SCROLLING down my Facebook timeline, I often come across stories that are meant to convince you of something. Diets, products, events, pandemics, cures, bitcoin and politics are all topics you can come across in a day’s scroll on social media.
For example, we have been inundated with tales and narratives during these days of Covid-19 and the introduction of fifth generation technology, often trying to convince one of some sort of theory or conspiracy.
My grandparents’ generation used to call this propaganda. Yet today it is a bit more subtle. This promotion of certain information does not come through government spin doctors, as propaganda would have traditionally, but through media, and especially social media.
At the same time, it would not be wrong to suggest that 21st century wars, in…