Фейки или средства оправданы целью
Общие современные информационные реалии, такие как фейковые новости, мисинформация, дезинформация и пропаганда, бросают вызов обществу и поднимают вопросы о целостности СМИ и социальной стабильности. Политики, политизированный террор и экстремистские движения, крайне правые группы и хакерские атаки «неизвестных лиц» ставят в тупик общественно-политическое существование.
Fakes or means justify the ends
Common contemporary informational realities such as fake news, misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda challenge societies and raise questions of media integrity and social stability. Politicians, politicised terror and extremist movements, far right groups, and ‘unknown entity’ hacking attacks perplex sociopolitical existence.
Epistemic polarisation, conspiracies, and the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
The 2021 storming of the United States Capitol continued the action of pro-Trump national collective of conspiracy theory, religio-political ideology driven individuals concerned with the current world order appealing to QAnon supporters, and concerns, imagination, and fears of the broader public. The epistemology of the QAnon membership requires to explore the truth and belief and the consequential knowledge informing the truth and reality paradigm of the insurrectionists.
American citizen, national identity, the leftists and far-right divide
In May of 2020, the streets across North America and Europe erupted with protests condoning police brutality and embedded racism at the societal core. Triggered by death of George Floyd inflicted by law enforcement during an arrest undertaken in Minneapolis on the grounds of a suspected counterfeit bill distribution and continuously reignited by the casualties that followed within the Black American population and across other communities, resulting in not only a societally complex situation, but considerable reciprocal radicalisation. Along with the peaceful protests, solidarity, and creative flares America seen the efforts of the leftists and the far-right to propel their agendas with vandalism, particular to the shared grievances speeches, and violence.