Scream no more censorship rare5/29/2023 ![]() Either way, the diagnosis goes, we Americans are drowning in the semiotic swirl. ![]() An “ information disorder” is the more medical-sounding label that other authorities choose to give it. Social media, we now know, is a volcano of misinformation, a non-stop wallow in hatred and lies, generated for fun and profit, and these days liberal politicians are openly pleading with social media’s corporate masters to pleezclamp a ceiling on it, to stop people from sharing their false and dangerous stories.Ī “ reality crisis” is the startling name a New York Times story recently applied to this dismal situation. ![]() Today we know that social media is what gives you things like Donald Trump’s lying tweets, the QAnon conspiracy theory and the Capitol riot of 6 January. Six years later and liberals can’t wait for that extraordinary new world to end. ![]() The presentation I remember most vividly was that of a famous TV actor who rhapsodized about the wonders of Twitter, Facebook and the rest: “No matter which platform you prefer,” she told us, “social media has given us all an extraordinary new world, where anyone, no matter their gender, can share their story across communities, continents and computer screens. O ne day in March 2015, I sat in a theater in New York City and took careful notes as a series of personages led by Hillary Clinton and Melinda Gates described the dazzling sunburst of liberation that was coming our way thanks to entrepreneurs, foundations and Silicon Valley.
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