Et si on laissait la désinformation gagner ? Les vrais risques de l’inaction
Et si la désinformation n’était pas un accident, mais le cœur du modèle de Facebook ? Dans cet article, j’explore les risques profonds — sociaux, politiques et cognitifs — que nous encourons collectivement si rien ne change.
I'll write a lot more if it gets accepted somewhere! But it's a short article so if you care about #polarisation (whichever way you spell it) you might want to read it now.
The #MultiPoD project: A European Public Space for Citizen Deliberation 
At a time of #polarisation and political biases, can we foster an open and inclusive political deliberation across linguistic and socio-cultural boundaries?
#Decidim is participating in a new EU-funded project, MultiPoD, contributing to the conceptualisation and development of a digital collaborative infrastructure to foster political participation across #Europe.
Read more in our new article: https://decidim.org/blog/2025-04-10-the-multipod-project-a-european-public-space-for-citizen-deliberation/
“The silencing of pro-Palestinian or anti-genocide voices is the reason why this genocide is still going on after 10 months.”
Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Rector of the University of Glasgow, 1 August 2024
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https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/hegemony-factories-or-independent-thinkers (source: [1])
It contains a HUGE misunderstanding:
"pro-Palestinian" and "anti-genocide" voices are two *VERY* different things.
Perhaps NOT from the PoV of Palestinians, but DEFINITELY from the viewpoint of most west-EU citizens, their media and their governments.
Sunday I joined a protest in Rotterdam that was announced as an emergy protest "do not let Gaza starve" (in Dutch: [2]).
However, *AGAIN* it was a *PRO-PALESTINE* protest (see the video I made in https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114291502939774579).
West-EU people, and possibly "their" think tanks, are made to believe that they have to choose between *either* Palestine *or* Israel to exist "from the river to the sea".
Enormously affecting western thinking, the Israeli propaganda machine does their utter best to continuously remind us of the Holocaust, and to make us believe that anyone who denies Israel from "defending themselves against terrorism" is a Holocaust-denier and/or an antisemite. Unfortunately, this *just works*.
On Dutch TV viewers are reminded of WWII *every day*. It simply is #Hasbara without viewers noticing it, and even the media fail to see their bias.
[Note: my grandfather, born in 1900, was a Jew. He was sent to nazi labour camps (instead of Auschwitz) because he was maried to a Dutch woman. His family was murdered by the nazi's. I do not hate non-Zionist Jews.]
Pro-Palestine demonstrations have been counter-productive from the start. If the most extremist arguments are not removed, like shouting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", I will remain one of the very few Dutch people who is willing to join such protests. And I'm getting tired, because it feels pointless.
IMO #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight - but her PoV is considered to be too extremistic, in particular when taking into account the immense failure of EU-countries to protect Jews during WWII. It is why hasbara works so well (in Germany in particular).
The cold blooded execution of the rescue workers made it to the news on Dutch TV, but the murder of approx. 17,000 Gazan children and the starvation of 2 million hardly gets any attention.
If polarization is not reduced RIGHT NOW, the media will turn away again. In particular because this year it's 80 years ago WWII ended in NL (victim remembrance day is on May 4), the tone of the debate needs to change. NOW.
If not, 2 million Gazans will die.
[1] Bilal Barakat (@bifouba) in https://kolektiva.social/@bifouba/114302380048285492
[2] https://acties.todon.nl/event/noodprotest-laat-gaza-niet-uithongeren
@joenepraat : do you know how to get my message to the protest organizers?
"Democratic countries are now in the minority, freedom of expression is declining, and high levels of #disinformation and #polarisation fuel democratic backsliding."
New #Democracy Report from the V-Dem Institute:
"#Polarisation stops political parties from cooperating and poisons relations between individuals."
Political scientist Frederico Ferreira da Silva and his colleagues at UNIL have studied the increase in what he describes as a "threat to #democracy."
#OpenSsource implementation of #polarisation-resolved single-shot differential #phase contrast #microscopy (#pDPC) on a modular #openFrame-based #microscope:
-cost: ∼£2.5 k
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2024.e00622
#DIYbio #lab #instruments #QPI #imaging #fluorescence #infrared
This is a super interesting paper on EU affective #polarisation #polarization a) love table b) would love to see table 4 compared to RU and Musk in-language propaganda spend, particularly plotted over time.
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/8531/3968
Affective Polarization Among Radical‐Right Supporters: Dislike Differentiation and Democratic Support
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"A liberalism whose defining value should have been liberty invented a diversity and inclusion industry whose guiding principle may have been justice but whose means of enforcement included coercion, public disgrace and exclusion." #giftArticle
Despite the terrible title and tagline, this is one of the best things I've read about #polarisation / #polarization since the 1960s, identity politics, and liberalism.
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The OECD report [1] also notes:
"Internet platforms and social media also make it easier to spread false and misleading information. Some actors may do so deliberately to distort public debates and fuel #polarisation. At times this may form part of a #HybridWarfare tactic, to erode the social fabric of open societies and weaken their defences. Such #disinformation campaigns have already been observed"
This may recall the #EvidenceSubversion risk in science
(thread: https://hostux.social/@dderigo/113523640776941306)
@tzimmer_history Trump a redéfini la droite américaine en exploitant les craintes d'une classe moyenne délaissée, en utilisant les médias pour amplifier son message et en s'alignant sur des mouvements anti-élitistes. Sa polarisation a créé un soutien électoral stable, tout en détruisant l'héritage Obama. Des think tanks comme ceux de Bannon ont renforcé son discours nationaliste. Trump a transformé le paysage politique américain. 
