alt Hacker NewsA lot of this stuff doesn't work by changing people's mind on topic X, but rather by saturating the informational environment so that people declare epistemological bankruptcy. For example, one thing that you can quite often hear from a Russian that has been confronted with something unpleasant is "well, who knows what's true". This is usually not a figure of speech, not some kind of washing down of facts, but rather an accurate representation of their mind.
Between being fooled and being uninformed the latter is much more pleasant.
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I've always heard this as "Firehose of misinformation" but Wikipedia tells me it's "falsehood".
Nonetheless... look who innovated on it:
> but rather by saturating the informational environment so that people declare epistemological bankruptcy.
"never use big words when a smaller one will suffice"
they want to, as Bannon said, "flood the zone". or as RAND Corp calls it, "the Russian Firehose of Falsehood"
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Yes, exactly by grinding people down. Making it exhausting to discern the truth, until it's not worth the energy exertion to do so.
Also perhaps it is not meant to convince Scottish people of anything, but maybe to make English people hostile to Scotland and its people etc