Episode 93 of the Cognitive Crucible podcast. This one on information operations and the law.
If interested, I’d pair this episode with this article on the same subject from earlier in the year. Both the podcast and the article discuss similar things (free speech and the ickiness of influence operations).
Tell me the below isn’t true.
Before, if you had somebody with an extremist view, they were on the soapbox in the town square, and everybody knew – ‘that’s just Joe, that’s who he is.’ But now, the Joe in each village can link up with all the other Joes in every other village and reinforce each others’ extremist ideas and thinking.
Todd Huntley, Ep 93, The Cognitive Crucible
It is one thing to have the weird guy in your family obsessed with conspiracy theories. It’s another to have that same guy link up with others across the country and across the world.
And even that seemed to be ok for a while, so long as it seemed mostly like a nerdy hobby.
But when it mutates into action, that’s when it becomes a problem.
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