TODAY IN HISTORY: October 30th, 1938

Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, mesmerizing large numbers of listeners into a fever pitch of madness, believing that Martians were invading the United States.

It seems like the Twitter Birdwatch crowdsourced fact check system might not be so bad after all

"In the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty element of luck. And, similarly, getting something wrong wasn’t a moral failing. Treating pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others is preventing us from moving forward." — Emily Oster

🔗 The Atlantic: Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty

Let's take a look at what the author of this article calling for "pandemic amnesty" and forgiveness was saying in the summer of last year. Pictured is a tweet by Emily Oster, Goldman Sachs Professor at Brown University and wife of Jesse Shapiro (Jewish), saying "fear-based motivation" to get vaccinated doesn't go far enough.

"Sorry we deliberately terrorized you, then got you fired, gave your child a heart condition, and killed your wife with a blood clot to the brain, we all good now?"

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Up next on CNN: The dark side of fact checking and how they can pose a danger to democracy

“I was a professional football player for 17 years... I never saw one player in my entire career with a heart problem. Not one. Now all these players start collapsing… The media have been so complicit in all of this." — Matt LeTissier

Jordan Peterson: The problem with Twitter is that it can be used anonymously.

Peterson claims that anonymous posters are "literally a demonic force" and "not even human."

He calls for all anonymous accounts to be banned and says that big tech companies should be legally required to deanonymize the internet.

Our enemies are obsessed with jamming our OODA Loops. They do not want us to have even a moment to think. An OODA loop is a decision making process: observe–orient–decide–act. We take in information, and we make a decision on how to act to change things. Our enemies keep distracting us with constantly changing information, and we keep getting stuck in the OO stage, never making decisions, never acting to change things, because we are constantly trying to figure out the nature of the trap we are caught in. But that is the trap we are caught in! We end up stuck in endless puzzling debates, making no productive plans to achieve victory in even one small way.

When a fresh news story gets hyped up, and people say "oh oh they are just distracting us", it is THINKING TIME they are distracting us from. A moment for the dust to settle, for even a minute of propaganda-free time, to be able to make a plan to counter our enemy's plans. They cannot allow us this minute. We are allowed no firm place to stand. They have to bombard us with useless factoids and storylines 24/7, little rabbit holes and dead-ends and intrigue and drama, or else we might form together into something capable of defeating their psychological operations. Distraction and overload is their primary weapon against us. Unfortunately, we keep falling for this trick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop