The Weaponized Propaganda Machine – Chapter 5

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. – George Orwell, 1984 As we’ve already seen, data gathered by companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter allows them to target adverts based on our every click. They can build detailed profiles about our personality, complex webs…

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Chatter #123 – Bret Schafer on Information Warfare and How Social Media Disrupts Democracy

[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvbelink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Bret Schafer from the Alliance for Securing Democracy was my guest on today’s show. I first spoke to Bret 3 years ago on the show to discuss the weaponisation of information and the threat to democracy. Now, three years later, things have unfortunately got worse and not better. A…

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