https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/17/web-blade-runner-lies-misinformation-internet 

As decades of academic communications research have shown, people tend to adopt opinions they think are common, what the internet researcher Samuel Woolley calls “manufacturing consensus”. Faking social media accounts leads not just to individual users being deceived, but to a society that loses touch with what it really thinks, where what it “really thinks” can be reprogrammed.

In a discourse that can be so easily distorted, it is tempting to give up on any hopes for a democratic public sphere, where ideas and evidence are weighed and debated, and decided on by real citizens, and where one person has one voice. This is a challenge to the primacy of democracy as a model for governance. The message of today’s digitally driven dictatorships, from China to Saudi Arabia, is that democracy cannot cope with the online dimension, and in the confusion it’s better to surrender freedom of choice to centralised powers that use our data to make decisions for us.

Like any dodgy salesman, they promise you tantalising dreams of unverifiable victories. At the right price they claim to have the “magic sauce” to win you elections, manipulate the behaviour of your enemies, bankrupt your rivals’ business.

“Team Jorge”, an Israeli online black ops unit uncovered by the Guardian and its partners in a stunning sting operation, is part of a whole scuzzy industry (“Team Jorge” deny responsibility).

Instead of the malign Blade Runner city, where all is owned by exploitative companies with an underbelly of online bandits, it would have the digital equivalent of public parks, libraries, town halls. But we are nowhere near it now.

So can we survive today? What can you do if you’re, for the sake of argument, an activist who wants to undermine mobilisation for Russia’s genocidal wars? Or you’re running a campaign to disrupt the far right in Europe? Or the narcos in Latin America? Will you wait for a new internet? We don’t have time. No, you will go to the dark alleys of our Blade Runner internet and seek out a Jorge.

Ravish Kumar Live debate // रवीश ने अंधभक्त को धो डाला // Ravish Kumar Atack On,Mod Bhakt, News 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQH89ArmkOE
Ravish Kumar asks us to be conscious consumers .  Dont clap hands when someone makes a point, even myself.. just think and do your own research as all this fake news is happening only because they think that you do not think... . no news is also fAKE NEWS...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqotTKHXGyY  Congress Leaders Pawan Khera & Supriya Shrinate Address Press Conference At AICC HQ Fakenews factory

An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published Wednesday. https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20230215-israeli-firm-boasted-of-meddling-in-more-than-30-elections-worldwide  It adds to a growing body of evidence that shadowy private firms across the world are profiting from invasive hacking tools and the power of social media platforms to manipulate public opinion.

The firm was dubbed "Team Jorge" by investigating journalists who posed as potential clients in order to gather information on its methods and capabilities.