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The Truth is Out There

IRL: Online Life is Real Life

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Social Media and Disinformation

As disinformation networks become more powerful, they influence the messages we hear and how we interact with one another. Disrupting democratic discourse draws them out of the shadows and taking down their networks threatens their business model. It shines a light on those who benefit politically from misinformation. In south africa, we've seen an the development of these kinds of networks, using xenophobia as as kind of a areling call. They're using a clay book that has been proven to work elsewhere. And this is how social media is weaponized. Like you have a military industrial complex, there is a kind of disinformation industrial complex. The only way we gain to defen it is by demanitise

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