#Trumpisme #DroiteAméricaine #Politique #Médias #Polarisation
Political dishonesty, disillusionment with politics, #polarisation, and shrinking attention spans are pushing voters to judge politicians on vibes, not policies, leaving us open to manipulation by hostile foreign powers.
Read my article here 
#disinfo #politics #disinformation #DefendDemocracy #tiktok #eupol #TheFarRight #romania #malta #EU
https://jmaris.me/jekyll/update/2024/11/26/TikTokDemocracy.html
Pourquoi la France est vulnérable à une dérive «à l’américaine»
La victoire de Donald Trump est indissociable de la #polarisation délétère de la vie politique aux États-Unis. Si la France n’est pas dans la même situation, elle est un pays plus «à risque» que d’autres en Europe de l’Ouest.
Bonjour @blast_info & @LeMediaTV
M'est d'avis que,
Vous n'êtes PAS OBLIGÉ DE GUEULER SUR VOS TITRES DE VIDÉOS ÇA DEVIENT FATIGUANT ;
C'EST CHIANT À LIRE,
Et vos titres SENSATIONNELS N'AIDENT PAS À FAIRE CIRCULER VOS #VIDÉOS AU DELÀ DES CONVAINCUS.
Il n'y a pas que le #SEO agressif dans la vie, le référencement naturel ça marche aussi 
Very very happy that this major publication from my @arc_gov_au Laureate Fellowship project on #polarisation is finally out now in @icsjournal, and thanks especially to @kathaesa for leading this publication.
(And don’t worry, the article does *not* contain this image. 
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RT @kathaesa: How does #polarisation manifest in media & communication at breaking points? Our new @icsjournal article identifies 5 key symptoms of destructive polarisation
: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2413127
@endlessendless wrote:
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But if there is enough evidence that a majority of Muslims is hating you for any (religious) reason....
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Except that I'm convinced that there is no such evidence - on the contrary.
Yes, each religion, as well as the (growing) group usually called atheists, has at least a minority of *IDIOTS*.
However, a huge majority of Muslims is peaceful. That's actually how their religious books tell them to behave.
For example: my father, who was a Mennonite preacher, was in charge of (and a teacher at) a school for Mennonite preachers in Indonesia for 6 years, starting 1965 (a large share of all Muslims lives in Indonesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Indonesia). I lived there too during those 6 years (I was at my primary school age).
*If* Indonesian people disliked or even hated us, that was *not* primarily because of religious reasons, but because Dutch people had colonized Indonesia (around WW2) and had murdered many Indonesian citizens. *WE* (actually one of my uncles, who fought there as a soldier) were the terrorists.
However, even if some or all of the Indonesians we've met may have hated us, *NONE* of them ever ran towards us carrying knives, guns or even explosives tied to their body. Instead, *every* grown up was extremely polite, and children were children (some of them scolded my sister and me "Londoh" - slang for Belanda, which is Indonesian for Dutch - but many kids became friends that I used to play with).
You are encouraging a self-fulfilling prophecy. Let's hate Muslims, because you, "endlessness", were made to believe that the majority of Muslims hates you.
Guess how that story will end if everyone becomes an "endlessness".
Will that be like how the heavily encouraged hatred between US citizens (regardless of religion, not taking into account worshipped politicians) will definitely lead to a civil war?
And/or how the mutual hatred between Israeli's and non-Israeli's (regardless of religion) in the Middle East has already led to pointless but extreme suffering of many?
I'm glad that I don't think like you.
Spannendes Experiment: iPhone Kamera sieht bei starkem Regen mehr als ein menschliches Auge
Bei starkem Regen oder wilden Stürmen sieht man vielfach keine zwei Meter weit. Man kennt es beim Wandern in den Bergen oder beim Autofahren. Ein ekliges Gefühl. Da hilft oft nur warten, bis sich der Sturm verzogen hat. Oder man macht sich die Eigenschaft der iPhone-Kamera zu nutz…
Artikel lesen: https://www.iphone-blog.ch/2024/08/05/spannendes-experiment-iphone-kamera-sieht-bei-starkem-regen-mehr-als-ein-menschliches-auge/
Narcissism and Affective Polarization
“Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship. This potentially not only explains why some people are more susceptible to affective polarization, but also has implications for elite polarization given that narcissism is an important predictor of elite entry.”
Tilley, J., Hobolt, S. Narcissism and Affective Polarization. Polit Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09963-5
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Polarization #Polarisation #Politics #PoliticalScience #Identity #Narcissism #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
@mastodonmigration wrote: <<< It's journalism's job to correct blatant falsehoods, >>>
I disagree. Your blatant falsehood is someone else's truth.
It should NOT be journalism's job to please advertisers who target a specific audience, but to show readers the full picture - by providing them with POV's from interesting people with different opinions (who really know what they're talking about), and to refer to facts provided by trustworthy, unbiased sources.
It's journalism's job to make *their READERS* think - not to think for them.
When people fail to understand that polarization benefits third parties, then
the question is not *whether* this eventually will blow up in their faces.
#NAFO 
