If you spend any time on social media, this is an incredibly important article about misinformation for you to read and understand. You may not have time or inclination to read the extensive warnings of the SCO, House Intel, SSCI, and the intelligence community at large, but you do have 15 minutes to read this.
Please think–then think again–before you post, share, respond or react to anything without knowing its origin, its purpose, or its credibility, especially if it’s been crafted as easily shareable content like memes. Please consider whether you want to stay on platforms which give propaganda agency and oxygen without judgment or safeguard, with your personal data and metadata as fuel for the algorithms, and pictures of your family and your friends and and your pets as smokescreens to hide the activity. I still see very smart people doing very stupid things in the service of bad actors they actively oppose, amplifying extremist messaging and, worse, bringing their friends into the influence stream.
If you can’t detect bad intent, if you can’t restrain yourself from sharing it, if you simply don’t know what you’re doing, then the world is better off if you delete your account. And honestly, in the case of some of the more popular platforms, it’s already far too late to stop the flood, so it’s a good recommendation to do it now before you get swept away in the tsunami that’s coming.
[from The Yale Review]
