Prior to the internet the press controlled public opinion. We are living in a era of truth now.
They have already fixed this. Most people don’t think about the Internet and access the majority of their information from providers like META.
The Internet is controlled now, but it isn’t entirely controlled yet. The next nail in the coffin will be age verification which will lead to the banning of VPNs if the advertising industry gets what they want.
Advertisers would never destroy good things! You take that back!
Why would they care about hiding it when there are no consequences?
We are living in a era of truth now.
Do we though? Yes, the truth is more easily to find but so is a ton of other stuff. Flooding the zone makes the truth more difficult to find.
And while this is arguably the first genocide that’s live streamed, the Vietnam War was already televised and it had similar effects. Also, in the past it was easier to have a newspaper so both truth and fake news were easy to multiply. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying it isn’t as new and unique a situation as it might look like.
Hideo Kojima literally predicted this.
He saw the entire problem of an overwhelming amount of dubious slop being produced on the internet, to the point that AIs would be constructed to manage and curate this information.
This is literally the plot of MGS2, released in 2001, very early days of the ‘public’ internet.
… but no one came up with a better solution to the problem.
When that game came out, that was a futuristic sci-fi political thriller (also arguably cyberpunk) plot.
Now, it’s basically just reality.
We are living in a era of truth now.
We are living in a era of information warfare.
The only reason the genocide got to the people uncensored was because the geopolitical enemy had a mainstream platform that the genociding side/allies didn’t control.
So what did the genocidal side do? They tried to discredit them, smear them, ban them, and finally forced them to be bought out.
It had its own agenda but that aligned with showing the atrocities of the enemy. Other atrocities like those of Sudan and Syria were not this popular.
So yea, truth is more widespread if there’s an opponent that benefits in revealing them. For other things, YMMV.
