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Guy Debord's Warning of "The Role of the Expert": A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking

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Date Written:  03/01/2023
Year Published:  2023  
Resource Type:  Article

Why are we bombarded by fact-checks and 'anti-disinformation' efforts in our timeline scrolls?

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Why are we bombarded by fact-checks and 'anti-disinformation' efforts in our timeline scrolls? When one reads news, further, they often find that 'experts' are common sources behind whatever claim media professionals make, no matter how outlandish or disconnected from reality such claims may be. Through his concept and exploration of spectacle, a totalizing, negating force over our lives that results in unlife, French Philosopher Guy Debord's famous Society of the Spectacle (1967) and his follow-up booklet, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988), provide insights to these and other interconnected phenomena. When it comes to 'fact-checks' and 'experts', Debord is clear: in a society subjugated by the economy, where "everything that was once directly lived has faded into representation," such professionals do not exist to provide us the truth -- they exist to serve the state and media through lies and distortions spun into what appears as true. If the 'experts' lose influence, it will be because the public has learned and can articulate that their job is to systematically lie.

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