Saturday 29 October 2022

“‘Prebunking' teaches people how to spot disinformation : NPR” || Disinformation

Front page of Googling the phrase below. All are conservative outlets 
New word for me: "pre-bunking"
Which I find ironic. Given the biggest "pre-bunk" I know is the FBI, in August 2020, telling Facebook that some "Russian disinformation" would be coming down the pike. And FB muffled it.
Yet that was not false info. It was not Russian disinformation. 
Yet the folks forwarding this have no wry smile. No hint of knowing of that most notorious case of pre-bunking.
I realise now it's because they don't know about it. Even up to today.
If you Google "Joe Rogan talks to Zuckerberg about FBI warning about Hunter Biden laptop" and what you get is reports all on conservative outlets. Not one on NYT, CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, etc. And certainly not on NPR.
So it’s highly likely that liberals in America simply are not aware of the fact that the FBI intervened in the 2020 election by asking Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. They are not aware because they don’t look at conservative media. We know that to be true, by credible polls
No, we do not want these people to decide what we can and can't read. What is "pre-bunked" rather than debunked.  /Snip:
Officials in Ann Arbor, Mich., Union County, N.C., and Contra Costa County, Calif., are posting infographics on social media urging people to "think critically" about what they see and share about voting and to seek out reliable election information.
Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency put out a public service announcement saying cyberattacks are not likely to disrupt voting. Here