The Materializing of Murky Myths

Misinformation and disinformation are a new shape of truth or alternatively a new form of a lie and either can contain doctored narratives. The words are a new norm in the news media and a sweet dressing for their word salad.

In many cases, the use of misinformation and disinformation is not based on actual fact, but rather anything in opposition to the user’s opinion. People that use the terms often cite their care, concern, and compassion for people, assuming their information and facts are much more medicinal and cathartic for the general population. They will claim opposing information is socially dangerous and destabilizes public trust. However, in the real world, it is up to the listener and reader to determine and adjudge what is right or in some cases “more accurate”.

Obviously, “confirmation bias”, plays a huge role in the determination or consideration of what is misinformation and disinformation. Confirmation bias is a cognitive prejudicial effort that triggers people to search for, favor, select and recover information that is acceptable to their preexisting beliefs or convictions. Anything outside the realm of their confirmation bias must be construed as fictitious or fallacious.

The one instance where confirmation bias is never a requirement is when opposing information is censored. There’s even a new term for this – “content moderation”. The term seems so much more passive and calm, yet the action remains just as ugly.

For decades, many of us have known that censorship occurs in the legacy media as well as the purveyors of internet social media. Reviewing the Pew Research bar chart below, one can clearly see just how popular the internet has become when it comes to the acquisition of news.

Furthermore, the next bar chart illustrates that within internet news, more people turn to social media rather than news websites, new apps, or search engines.

In the United States, nearly 87% of households have Internet access, while 77% of those surveyed have some frequency of higher broadband. On average 93% of adults in the USA use the Internet – the younger the more frequent, yet even those in the 65+ age bracket are at 77%. These Pew Research results show undoubtedly the power of the internet when it comes to the dissemination of news. So how important is the ability to get one’s message out on the Internet and have the ability to control opposing views? It’s very much like the old Mastercard slogan, “priceless”.

In the current case, with Twitter and the release of documents showing collusive action between:

• The Democratic National Committee;

• The Biden Election Team;

• Elected members of the federal house, senate, and state representatives; and,

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation

and Twitter, the charge of censorship is not abstractive or circumstantial, but rather unequivocal since the originating documents, emails, memoranda, and notes can be traced back directly to those named in the points above.

Yet, the legacy media is endeavoring to censor or sanitize their own acts of censorship. Alternatively, some are communicating the irrelevance and insignificance of the activity. This is despite Elon Musk conveying that the documents clearly and decisively show, that collusion by Twitter, “has interfered in elections.” In this matter, the one party that continuously charges the other of destroying democracy is the indisputable projectionist and the one employing the deeds of fascism.

Naturally, anthropogenic climate change is censored in the exact same fashion with these same political allies, adding in a few more from the well-funded, activist scientific community. Once this entire episode has fully materialized and become manifest, Google, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms will become the Lucy in the famous Ricky Ricardo line, “Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!”