It's pretty easy to judge the US for what is happening right now, we certainly deserve it, but the decline of civic freedoms and liberalism is a global phenomenon.
We are experiencing a global assault on truth because truth provides a foundation on which to judge those in power.
Social media is the powerful's most potent weapon against truth. When social media combines with privatized intelligence companies, it creates a tool that can be used to divide and conquer societies, turning one half of the people against the other, deputizing the ignorant or vulnerable to fight for despots.
We are experiencing a global assault on truth because truth provides a foundation on which to judge those in power.
Social media is the powerful's most potent weapon against truth. When social media combines with privatized intelligence companies, it creates a tool that can be used to divide and conquer societies, turning one half of the people against the other, deputizing the ignorant or vulnerable to fight for despots.