<story><title>In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky</title><url>https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/in-india-what-we-are-seeing-is-the-symptoms-of-fascism-noam-chomsky</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtmt</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; NC: One thing that’s happened is the press has been pretty much muzzled. They are very uncritical.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a big issue with mass media in India that many don’t realize or want to realize. Between — a) most of the mainstream media houses (except a few) not asking tough questions (but supporting the government for everything), b) the Supreme Court ignoring important cases and not hearing them for years and c) the amount of fake news spread through WhatsApp — the liberal forums in India are filled with stories of how people are losing relationships or finding it difficult to digest the fact that their loved ones are close minded bigots.&lt;p&gt;Twitter has become a cesspool of bots, political party “IT Cells” and people copy pasting the same messages and hashtags, while WhatsApp has become the main source of truth (actually falsehood) for most people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_jal</author><text>I am beginning to think that fascism is mostly a runaway media effect. 100 years ago it was the beginnings of mass-media being understood and incorporated into politics; now it is the internet.&lt;p&gt;It seems like something akin to witchcraft crazes on a truly horrifying scale.</text></comment>
<story><title>In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky</title><url>https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/in-india-what-we-are-seeing-is-the-symptoms-of-fascism-noam-chomsky</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtmt</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; NC: One thing that’s happened is the press has been pretty much muzzled. They are very uncritical.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a big issue with mass media in India that many don’t realize or want to realize. Between — a) most of the mainstream media houses (except a few) not asking tough questions (but supporting the government for everything), b) the Supreme Court ignoring important cases and not hearing them for years and c) the amount of fake news spread through WhatsApp — the liberal forums in India are filled with stories of how people are losing relationships or finding it difficult to digest the fact that their loved ones are close minded bigots.&lt;p&gt;Twitter has become a cesspool of bots, political party “IT Cells” and people copy pasting the same messages and hashtags, while WhatsApp has become the main source of truth (actually falsehood) for most people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>president</author><text>I guess you could say the same in the US. Actual facts and critical discourse have to be actively sought out by people who actually care about these things while the vast majority are swimming in a sea of mainstream media noise.</text></comment>