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Originally Posted by bots
In our relatively recent history, we had 2 world wars where the radio was used to spread disinformation. After the war we had Russia and China making up all sorts of disinformation and the west responded (to a degree) in kind. One of the famous ones was Regans star wars program which was 100% fiction 
So what I am basically saying, disinformation has always been with us, and the side that usually wins that argument, is the side that won the war/battle etc etc |
I agree it's always been with us, as above though I just think what's clearer than ever, to put it much more simply, is that for the mostpart people will believe what they want to believe, and brand what they don't want to believe to be false. It has very little to do with objective reality and everything to do with sociology and "feelings".
It gets more complicated when you factor in global communications of course - the "spread" is no longer local, not to the same extent anyway, hence why we have so many in the UK so firmly immersed in US-centric propaganda (and why it spreads so easily to other nations).
As an aside thought; it seems clear to me that if the 1930's Nazi's had been broadcasting freely on British radiowaves in English we'd have been in big fkn trouble.