Reality Czar suggested to address extremism
In a lengthy report, the New York Times is fixated on addressing the domestic threat from extremism and its dire consequences. "To fix our national reality crisis, and possibly even de-radicalize some of those who have been lured into extremist groups and hold conspiracy theory ideology, it would be necessary to address the underlying problems that drove them there in the first place."
The report asks how Biden could unite a country in which millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality? Unfortunately, the report is then fixated in addressing extremism on the right. Not one drop of ink on extremism on the left and its adverse impact on the country – no mention of Antifa, BLM, deaths, property destruction from continuing riots, etc.
Another example of biased mainstream media where only a dissenting public need a reality check, deprogramming, and their speech silenced. Yeah, this should help bring us altogether.
How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/t...formation.html
We have also seen that if left unchecked, networked conspiracy theories and online disinformation campaigns can lead to offline violence, as they did during last month’s deadly Capitol riot.
The report author writes: “I spent the past several years reporting on our national reality crisis, and I worry that unless the Biden administration treats conspiracy theories and disinformation as the urgent threats they are, our parallel universes will only drift further apart, and the potential for violent unrest and civic dysfunction will only grow.
So I called a number of experts and asked what the Biden administration could do to help fix our truth-challenged information ecosystem, or at least prevent it from getting worse. Here’s what they told me.
We need to understand the scope of the problem.
A ‘truth’ commission could be created to investigate the planning and execution of the Capitol siege on Jan. 6 - with deep knowledge of the many “networked factions” that coordinated and carried out the riot, including white supremacist groups and far-right militias.
Recommends Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a “reality czar.”
After all, many people are drawn to extremist groups like the Proud Boys and conspiracy theories like QAnon not because they’re convinced by the facts, but because the beliefs give them a sense of community or purpose, or fills a void in their lives.