Wagging the Dog 0
NPR investigates the potential for fabricating “news.” A snippet (emphasis added):
“One thing that kept me up at night was the concern that someday our adversaries would be able to create entire events with minimal effort,” Doermann said. “These events might include images of scenes from different angles, video content that appears from different devices and text that is delivered through various mediums providing an overwhelming amount of evidence that an event has occurred — and this could lead to social unrest or retaliation before it gets countered.”
In our society of gullible “social” media guzzlers, the report causes me considerable disquiet.