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Misinformed about misinformation Monday, January 23rd, 2023

Introduction.

Brian Stelter, formerly of CNN, recently hosted a panel discussion at Davos for the World

Economic Forum, and the topic was disinformation.

Other folks might call it misinformation, tomato, tomato.

But regardless, in Stelter's appearance there, we should find a cautionary tale.

Davos, for those who don't know, is a place in Switzerland where the world's elites periodically

gather in order to save us all from these darn carbon emissions.

They of course all burn a small ocean of fossil fuel to get there and all of their private

jets, and I even hear that the swank factor of their wealth is such that many of them even

order egg omelettes for their breakfast.

Ostentatious, I call it.

Back to Stelter.

To have a gentleman like that, on a panel discussion, on disinformation exhibits what might

be called a lack of self-awareness.

If they ever were to develop some scientific way to measure such things, the needle would

be bouncing on the right side of a little handheld clueless as meter.

But perhaps it is not cluelessness.

Perhaps the people who were dominating the world's agenda did not get where they are by

being stupid.

What else might be happening?

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