This is what's been happening now for two years at the level of a whole civilization.

"A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes. By the time the truth catches up, it's too late."
- Mark Twain

“Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…”

- Jonathan Swift

The Publicist-Wikipedia-Journalist pipeline

MEDIA FRAMING

Foreign countries restricting access to information: Repression of opposition! Oppression of citizens! Ruthless suppression of information! Criminalizing dissent!

Western countries restricting access to information: Oops, it was an accident! We had to do it to protect freedom. You are under arrest, and here's why that's a good thing.

Don’t talk to your kids about Ukraine. Tell them to go outside and play.

TODAY IN HISTORY: March 5th, 1616

Nicolaus Copernicus’s book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.

🤚 Audience Man Ordered To Leave Australian TV Show Q&A For Expressing Wrongthink On Russia after asking 'unapproved' question

🇺🇸 YouTube suspends The Hill’s popular show 'Rising' for 7 days for playing Trump clip referring to the rigged election

🚫 Discord Introduces New “Anti-Misinformation” Policy, Will Ban People for Off-Platform Behavior

social media moment 😑

When language is their weapon, we must study the bullets.

The full list of Rhetorical Figures of Speech:
http://changingminds.org/techniques/language/figures_speech/figures_speech.htm

We certainly get bombarded with enough of this one.