You act based on information. If someone controls your information, then they control your choices. This is most obvious in cults.
Leaving the topic of these specific elections, and discussing how these operations work-
Censorship isn’t the offensive tool.
You flood an information ecosystem with specific data, and you crowd other information out.
The primary sin in similar discussions is usually the assumption that the best ideas win in the market place of ideas.
This is definitely not the case, because that competition of ideas assumes a fair fight.
Current disinformation techniques target disinformation researchers, flood networks, increase mistrust and spread doubt on fact checkers.
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Holmes, who is wrote the Abram’s dissent, which led to the analogy of the market place- didn’t assume that the best ideas would win.
He assumed majoritarian beliefs would often supplant other ideas.
His point was that it’s only through the process that humanity arrives at better ideas.
Today, there have been domestic and International workarounds found to capture and disrupt the fair trade in ideas.
You act based on information. If someone controls your information, then they control your choices. This is most obvious in cults.