"J’étais encore naïf, je me disais que ça ne pouvait pas venir d’un grand hebdomadaire". Le couple Garrido Corbière au procès de la direction du Point et du journaliste Aziz Zemouri après leur fake news sur leur femme de ménage. Ni le directeur du magazine, Etienne Gernelle, ni le journaliste étaient présents. Quelle lâcheté. Tout ça pour un règlement de comptes politique... https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/150325/au-proces-du-point-raquel-garrido-et-alexis-corbiere-accusent-une-derive-systemique

We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issue so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

So I saw this image and my high school French knowledge kicked in...

based on French grammar rules, shouldn't "Fake News" be more like "les News Fakes"?

Ein neuer Forschungsbeitrag (2025) zeigt: Digitale Desinformation & Clickbait prägen das Medienumfeld. Ähnlich wie TV-Prediger Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker nutzen sie Emotionen & Manipulation für Profit. Falschinfos verbreiten sich schneller als Wahrheit – mit fatalen Folgen. #FakeNews

Ein neuer Forschungsbeitrag (2025) zeigt: Digitale Desinformation & Clickbait prägen das Medienumfeld. Ähnlich wie TV-Prediger Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker nutzen sie Emotionen & Manipulation für Profit. Falschinfos verbreiten sich schneller als Wahrheit – mit fatalen Folgen. #FakeNews

This invisible, intertwining structure of groupings and associations is the mechanism by which democracy has organized its group mind and simplified its mass thinking. To deplore the existence of such a mechanism is to ask for a society such as never was and never will be. To admit that it exists, but expect that it shall not be used, is unreasonable. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

Suivez @RichardMonvoisin sur RFI, qui parle de #fakenews et de doute méthodique (et un peu de #Mastodon). "Fakenews", terme devenu fourre-tout, qui mélange beaucoup de choses, et d'ailleurs récupéré par #DonaldTrump, pourtant lui-même grand pourvoyeur et amplificateur de fausses nouvelles.
"Les réseaux sociaux, pour la plupart, sont propriétaires, donc à but lucratif, donc ils encouragent tout ce qui est piège-à-clic. Leurs fonds de commerce, ce sont nos biais cognitifs."
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/les-dessous-de-l-infox/20250314-comment-outiller-les-esprits-face-%C3%A0-la-d%C3%A9sinformation

In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion without anything. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

For the sake of simplicity and practicality, that party machines should narrow down the field of choice to two candidates, or at most three or four. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

Some of the phenomena of this process are criticized???the manipulation of news, the inflation of personality, and the general ballyhoo by which politicians and commercial products and social ideas are brought to the consciousness of the masses. The instruments by which public opinion is organized and focused may be misused. But such organization and focusing are necessary to orderly life. #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

It is not usually realized how necessary these invisible governors are to the orderly functioning of our group life. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

"eventually, #Americans will be able to see with their own eyes and in their own lives what #Trump has done to the #US and the wider world. Their daily experience will expose him for what he is: a confidence trickster who has made them poorer and less safe. The only question is when."

Why is #DonaldTrump crashing the #USeconomy? Because he’s high on his own supply of #fakenews | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/donald-trump-crashing-us-economy-fake-news