[spamizbad]

Counter-intuitive but…

You stop consuming it. You actually do not need to be informed on every topic at every moment. There are people who do this professionally - it’s a full time job and even they get misinformed.

You cannot voraciously consume this stuff while also being immune to propaganda. You’re actually more vulnerable to it the more you consume. Ignorance in this case can actually work in your favor.

[datavirtue]

A good example of this is how Putin floated a statement that was meant to seem a threat toward nuclear war. He did that to distract everyone from talking about how he was losing the war. It worked perfectly.

[krapp]

> He did that to distract everyone from talking about how he was losing the war. It worked perfectly.

Did it? Or did people just talk about both?