As If On Cue
- Eliot Daley
- Oct 22
- 1 min read
Just yesterday, I shared my thoughts about the danger to "truth" and "reality" caused by the ubiquitous and growing use of plausible misinformation and AI-generated images and videos almost impossible to detect as bogus. And now today the New York Times does a deep-dive into the myriad ways Trump is using these tools nonstop to create a world in which whatever he says carries inordinate apparent authority. I urge you to read this amazing account from the NYT below to see just how flagrant this is and just how important it is that you enroll as one of the guerrilla troops who will shout "BS!" whenever these assaults on honesty spew forth.
How can we, or our children and grandchildren, live peacefully and usefully in a world where there is no common understanding of reality? Yet that is simply inevitable if we do nothing to protect honest speech and depictions. Thank you for caring enough to read this disturbing article, and for using the disturbance to energize your efforts to correct distortions of truth.
Eliot
Unfortunately, the Trump cult is using the Joseph Goebbels playbook on propaganda with all the new technology tools to achieve pervasiveness and effectiveness. I fear that 'No King' rallies and any media with integrity will not be enough to offset the polluted information schemes.