Tablet & Jacob Siegel: A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century

Be sure to check out this remarkable, deep dive into “Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation.” Written by investigative journalist Jacob Siegel, senior writer at Tablet, the article starts with the notorious Joseph McCarthy’s “205 communists in the State Department (later revised down to 57), which Siegel opines “was the accusation…which made McCarthy’s name synonymous with the politics of the era.” He then traces the evolution — if that’s the word — of state-sponsored disinformation, ranging Facebook’s exaggerated role in Trump’s election, to the “Borg” mind of NGOs, and many more. Thirteen sections in all, each more compulsively readable and informative than the last.

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A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century

Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation, by Jacob Siegel

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