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#conspiratorialism

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Petra van Cronenburg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> Oh, that was a wonderfully cheeky "over-clickbait". I clicked. I wanted to know: What, this person? Should I have misjudged him?</p><p>And then I had a huge pleasure as the article chased me through the polarities to present its finely differentiated findings. It got exciting.<br>It's been a long time since I've enjoyed reading something so serious so much! 👏 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mustread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mustread</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/conspiratorialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiratorialism</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>As <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@zephoria" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zephoria</span></a></span> started saying all the way back in 2018, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/WeaponizedMediaLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeaponizedMediaLiteracy</span></a> leads to <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/conspiratorialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiratorialism</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2018/03/09/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">zephoria.org/thoughts/archives</span><span class="invisible">/2018/03/09/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you.html</span></a></p><p>Remember, the biggest peddlers of "fake news" are also the most prolific users of the term. For a lot of these information warriors, the point isn't to get you to believe *them* - they'll settle for you believing *nothing*. <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/FloodTheZoneWithBullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloodTheZoneWithBullshit</span></a> is <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/SteveBannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteveBannon</span></a>'s go-to tactic, and it's one that his acolytes have picked up and multiplied.</p><p>12/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Logging companies know a lot about forests. When we ask, "What's the best way to remediate forests," companies may well have useful things to say. But those useful things will be mixed with harmful lies. The carefully cultivated incompetence of our regulators means that they can't tell the difference.</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Conspiratorialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conspiratorialism</span></a> is characterized as a problem of *what* people believe, but the true roots of conspiracy belief isn't what we believe, it's *how* we decide what to believe.</p><p>32/</p>
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