There was a small social experiment wherein a message was made to travel amongst a small group of people. That is a message was conveyed from a source through a finite number of mediators before it reaches to the destination. The outcome was astonishing that source message was completely altered by mediators in between before it reached the destination.
The latest level of distortion was to clip the information into pieces and pick that cropped clip which conveys completely different meaning to be precise a opposite meaning when compared to original block of information. This unethical cropped information in made to cater to popularization of the propaganda.It is difficult to reign in on these manipulations through any law as they are logically correct but ethically debatable and there is no rule that can punish unethical practices especially when these manipulations are incentivized by those people decorating highest offices in any organization.
Worst thing is to give wings to these manipulations by the general state actors knowing the harmfulness of such synthetic modifications. And this practice has a universal backing and also a part of the strategic decision making by the authoritarians. Only thing those who are against such practices can do is to withdraw from the loop that encourages the manipulations.
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