There was a time when, if something appeared in the media, we tended to believe it. After all, the news wouldn’t lead us wrong. We trusted newspapers and TV and radio. Didn’t they have journalists and reporters and editors and investigators digging for the truth?
Even with that naïve belief, we still tipped into conspiratorial territory. I think a big tipping point was the assassination of JFK in 1963. When the “Warren Commission Report” came out, millions of people just couldn’t accept its finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was working alone.
Then came the Vietnam War. Then came stories that the CIA was meddling in foreign governments and orchestrating coups. Then Watergate, which completely shattered trust. Since then, it became normal to be suspicious, wary, and vigilant when it came to B.S.
What weren’t governments and institutions telling us? What were they hiding? A lot, as it turns out. That’s now accepted fact.
We’re pretty accustomed to hoaxes now. The internet has desensitized us. A celebrity has died? Let’s wait for official confirmation. That photo looks incriminating. Deepfake. Is that suspicious, salacious video real? AI.
But let’s go back to a time before we became savvy and aware of how disinformation originated, spread, and then was accepted as gospel.
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