LA Times gushes about "Dems plotting a **counter**-attack on...disinformation?? Wait...

Propaganda in the LA Times three days ago:

Democrats plot a counterattack on disinformation in hopes of taking back the White House

"A counterattack on disinformation," eh?  Wow.  Projection much?  Would that be statements like "Open borders are good for Americans"?  Or maybe "There's no such thing as an illegal person.  Undocumented immigrants are actually better Americans than native-born Americans!"

As conservative conspiracy theories and deepfake videos race through the internet, defying the fact-checkers and bruising political candidates, Curtis Hougland is trying to fight back by borrowing from the playbook of his adversaries.

God knows we can't have citizens trying to "defy the fact-checkers," eh citizen?  Cuz dem fact-checkers are the only agents that are keeping you safe from "disinformation," "conservatve conspiracy theories" and "deepfake videos."  Wow.

Again, the Times is projecting.  The article is pure propaganda.

Hougland, a technologist and online-extremism expert, is hiring small armies of social-media mercenaries to do battle for Democrats.

Ah, an "expert" in "on-line extremism!  Wow, dat's exactly what we need, cuz, you know, dat "extremism" stuff bees real real bad!  Like, saying da Chinese virus originated in...a lab in Wuhan, China or sumpin'.

See, I just violated their rules against "online extremism."  My bad.

These are not troops predisposed to political warfare.... But they hold a weapon that’s lacking among internet activists in the echo chambers of the left: large and devoted followings of persuadable voters.

“We are making a bet that human networks can out-compete the bots and trolls and sock puppets,” said Hougland.

So he's recruiting "large and devoted followings of persuadable voters" to "out-compete bots and trolls and sock puppets," eh?   But see, he would NEVER have done this had he not been FORCED to by da eeeebil right-wing conspiracy, right?  He was FORCED to this tactic.   Yep yep yep.

Project much?

It’s a fraught bet, one of many Democrats are making as they confront the growing threat that disinformation presents to their hopes of retaking the White House. Since the pandemic took hold, the false narratives ricocheting through social media have surged.

Conspiracy theories and false claims springing from the pandemic are fast blurring into political attacks, typically pointed at Democrats and sometimes propelled by President Trump. While their party has grown adept at tracking the origin and spread of the disinformation, Democrats have yet to find an effective strategy for depriving it of oxygen, particularly as the social media companies — including Facebook and Twitter — are proving to be feckless partners in the fight.

This is a hoot.  If you're a college-age American you may not be familiar with the word "feckless."  A fair translation would be unreliable or incompetent.  So the Times is trying to get you to believe that the social-media giants are NOT reliably Left-wing, pro-Democrat.  This is utter horse-shit, yet they printed it with a straight face.  And idiot propagandists like CNN's Don Lemon spew the same shit.

The companies are taking down and labeling as suspect more content than in the past, but are unable to keep pace with all the posts that violate their terms. And they are unwilling to ban the large volume of material, such as Trump’s false claims, that could be branded political speech.

Actually, yesterday Twatter slapped a big graphic on a tweet by the president that said voting by mail would lead to more vote fraud.  Twatter's graphic said that "fact-checkers" had ruled that was "a lie."  Of course they'd put the same "lie" graphic on a tweet by a leftist or Democrat too, right?

Hahahahahahaha!  What horse-shit.

For example, in recent days the president proudly announced he was ingesting hydroxychloroquine, despite studies questioning its efficacy and safety in combating the coronavirus, and endorsed conspiracy theories about voting fraud using absentee ballots.

A more effective response, disinformation experts say, might provide useful information about the risks of ingesting such untested drugs ...

HCQ was approved in 1940, and since then has been taken by tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people around the world.  It's been thoroughly tested.  The LA Times lies so effortlessly, counting on the fact that 99% of its readers believe their lies.

Talk about "disinformation" and "conspiracy theories," eh?

A network of trustworthy messengers is essential, the experts say, to slowing the spread of debunked material. 

"A network of trustworthy messengers," eh?  Wow, how do you suppose such a network would be recruited, eh?  Who would do the recruiting?  Who would the recruiters consider "trustworthy"?  The answer, of course, is that the social-media giants--totally left-wing--would do the recruiting, and every one of the "trustworthy messengers" will be dedicated leftists.

Cool, eh?

[Dem strategists are] mobilizing influencers who have common cause with the candidate or ballot issue. They point to Kentucky, where an influencer they engaged to help undermine support for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was a mom with the social media tagline “bourbon, basketball and God,” who wasn’t a political activist but drew their attention for posting her disgust over McConnell’s push to dismantle Obamacare.
****["Influencers] may have helped Democrats win the close Kentucky governor’s race last year, and their disciplined social media strategy also stifled false claims of ballot tampering from conservatives casting doubt on the election result.

The dilemma for Democrats is that the disinformation threat has grown so big and complicated that small measures won’t dent it. European countries have had some success...

The author is referring to the fact that in several European countries you can be thrown in jail and fined tens of thousands of dollars if you post something on-line that some politically-correct snowflake doesn't like.  Seriously, it's happened scores of times already.  Same thing in Canada.  And the Times wants that make a law here. 

...but by making structural changes that are all but impossible in the U.S.: significant oversight of online platforms, expansive public education campaigns, aggressive enforcement of laws criminalizing certain disinformation.

In the 2016 presidential election, both the Democratic nominee and voters were caught off guard by the assault from bots, troll farms and fake Facebook groups, many of them controlled by foreign operatives.

Ah, re-introducing the now-totally-discredited screams of "Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election from our rightful empress!!!" but without actually mentioning Russia.  Merely "foreign operatives."  Not named, cuz they didn't need to:  The Left only screamed about one "foreign operative": Russia.  And not a single witness had any information proving collusion.  But hey, innuendo works, eh?

Wait, isn't innuendo a type of disinformation?

Ooooh, see?  The Times is getting really good at this!

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