Ann Muir
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![[On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”
LESSON]
11
Investigate.
Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come fron abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.
"What is truth?" Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.
It is your ability to discem facts that mokes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge
that makes us a society. The
individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.
In 2016, an American presidential candidate claimed on a Russian propaganda outlet that American media has been unbelievably dishonest." He banned many reporters from his rallies, and regularly elicited hatred of journalists from the public.
Like the leaders of authoritarian regimes, he promised to suppress freedom of speech by laws that would prevent crificism. As president, he used the word lies to mean facts not to his liking, and called journalists enemies of the people (as Hitler and the Nazis had done) Where the Nazis said "Lugenpresse, he said "Fake news.”
That president was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qkubc5da4aytqw52o7g5ug5m/bafkreiepxtwo4dt24zofyxpmknuz37oilloubgnzpb2xfxuig72rtmk7s4@jpeg)
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