@lukeburgis end\ Crucially, the desecration works not chiefly by suppressing facts but by corrupting the word: deforming the names through which moral valence becomes legible. Euphemism registers as neutrality; moral clarity as bias; procedural doubt falls selectively upon the victims.
2/ In effect, the development has been powerfully accelerated by state actors positioning social media governance not as content moderation or free speech fault lines, but as extensions of national security strategy requiring a new form of control, namely, infrastructure capture.
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Copy of tweet here: Yup. Take exponentially augmented upgrades in persuasive generative AI and the tools to massively amplify it, add bad faith state and tech actors with untold resources on tap, and manipulative media abruptly crosses an authoritarian threshold at the planetary level. Then again… @nick_routledge "...the backstage fusion between human and machine authority....modes of governance normalised by digital platforms...algorithmic level of governance as an increasingly key field of political struggle...digital post-democracy...‘swarm governance’..." @johnrobb @nils_gilman 1/ Why stop at polls? With the fusion of military and corporate functions in a single, conjoined mediasphere, vast resources - increasingly, at a machine level - aimed at dominating perception of reality itself, now define planetary war at the level of total consciousness.