Playlist for Show: Long Waves

The news  is that the internet is functioning as designed. To redesign the internet or to install “fact checking” AI would destroy the initial idea of the internet and undermine forever the prospect of access to information without concern about someone’s having altered it. As two current examples, the show explores Robert Mueller’s examples of Russian interference which remain unconvincing and the purported “evidence” of Syria’s use of poison gas. In the first instance, it is ok to for the US to interfere in other countries elections by improper for them to do the same. In the second instance,  no evidence of import is required to allege all manner of wrong-doing to other countries without evidence. This issue is explored in detail using examples from the international press.

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