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Written by Ian Brown :verified: on 2025-01-26 at 13:41

Traditional media has adopted the term "flooding the zone" to describe many of the actions taken by the executive branch in the last week.

Trump and his enablers understand and take advantage of Brandolini’s Law:

"The bullshit asimmetry[sic]: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

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Written by Ian Brown :verified: on 2025-01-26 at 13:47

Alberto Brandolini shared his now-famous (and perhaps, in hindsight, obvious) insight into how information and misinformation operate on the internet in, ironically, a Tweet:

https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521

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