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From it’s enviable position as being the greatest publicly-accessible repository of all of human history and knowledge, the Internet, like anything else devised by man, is open not only to manipulation, but is one of the most successful tools ever devised to spread disinformation and propaganda on an unprecedented scale.
A single composite image (MEME), or any number of completely fictitious claims or accusations, can circumnavigate the planet within a matter of seconds and before very much time has passed, can become embedded in the human psyché to the point where not only ‘official’ historical records become redundant – but many years of painstaking and genuine research can, and will be dismissed by millions of people who will not investigate beyond whatever appears daily in their social media timelines.
What many people see in front of them every day on social media, or any number of ‘conspiracy’ websites, becomes accepted ‘truth’ to them, which is unfortunately, not only extremely lazy, but will not allow the natural human thirst for knowledge to progress beyond whatever is spoon-fed to them by anyone who has a desire, or an agenda to distort and twist the truth.
One of many such beliefs on the www, is one that has been doing the rounds on a number of ‘Conspiracy’ and ‘Truther’ forums and websites for a few years now, and one that besides being completely ridiculous to anybody who can perform even the most basic Internet search, is one of many that the Outlaw will attempt to show are nothing more than a complete pile of excrement.
Digitally-manipulated and cleverly worded maybe, but excrement nonetheless.
I am referring in this instance to an image, and one of many that have done the rounds over the years, that claims that Angela Dorothea Merkel (Nee Kasner), is in fact the daughter (or a close blood relative) of none other than Adolf Hitler, due to some vague facial resemblance.
A single composite image (MEME), or any number of completely fictitious claims or accusations, can circumnavigate the planet within a matter of seconds and before very much time has passed, can become embedded in the human psyché to the point where not only ‘official’ historical records become redundant – but many years of painstaking and genuine research can, and will be dismissed by millions of people who will not investigate beyond whatever appears daily in their social media timelines.
What many people see in front of them every day on social media, or any number of ‘conspiracy’ websites, becomes accepted ‘truth’ to them, which is unfortunately, not only extremely lazy, but will not allow the natural human thirst for knowledge to progress beyond whatever is spoon-fed to them by anyone who has a desire, or an agenda to distort and twist the truth.
One of many such beliefs on the www, is one that has been doing the rounds on a number of ‘Conspiracy’ and ‘Truther’ forums and websites for a few years now, and one that besides being completely ridiculous to anybody who can perform even the most basic Internet search, is one of many that the Outlaw will attempt to show are nothing more than a complete pile of excrement.
Digitally-manipulated and cleverly worded maybe, but excrement nonetheless.
I am referring in this instance to an image, and one of many that have done the rounds over the years, that claims that Angela Dorothea Merkel (Nee Kasner), is in fact the daughter (or a close blood relative) of none other than Adolf Hitler, due to some vague facial resemblance.
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‘Merkel must go’: Thousands of anti-migrant demonstrators protest pro-refugee policy in Berlin
Several thousand right-wing demonstrators marched through the
streets of Berlin to protest Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door
refugee policy on Saturday, chanting “Merkel must go” and “We are the
people.”
Nearly 3,000 protesters
carrying German flags and banners took part in a demonstration against
the German government’s migration policy. People gathered at
Washingtonplatz next to the capital’s main train station and then moved
in the direction of the Brandenburg Gate.