Taibbi: Around that same time, writer Jacob Siegel \u2014 a former army infantry and intelligence officer who edits Tablet\u2019s afternoon digest, The Scroll \u2014 was beginning the job of putting key concepts on paper. As far back as 2019, he sketched out the core ideas for a sprawling, illuminating 13,000-word piece that just came out this week. Called \u201cA Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century: Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation,\u201d Siegel\u2019s Tablet article is the enterprise effort at describing the whole anti-disinformation elephant I\u2019ve been hoping for years someone in journalism would take on. <\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/tablets-grand-opus-anti-disinformation-complex<\/a><\/p>\n pdl – I’ll invite excerpts from Taibbi or Tablet for the comments<\/p>\n Siegel threads together all the disparate strands of a very complex story, in which the sheer quantity of themes is daunting: the roots in counter-terrorism strategy, Russiagate as a first great test case, the rise of a public-private \u201ccounter-disinformation complex\u201d nurturing an \u201cNGO Borg,\u201d the importance of Trump and \u201cdomestic extremism\u201d as organizing targets, the development of a new uniparty politics anointing itself \u201cprotector\u201d of things like elections, amid many other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taibbi: Around that same time, writer Jacob Siegel \u2014 a former army infantry and intelligence officer who edits Tablet\u2019s afternoon digest, The Scroll \u2014 was beginning the job of putting key concepts on paper. As far back as 2019, he … Continue reading