The Department of Homeland Security should not be allowed to be involved with any sort of fact monitoring or information shaping in the US. I'd think this would be obvious.
All this does is more thoroughly pollute the well. People should ditch trust in information online and concern themselves more with their primary observations. Obviously that doesn't tell me what's happening in Ukraine, for example. But the mistake is to assume that you could reliably have a good idea of what's happening without primary observation.
Same goes for print media, it just has a much lower throughput. This is the side effect of a lot of trends (internet, globalization, urbanization) that has destroyed local communities. It wasn't that long ago that events on the other side of the world truly had 0 impact on your life.
I'd go one step further and say that even primary observation doesn't guarantee you'll have a good idea of what's happening. Just ask a group of your friends from Ukraine/Iran/Pakistan/Haiti (or any other country that's in the news).
It's unlikely they'll have the same position on the issues that they all have first hand information about. The issues that are portrayed as black and white in our media, where the good and bad side is "so obvious", are suddenly not that obvious if you ask someone who actually knows more.
I know it's not a popular approach, but I just accept that everything I know could be wrong, and I don't know who the bad and good guys are (tbh, most often it's just various groups of bad guys the more research you do).
Every advisory of the US recognizes information war as a key strategy of their overall war, why on earth should the US gov ignore this and refuse to fight back?
The correct analogy would be bombing their military bases launching attacks on you, vs doing nothing because you "wouldn't want to escalate" or violate peacetime statues for military use.
> Every advisory of the US recognizes information war as a key strategy of their overall war, why on earth should the US gov ignore this and refuse to fight back?
I think you responded to someone else's comment from elsewhere. I didn't write about any of that.
