Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America — How Lies Become Power
What happens when disinformation stops being merely false information and becomes a system for exercising power?
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Using Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates how deliberate falsehoods can exploit human psychology, technological amplification, political incentives, and institutional distrust.
McQuade argues that disinformation is not simply a collection of inaccurate claims. It can become part of a larger strategy of power: provoke…
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