"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist."

Hannah Arendt

The Origins Of Totalitarianism

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It's Huxley, not Orwell

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”

I am a criminal

• About my removal from Stoa because of an April Fool's joke until my account was deleted

Rabbit Hole Effect: algorithms designed to keep the user engaged as long as possible

References

• Podcast: Rabbit Hole - What is the internet doing to us?

Disinformation and the far-right

References

• Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X (13 Feb 2025)
• X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity (12 Feb 2025)

January 6, 2021 United States Capitol Attack

"Voter Fraud" on Twitter

The 200 accounts shown above are a sample of a network on Twitter talking about Voter Fraud and amplifying false and/or misleading narratives about election integrity and the democratic process. We discovered that this group of 200 accounts either generated or were mentioned in over 140 million tweets over the last year. As you will see below, this network is not only growing at an accelerating rate but also coordinating with effective tactics that appear to bypass many of the detection methods of existing disinformation research.

https://voterfraud.iwr.ai/voterfraud

January 8, 2023 Brasília Attacks

References

•  The Guardian: WhatsApp fake news during Brazil election ‘favoured Bolsonaro’

• Hate Cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_cabinet

Why staying on X is complete non-sense

• Myth of Necessary Opposition
  • Direct counter-speech on social media platforms does not effectively combat disinformation
  • Algorithms favor polarizing content, amplifying disinformation despite opposition
  • Staying paradoxically contribute to the further dissemination of disinformation

References

• Why the argument that you have to stay on social networks to provide opposition is complete nonsense, by Mike Kuketz
• „Was nützt den Menschen, was zaubert das Gute aus uns raus?“, interview with Leena Simon