry for results that could be published on a public dashboard to be used in a re-accreditation visit, we instead tested samples of entering freshmen and graduating seniors who had similar high school percentile ranks and SAT scores. Results showed the critical thinking skills of our graduating seniors, compared to entering freshmen, showed slightly less improvement than the national average for graduating seniors at other universities. University leaders were concerned about this finding and were discussing ways to improve at the time I retired. (1/8)
#CriticalThinking #Education #HigherEducation #Academia #Information
#Misinformation #Disinformation #News #Journalism #SocialMedia #Internet #AprilFoolsDay
Call for participation: *ClimateCheck* Shared Task ( https://sdproc.org/2025/climatecheck.html)
@NFDI4DS members Raia Abu Ahmad, Aida Usmanova and Georg Rehm are organizing a shared task “Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims on Climate Change (ClimateCheck)” on July 31 or August 1st, 2025 in Vienna, Austria, hosted as part of the SDP 2025 Workshop.
Deadline for system submissions: May 16, 2025
#NLP
#LLM
#climatecheck
#socialmediaposts
#climatechange
#misinformation
#SDP2025
#ACL2025
#Vienna
#NFDI4DS
MalwarebytesLabs, and good for them: Why we’re no longer doing April Fools’ Day . “… go ahead and order your Hot Dog Sparkling Water, eat your crust only pizza, or have a snooze in your banana sleeping bag. We love that. But as a cybersecurity brand we want you to feel like you can trust us—every single day of the year. If we say something is fake, then it’s fake. If we say it’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/malwarebyteslabs-why-were-no-longer-doing-april-fools-day/
Africa: Three Common Myths About U.S. Funding Cuts to South Africa: [GroundUp] US and South African officials have contributed to misinformation about the cancellation of funding http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJtKm8 #Africa #SouthAfrica #USFunding #Misinformation #GlobalRelations
#AI #misinformation #hallucinations
"Despite billions in research investment, AI factuality remains largely unsolved. According to the report, even the most advanced models from OpenAI and Anthropic 'correctly answered less than half of the questions' on new benchmarks like SimpleQA, a collection of straightforward questions."
Search Engine Journal: AI Researchers Warn: Hallucinations Persist In Leading AI Models. “Despite billions in research investment, AI factuality remains largely unsolved. According to the report, even the most advanced models from OpenAI and Anthropic ‘correctly answered less than half of the questions’ on new benchmarks like SimpleQA, a collection of straightforward questions.”
We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
WOW so glad people are speaking up
Fortune: #Moderna and #Novavax shares plunge after key #FDA official steps down, citing discord with #RFK Jr. who he says 'wishes subservient confirmation of his #misinformation and lies'
https://fortune.com/2025/03/31/moderna-novavax-stock-price-fda-resignation-rfk-jr-vaccine/
Probably want to visit the Smithsonian soon, trump whitewashes history —
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/smithsonian-institution-trump-executive-order
Make sure you don't get swept up in a raid and illegally deported, though... trump signs order on Washington DC as Republicans exert control over city.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/us-house-washington-dc-budget
#Smithsonian #disinformation #misinformation #USpol #USpolitics #DC #WashingtonDC
By 1928, the word's troubling connotations had not faded: on the contrary. Throughout the decade there had been a gradual, disorienting revelation of just how systematically, and how ingeniously, the Allied governments had fooled the peoples of two great democracies, Great Britain and, in particular, the USA. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
Unmasking #PierrePoilievre:
The Politician Behind the #Populist Rhetoric
https://www.mattvardy.com/blog/pierre-poilievre-leadership-record-canada-election-2025 #Environment #Housing #ABC #CdnPoli #SkinnyTrump #RussianAgent #HugoChávez #JairBolsonaro #DonaldTrump #RightWing #Diagolon #FreedomConvoy #Trans #LGBTQ #Misinformation #Disinformation #Freeloader
Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
Online #ContentModeration: What works, and what people want | MIT Sloan https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/online-content-moderation-what-works-and-what-people-want ““Contrary to recent claims from many political elites, the main problem with professional #factchecking is not bias or overreach,” he added. “The problem is that professional fact checkers can’t keep up with the vast scale of content posted every day” #misinformation
Liubov #Tsybulska - Negotiations and Ceasefires are Just Another Strategy of War for Moscow Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFO9uCuCGRI
#putin #fsb #activeMeasures #Disinformation #Misinformation #TrojanHorse #ReflexiveControl #propaganda
