AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Are you chatting with a pro-Israeli AI-powered superbot?
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6 months ago“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
William Casey, former director of the CIA, upon being asked what the goal of the agency was (in 1981).
Sure. Sometimes that purpose is merely to cast aspersions or muddy the water. Look at the flat earther community, or Jackson Pollocks career.
Without context these just seem like the government having a laugh, but if you understand the metrics they are trying to shift, their actions take on a different meaning.
The idea isn’t to make the voting population unified behind the president, it’s to divide them against each other.