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Ford Fischer: Why You Should Surveil the State

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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Exploring Police Surveillance and Misinformation on Social Media

Police surveillance is crucial as misinformation on social media can lead to the distortion of events, like videos falsely captioned as related to a border event in the US. Inflammatory content on platforms like Twitter can spread rapidly, garnering thousands of retweets, even when the content is completely unrelated. For instance, misleading captions led to videos depicting militias in Portland, Oregon, being misrepresented as patriots heading to the border, along with a clip of the 2022 trucker convoy being falsely labeled as the current convoy to the border.

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