Professional propaganda and weaponized disinformation might be the biggest fundamental problem facing civil society and democracy. As the following story points out, politically slanted bulls#!t isn’t new, it’s been with us since well before Roger Stone was filling his diapers. But conventional media, alternative media and social media have given everyone a handheld megaphone and all of us are, unfortunately, within earshot all the time.
There are, however, things we can and need to do about it: