It was so hard for them to suffer through the administration of a pro-business, pro-military, socially moderate president who happened to be black that they had no choice but to elect an unhinged pedophile con artist. That was even stevens, as far as GOP voters were concerned.
In it's defence, (and maybe the book the article is based on says it better) - I think theyre saying AI is more the nail in the coffin.
Yes we've had a decade of the "attention economy giants" shoving tailored conspiracies and bubble realities down everyone's throat. But now AI makes it impossible to verify whats true, AND now those tech giants are officially/publically in bed with an increacingly authoritarian governement.
So it's a point of no return if we dont start treating informing our democracy as a public utility.
Shirotengu | 11 hours ago
What do you mean has entered? We've been in it for years at this point.
taco_tuesdays | 10 hours ago
Yeah it’s been a decade lol
jameson71 | 8 hours ago
honestly it started with the election of Obama and that birth certificate nonsense.
Now the tea party is in their second term.
Snoo93550 | 7 hours ago
Those racist lies were so popular the insecure whites made the leader president with no relevant experience.
Cereborn | 5 hours ago
It was so hard for them to suffer through the administration of a pro-business, pro-military, socially moderate president who happened to be black that they had no choice but to elect an unhinged pedophile con artist. That was even stevens, as far as GOP voters were concerned.
Snoo93550 | 5 hours ago
The ACA is repackaged Bob Dole ideas and they acted oppressed by it.
Cereborn | 3 hours ago
"I'm not talking about the ACA. I'm talking about Obamacare."
Anyone remember that post?
adstrong59 | 9 hours ago
The authors of the article have been sitting under a rock for too long. Really? The “New” Age of Propaganda?
revchj | 8 hours ago
Indeed. Manufacturing Consent came out in 1998.
PowerandSignal | 40 minutes ago
*1988
ahughman | 6 hours ago
In it's defence, (and maybe the book the article is based on says it better) - I think theyre saying AI is more the nail in the coffin.
Yes we've had a decade of the "attention economy giants" shoving tailored conspiracies and bubble realities down everyone's throat. But now AI makes it impossible to verify whats true, AND now those tech giants are officially/publically in bed with an increacingly authoritarian governement.
So it's a point of no return if we dont start treating informing our democracy as a public utility.
lc4444 | 6 hours ago
It’s been going on for decades, it’s just been recent that the dystopian flavor got turned up to eleven
atreeismissing | 3 hours ago
A bit ironic coming from The New Republic who traffics in outrage journalism built on propaganda.