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"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... mediapart.fr/journal/politique

Mediapart · Au procès du « Point », Raquel Garrido et Alexis Corbière accusent une dérive « systémique »By Mathieu Dejean

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."
rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/les-dessous

RFI · Les dessous de l'infox - Comment outiller les esprits face à la désinformation ?By Grégory Genevrier

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

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@eddiebbot 2/2 dominated by the relatively small number of persons???a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million???who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. --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
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The Guardian · Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake newsBy Jonathan Freedland