After weeks of an international public relations war involving misinformation, condemnations, ominous warnings, video hoaxes, nautical sabotage and more, Greece announced on Friday that is was prohibiting the boats from sailing.
Like the fight against spam, clickbait, and other undesirable content, the war against misinformation on platforms like Google and Facebook is a game of wack-a-mole.
The fog of war and misinformation often lays particularly thick over these areas.
Why is the response instead to wage an intentional or accidental war of misinformation and patient blaming?
When the DISCLOSE Act comes up for a vote in the Senate later this summer, McConnell's war of misinformation should be summarily disregarded and senators should vote on the merits of the legislation, which is fully in line with Supreme Court precedent and the First Amendment.
Mr. Denhardt also presents the propaganda war, with the Nazi misinformation machine grinding out stories of victories until mentions of the Stalingrad siege stopped; the German people could no longer be browbeaten into swallowing the lies.
Basically, he got us into a war with a heap of misinformation".
The filmmaker said recently that he wanted to speak directly to Mr. Assad because "misinformation and psychological warfare make up a large part of the Syrian civil war".
Some may say that America rode into the war on terror on a wave of misinformation from the Bush administration, but no element played a more crucial role in perpetuating the war than a constant reminder from the Bush administration that we, as Americans, have a duty to "support our troops".
After all, we have nearly 35 years of entrenched misinformation, distrust, and virtual cold war.
