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“A significant number of Americans don’t seem to care anymore whether a statement is true. What seems to matter instead is whether any given message is consistent with their worldview.”
Barbara McQuade, Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Olga Tokarczuk
“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.”
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Christina Waters
“Live each day like your hair's on fire!”
Christina Waters

“to Sarah Longwell, a GOP strategist critical of Trump, ordinary voters who continue to be election deniers “aren’t bad or unintelligent people. The problem is that the Big Lie is embedded in their daily life. They hear from Trump-aligned politicians, their like-minded peers, and MAGA-friendly media outlets—and from these sources they hear the same false claims repeated ad infinitum.”537 The public’s willingness to embrace, repeat, and amplify disinformation portends a frightening future for democracy in America.”
Barbara McQuade, Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

“Tactics in the authoritarian playbook include appealing to emotion over reason, exploiting divisions, undermining critics, dismantling public institutions, stoking violence,99 and creating an image of the Great Leader as both an everyman and a superman.100 Disinformation is the catalyst that allows these tactics to work. The”
Barbara McQuade, Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

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