Why age-old principles of resistance to manipulation don’t work against today’s style of unreality.
I'm going to let Ethan Zuckerman introduce this one.
"In this essay, author and Russia watcher Peter Pomerantsev argues that the “propaganda of unreality” is not a new phenomenon—it’s been part of the political landscape and process for decades. What’s new is that the principles of resistance to manipulation we’ve employed successfully in the past don’t actually work against today’s style of unreality, which he refers to as 'the futureless now.' But there is hope, Peter explains, and novel approaches we can take to address the propaganda of unreality and reinvigorate the democratic information space as we move further into the 21st century."
I ask you to read his last sentence again. The one that begins "But there is hope...".
Article: To Unreality—and Beyond