Back when I was a full-time debunker, I would have meetings with Very Important People about how to defeat fake news. What tools would we use? Apps? Anti-disinfo schools?? Warning labels?? I would say "support antiracism and antimisogyny initiatives" and watch the light go out of their eyes
Brooke
Back in October 2023, I tried making this very same point internally at a certain organization where I used to work… Suffice it to say, they weren’t having it 🤬
Stephen C. Rea
"If these hatreds rise together, feeding on conspiracy theories and the politics of fear, they cannot be defeated apart," writes @open-society.bsky.social's @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social in a must-read op-ed on how anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises that must be confronted together.
www.theguardian.com
The two hatreds have rarely been seen as related dangers. But they overlap even as Muslim and Jewish communities are pitted against each other
