The blackout, the best opportunity for deception, misinformation and lies
The murder of a child in Mocejón was the fault of the migrants, in the parking lot of Bonaire there were a thousand dead and, according to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, a Russian cyber attack was responsible for a blackout that ravaged not only the Iberian Peninsula but also to the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Germany and even Finland. If this were a contest, the question would be: which of the above options is correct? I already tell him: none. The child’s murderer in Mocejón was Spanish, a neighbor of the town; In Bonaire’s parking lot there was not a single deceased person; And neither von der Leyen said anything from a cyber attack nor the blackout reached beyond some villages in southern France, in addition, of course, of Spain and Portugal. Everything is a lie. And yet, misinformation propagators care very little. Everything that is now explained about the causes of the blackout will be, as said the leader of the ultra -right Santiago Abascal, “lie”. Only they know the truth and it is the one who has dedicated themselves to manufacturing without rest during the first hours of the crisis. It is the same abascal that a month ago said that, “21 years later” of the 11M attacks, he still wants to “know the whole truth.”
If any crisis situation is the perfect context for the proliferation of misinformation, a scenario of energy blackout and in communications it is, more favorable for the reproduction of biased or false information. The misinformation feeds on the shock, and there is no greater shock than to be isolated, as happened on Monday. This, added to algorithms that seek to feed extremism, generates a great environment for deception. A hoax, by the way, whose objective goes beyond lies; A hoax that seeks to destabilize, generate the “chaos” that some predicted with greed. Even King Felipe VI explained it to those who protested in Valencia for the management of the Dana. “There is a lot of informative poisoning and many people interested in this. For what? To be chaos”said.
