Misinformation Is A Weapon
The narrative is the battlefield.
In 1986, the Guardian newspaper released a video about perspective.
The first shot shows a skinhead running from a car as it pulls menacingly out of an alley.
The second shot is the same scene but from the reverse angle. So now you can see that the skinhead isn’t running away from the car but towards a respectable-looking businessman. The scene cuts just as the skinhead lunges at him.
And the third shot, a wide angle, shows the same scene again. But this time, you realise that the skinhead isn’t attacking the businessman, he’s trying to save him by pushing him clear of a previously unseen stack of falling bricks.
In a thirty-second clip, we learn that the car was just a car, that 1986 brick safety regulations weren’t up to scratch, and that we may be harbouring some unconscious bias against skinheads.
But if social media had existed back then, we’d have learned the truth: rogue vehicles are forcing ordinary citizens to run in fear, an epidemic of skinheads is mugging hard-working businessmen, and it’s time to get these murderous bricks out of our country before they destroy our way of life.
There’s an art to radicalising people on the internet.
