.... a larger force is at work within the rise of #fact-checking and other counter-disinformation efforts. That force is our society’s current arrangement of appearances, the totality of social relations mediated by images, or #spectacle. Spectacle, as elucidated in Debord’s The #Society of the Spectacle, is a concept that can help us to understand seemingly unconnected, yet deeply intertwined phenomena that have come to fruition as the economy has subjugated society to its needs (as opposed to the other way around), and thus recover our ability to experience life directly.
[Source[(https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/reality-based-people-can-fact-check-the-fact-checkers.html#more)
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