Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics | Politics

TRuth, the progressive California politician Hiram Johnson once said, is the first wounded of the war. In 1918, he referred to the First World War and caused millions of people wounded at that time.

More than a century, the truth was caught on cross -fire as the wounded of the 21st century cultural wars.

Donald Trump is the high priest of disinformation, the leader of the reform, Nigel Farage, shows symptoms of being a willing student if there is something that needs to be passed in England this week.

Farage proposed to send prisoners to abroad, including El Salvador, which Trump administration sent hundreds of exiles and proposed to send US citizens. In addition, a comprehensive police recruitment driving and prison construction program while cutting health and training expenditures proposed.

Trump’s policies were not noticed in the United States. And for those who examine the President of the President’s Modus Operandi, there is a special tactic that the British people need to be prepared: lies and false expressions that often overwhelmed their rivals.

They say that Trump experience contains sober lessons for Farage’s critics.

The US-Democracy-pro-democracy campaigns say that Trump has become more difficult for Factcheck since the first period of Trump, thanks to a combination of reluctance to continue to intimidate among some more loose social media content control and some media owners.

Trump’s Washington Post, who followed more than 30,000 lies or misleading expressions during his presidency, was reported to be vetoed by a billionaire Jeff Bezos, a democratic candidate for the president, a democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Omar Nounsdin, a senior vice president of Common, a non -Partisan group, said, “This has become more difficult because there is less commitment than those in the best position to do realism.” “Looking for the truth here comes with costs and risks.”

Complex issues are a loss of confidence in institutions that rely on social media platforms for many consumer news.

“Even the best fartchecking can be poor, because we are facing not only a information crisis here, but also a confidence crisis in the American Information Ecosystem,” Nouldin said.

The media observers say that the political environment is so deeply polarized that the truth says that the wrongly placed beliefs may have more established effects.

Julie Millocan, Vice President of Media Matters for America, a media keeper, said, “We conclude that Factchecking is not as effective as it wants,” he said.

“One reason for this is the spread of information and disinformation faster than you can control.

“But another thing is the backfire of Factchecking.

A 2022 Protection Report from Democracy He argues that this is the result of a deliberate strategy of authoritarian regimes.

In the report, “disinformation is spreading through coordinated networks, channels and ecosystems, including politically aligned or state -of -the -government media,” he said. “The aim is not always to sell a lie, but instead of weakening the idea that anything is true.”

Further complexity in the United States is the appointment of Trump to key state institutions that traditionally serve as accurate and reliable data sources for Factheckers.

An example is Robert F Kennedy JR, who dealt with anti -vaccine theories. When choosing Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, responsible for the country’s wide health bureaucracy.

“Factchecking was not working very well in the first place, but now you can’t even access the facts you need to be able to do as before,” he said.

The appearance looks gloomy, but the campaignists say it doesn’t make problems insurmountable.

An answer is to invest in independent, non -partisan research. The most important aim is to increase media literacy among young people who receive news from platforms that may be subject to disinformation tools such as AI-Manipulated videos from platforms such as Tiktok. The aim is to teach consumers how to detect doctor shooting.

Millican, “Media literacy is extremely important and is something to invest at a young age,” he said.

Another solution is the development of “pre -buttal” strategies to instill the people against disinformation, in fact reveals the truth.

The media issues for the United States and the common reason used this approach in last year’s presidential elections by producing videos designed to resist the expected false narratives surrounding voting procedures in certain areas.

It is also important that Shahalini Agarwal’s Special Advisor to Democracy, the demonization of vulnerable groups such as immigrants called as soon as it took place, he said.

Even if Trump concentrates his attack on journalists as “fake news ve and tries to exclude some established sales points from the press briefings, an important role is played by the media.

“There is really important when there are opportunities for one -on -one briefing and there are more than one journalist, Agar said Agarwal. “Some of this is a collective sense of action. Most of the time, who does not give a simple answer or does not give a wrong answer, and then tries to continue – it is seen when other journalists jump and say: ‘Wait. What did the other reporter ask?’ ‘

Millocan has two advice to arms against future authoritarian attacks for England and other European countries: protecting the legislation and illegal content designed to combat the disinformation and illegal content represented by the online security law in Britain and the EU digital security law.

“The first thing to take place in these authoritarian inheritances is that they will try to silence and take over the media and information view,” he said. “In platforms, hate speech or misinformation efforts will be seen as equivalent to the suppression of conservative thought or free speech.

“I cannot emphasize enough emphasis on the pollution of your information ecosystem as much as possible. One of the first things they will do is to lower the obstacles he can do.”