Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.

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    we’re all losing the information war. the world hates truth and loves lies. we’re fucked. it’s all over but the shouting.

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      and the shouting means so little when your voice never hits the speakers. Black-box algorithms and big-tech social media platforms really snuck up on progressive politics.

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      I was going to say. Cimate, vaccines, thinking obvious assholes are in peoples best interest. Yeah I agree with yas.

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        yeah, i truly wish it weren’t so, and i hate being doomy negative. but i don’t see a way out of this. it’s not even like they will Darwin themselves out of the genepool, since their choices effect others, and they raise their kids with the same madness.