I think a good tool against this could be to have an international nonprofit organization of investigative journalists, OSINT experts, and detectives (and experts in seeing through AI abuse and other fraudulent media behaviour, and as soon as they build reputation they would need damn good lawyers too). They would act as a fast-response crack-team to look under the covers every time any powers-that-be launch a news cycle chaos-offensive (which sadly these days is “all the time”). Not just as a side-hustle or section of a general publication, but as its own non-profit-beholden organisation dedicated to that task.
They would follow the timings and run contextual pattern recognition on all the big/fishy “look over here” announcements (or character hit-pieces attacking the credibility of people sharing uncomfortable or explosive information). Their explicit goal though would be surfacing the most promising other stories that are being buried, combine and tug on those threads to discover what kind of meta-stories and deeper narratives are being lost in the “manufactured mainstream” noise, and provide announcements/advice/guidance to other journalists and reporters on what to do next with those. They would need to all be highly experienced and disciplined expert investigators of impeccable integrity to provide adequate mental-vaccination against risks of sliding into conspiracy-hypothesising tin-hat territory due to the nature of the work.
In addition to the obligatory website for people to discover and learn about them, they could provide a non-paywalled RSS stream of their findings, tongue-in-cheek naming it “While you were out”, maybe with a sister podcast discussing their findings called “Excuse me, I think you dropped this”.
This is a great idea! I would totally donate to such a thing.
Related to this: That’s why Wikipedia is now in the crossfire, as they document everything and anything that is going on, which is a pain in the ass for those robber barons.
Check out propublica. They partner with a lot of local journalists to tease out deeper stories, often in topics that aren’t getting much press. They would absolutely appreciate a donation.
Seconded. Limit your screentime and filter out any communities and social media that seem like a broken record. Energy is a must if the 50501 movement is going to continue.
I know, but us zoning out is exactly what they want by overwhelming us with as much bullshit as possible atm.
I think a good tool against this could be to have an international nonprofit organization of investigative journalists, OSINT experts, and detectives (and experts in seeing through AI abuse and other fraudulent media behaviour, and as soon as they build reputation they would need damn good lawyers too). They would act as a fast-response crack-team to look under the covers every time any powers-that-be launch a news cycle chaos-offensive (which sadly these days is “all the time”). Not just as a side-hustle or section of a general publication, but as its own non-profit-beholden organisation dedicated to that task.
They would follow the timings and run contextual pattern recognition on all the big/fishy “look over here” announcements (or character hit-pieces attacking the credibility of people sharing uncomfortable or explosive information). Their explicit goal though would be surfacing the most promising other stories that are being buried, combine and tug on those threads to discover what kind of meta-stories and deeper narratives are being lost in the “manufactured mainstream” noise, and provide announcements/advice/guidance to other journalists and reporters on what to do next with those. They would need to all be highly experienced and disciplined expert investigators of impeccable integrity to provide adequate mental-vaccination against risks of sliding into conspiracy-hypothesising tin-hat territory due to the nature of the work.
In addition to the obligatory website for people to discover and learn about them, they could provide a non-paywalled RSS stream of their findings, tongue-in-cheek naming it “While you were out”, maybe with a sister podcast discussing their findings called “Excuse me, I think you dropped this”.
I love this idea and would donate to something like this.
This is a great idea! I would totally donate to such a thing.
Related to this: That’s why Wikipedia is now in the crossfire, as they document everything and anything that is going on, which is a pain in the ass for those robber barons.
Check out propublica. They partner with a lot of local journalists to tease out deeper stories, often in topics that aren’t getting much press. They would absolutely appreciate a donation.
Seconded. Limit your screentime and filter out any communities and social media that seem like a broken record. Energy is a must if the 50501 movement is going to continue.
I can’t recommend going to a protest enough. It’s incredibly reaffirming to have a crowd around you that believes the same thing you do.
For others who, like me, haven’t yet heard what the 50501 Movement is, here you go