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This Matters with Bill Britt

When the lie is the strategy

Propaganda succeeds not only by spreading falsehoods, but by exhausting our confidence that truth can ever be known or defended.

The most dangerous lie may be the one that convinces us to stop believing anything.

When every fact can be dismissed, every document called fake and every inconvenient truth buried beneath fresh accusations, accountability collapses.

Power no longer has to disprove reality. It only has to make reality too exhausting to defend.

In this edition of “This Matters,” Bill Britt examines how strategic deception replaces clarity with confusion and weakens the ability of ordinary citizens to hold power accountable.

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