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Anonymous ID: 5e0e11 March 21, 2020, 2:26 p.m. No.8506318   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6331 >>6410

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>HBO Documentary 'After Truth'

https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/after-truth

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Truth%3A_Disinformation_and_the_Cost_of_Fake_News

 

After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News is a documentary film that debuted on the HBO network on March 21, 2020. It was directed by Andrew Rossi and executive produced by Brian Stelter.

 

The film surveys the effects of disinformation campaigns occurring on social media and the impacts of well known conspiracy theories from the Obama birther theories, to Seth Rich, to Pizzagate, as well as some of the major and minor personalities involved. The documentary shows that although the components of fake news are not new, it is enhanced by present-day information technology. The roots of fake news are distrust and exploitation. "Inevitably, [the film] confronts the question of what we should do about fake news."

 

Variety noted the film shows "dash-cam footage of Edgar Maddison Welch" as he drives from North Carolina to Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C. with intent to stop what he delusively believed to be a "child sex slave ring". The film shows the Pizzagate conspiracy growing on Reddit and 4 Chan and how it was also fomented by the Alt-right and Alex Jones.

Anonymous ID: 5e0e11 March 21, 2020, 2:32 p.m. No.8506410   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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https://variety.com/2020/tv/reviews/after-truth-disinformation-and-the-cost-of-fake-news-review-1203538222/

 

From the birther theory to Pizzagate, an unsettling documentary looks at how fake news has made disconnection from reality into the new normal.

 

In one of the most chilling sequences of “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News” (there’s plenty of competition), we see dash-cam footage of Edgar Maddison Welch, the assault-rifle-toting “avenger” at the center of the Pizzagate insanity, as he drives from Salisbury, N.C., to Washington, D.C., to put an end to what he thought was a child sex-slave ring being run out of a popular restaurant. Bearded and resolved, with hipster rings on his fingers and a wool cap pulled down to his eyebrows, the 28-year-old Welch, staring at the highway ahead, looks and sounds like a meaner version of Bradley Cooper in “A Star Is Born.” Which made me think: Wouldn’t it be riveting to see an actor like Cooper play a wing-nut like Welch? Not to caricature him, but to understand him.

 

It’s often alleged, by those on the right, that “elite” liberals rarely make an effort to understand the world from the point-of-view of those who love and support Donald Trump. I tend to agree: When it comes to something like Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory that erupted in the heart of Trump country (and that tens of thousands of people believed), we don’t delve deep enough into the mindset of those who’ll work themselves into a righteous froth over an “actual” (but, in fact, entirely delusional) news event. They’re disconnected from reality — and that, you could argue, is one of the key definitions of mental illness. But how did they get there?