Dr Abdullah bin Musa Al Tayer
We no longer needed Goebbels’ throat to lie and lie so that people would believe him. In the age of social networks, this task is very easy, because all it takes is to create a lie, no matter how big it is, and make it your own. An attractive template, then hire someone to launch it in every direction. In 1794 James Baptiste Coto observed that “a lie is slow, weak and bound, but writing it gives it two wings of paper, and like a bird, with which it divides the clouds, and the province flies from province to province, and country to country” has become obsolete as paper is taking a backseat in favor of technology that transmits information simultaneously across social networks.
And if in Mark Twain’s time a lie could travel between worlds while the truth was still wearing its shoes, then in our present age it could circle the world several times before being moved from its comfortable bed. And if al-David believes that “one lie has the ability to distort a thousand truths,” then the power possessed by a contemporary lie blows millions of facts from their foundations, not just distorts them.
Rashid Janooja writes, “The lack of ethical, legal and intellectual scrutiny in the form of editorial censorship and legal sanction make social media platforms a real weapon of mass deception, with the same disruptive potential as weapons of mass destruction.” The gatekeepers in the age of paper and mass media were selective censorship that limited the spread of directionless anarchy and rivalry, so that the gentle and anarchic spread of messages of discord between rivals was the publisher-funded ideal for this type of material. became. “A mass of uneducated, unemployed, frustrated and angry youth today are ready to consume and create fake paid content. Lack of opportunities and absence of rule of law have created a dangerous environment in which lies, populism and rumors are prevalent ”
Colin Powell, and the mass media directed behind him, failed to convince the world of the falsity of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in 2003 AD, but the extreme right-wing discourse, skillfully used on social networks, did not find it difficult. To convince all but millions of Americans that the 2020 election was rigged, a January 6, 2021 attack inspired hundreds more extremism in the heart of Congress.
In her book Republic of Lies, Anna Merlon provides an accurate description of the people behind the lies, points across the political spectrum with her index finger, and helps to deconstruct the conditions that have created a society that which lacked a social safety net. , Inadequate education, was exposed to bitter culture wars, and suffered for years. Prolonged economic insecurity has led to a belief among large groups of people that they have been forgotten and cornered by their government. Anna recognized that the contemporary position of Americans in a permanent climate of alienation and resentment is an ideal environment for conspiracy movements and the promotion of lies.
US Fox News Channel must legally pay nearly $1.6 billion in damages to the technology company that managed voting in the 2020 presidential election, and it appeared in a case file on how the channel’s broadcasters tried to maintain their integrity. Promoted lies for. audience, as he said. This is one of the rare cases in the country that guarantees freedom of speech, but the company filing the suit is pushing through its lawyer to come up with a story and evidence to prove that the lie is free speech protected by the Constitution. There is no freedom.
It is no longer a case of alienating public opinion, ignoring the people and soft-murdering the people, but of lying and being immersed in scholarly ignorance and unable to exercise its full powers in creating false consciousness and false reality who are unable to cope with societies. face existential challenges.