How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain
The most impressive application I&#x27;ve seen of this lately is the &quot;all journalists are bad&quot; idea. Having hidden under a rock for the last few years (deleted twitter, no social media except here), I was surprised when I started seeing that sentiment appear on HN: &quot;Sure tabloid X is all lies, but NY Times&#x2F;WaPo&#x2F;etc don&#x27;t check facts&quot;, &quot;They only print what generates clicks - so they&#x27;re all terrible&quot;.<p>The third time I saw that sentiment repeated here I googled around a bit, and it seems like that originated a couple of years ago - and was repeated enough that it worked really really well. No one believes any journalism now and every publication is equally wrong!<p>I&#x27;m jaded enough that I don&#x27;t care about too much - but damn that has a scary &quot;history repeating&quot; feeling about it.