The Fake News Factory
We are entering a new era of social media where everyone lives in digital silos and the cost of spreading falsehoods is next to nothing.
KIA ORA. IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and this week's edition comes to you from New Zealand. I'm taking a couple weeks off, so the next newsletter will hit your inboxes on July 14.
I'm trying something different this week.
Ahead of the 2024 global megacycle of elections, I had the idea of explaining the links between the digital tactics that have now become all too common in how politicians get elected from Pakistan and Portugal to the United Kingdom and the United States.
Life, however, got in the way. (The best I did was this package around artificial intelligence, disinformation and elections.) So, I'm taking another crack at how we all now live in the Fake News Factory.
Let's get started: