# notes --- - [[disinformation works because it plays on our existing biases]] - Originally read [[2024-11-15]], [[What Happened to Far-Right Disinformation (Web Clip)]] # highlights --- >==because trust in the mainstream media was already low, and local news had declined precipitously, there was a vacuum which hyper-partisan and fringe media quickly filled==.  >==what’s most notable is *just how effective the far-right has been at changing public discourse.* Far-right ideas have infiltrated our political discussion to such an extent that we barely view them as far-right anymore, let alone as disinformation==. >==while, in 2016, I put the blame for this firmly on social platforms — and they do bear some of the blame — I now understand that these disinformative narratives are successful precisely because they play on Americans’ pre-existing biases and prejudices. == >==The rise in far-right public opinion is not an organic grassroots movement, but a carefully architected campaign fueled by religious and ideological motivations. It is supported by fringe internet groups, but it is not caused by them==