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Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
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Facts and Fears: Hard Truths
Getting its target audience to conclude that facts and truth are "unknowable" is the true objective of any disinformation campaign. Climate change deniers aren't trying to convince people that surveys they commissioned are better than those agreed upon by the vast majority of scientists. Antigovernment conspiracy theorists aren't really trying to convince people that some towns in the Midwest are governed under Sharia law, or that Jade Helm was an attempt by Obama to come for their guns. If someone actually believes the falsehood, that's a bonus, but the primary objective is to get readers or viewers to throw their hands up and give up on "facts." Do vaccines cause autism? Maybe. Was Senator Ted Cruz's father involved with President Kennedy's assassination? Anything's possible. Is Hillary Clinton running a child-sex ring out of the basement of a DC pizza parlor? Who knows?"
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