Suppressing populist common sense.
Kurt Mahlburg has a useful Mercator piece on the obvious bias of so-called misinformation experts.
Do conservative misinformation experts exist?
I just found out that there’s a peer-reviewed journal dedicated entirely to the topic of misinformation.
It was brought to my attention this week in a tweet by Bjorn Lomborg, who had evidently been browsing its pages.
Misinformation Review is the publication’s rather benign title. Launched in 2020, the open-access journal is run out of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School — Harvard University’s school of public policy and government. Wheels within wheels and all that.
The journal’s website boasts that “over 40 misinformation experts from over 20 different universities and institutes” serve on its Editorial Board, and that its pages are viewed hundreds of thousands of times annually.
What could possibly go wrong?
Plenty, according to Bjorn Lomborg.
Some will have seen this before, but the whole piece is well worth reading. It’s a reminder that the rise of so-called misinformation experts seems to be associated with the realisation that ordinary people could become too well-informed for elite requirements. As Mahlburg says, what is being attempted here is the suppression of populist common sense – it is this which we see every day and which is so striking.
It’s no secret that the vocabulary of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation invaded mainstream discourse with a vengeance shortly after Brexit and Donald Trump’s surprise 2016 election victory.
The internet’s fabled democratisation of information — buoyed by the rise of social media and the smartphone in the mid-to-late noughties — had been far more successful than ever anticipated. Brexit and Trump sounded the alarm: trust in Western institutions was in tatters. With the help of independent journalism, the masses had started forming their own views away from the ubiquitous narratives of the legacy press and the bureaucracy.
In short, the misinformation industrial complex was a belated reactionary movement of the elites aimed at suppressing populist common sense.
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/02/suppressing-populist-common-sense.html
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