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RaymondPierreL3
@RaymondPierreL3@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Writer Ketan Joshi, in his article for Crickey asks where the demand for #disinformation and #misinformation comes from? He reasons that in accordance with the laws of supply and demand, if there wasn't such a demand, peddlers of lies and confabulations would have given up by now. But they haven't. If anything there's more otf them these days. So many that it's getting hard to avoid the slop.

"A good chunk of the “demand for disinformation” comes from people who’ve been sucked under the wheels of modern climate-solutions capitalism, and crave aesthetically plausible justifications for the ball of anger in their chest."

Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/misinformation-disinformation-climate-change/

Crikey

Reducing the demand for disinformation starts with working out why people believe bullshit so readily

Earlier this month a Senate inquiry heard testimony from officials, climate scientists and researchers about the scale of the problem in the climate and energy sector and its effects on Australian politics. I made a submission myself.
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