#conspiratorialism — Public Fediverse posts

As @zephoria started saying all the way back in 2018, #WeaponizedMediaLiteracy leads to #conspiratorialism:

https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2018/03/09/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you.html

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*. #FloodTheZoneWithBullshit is #SteveBannon's go-to tactic, and it's one that his acolytes have picked up and multiplied.

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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.

#Conspiratorialism 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.

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