Mr. Siegel discusses disinformation and the ‘whole of society’ approach the State Department took to combat President Donald Trump’s emergence. The hoax of the century is that there exists a great threat of disinformation that is “so grave that it justifies a state of emergency in which unelected regulators and national security officials can violate the Constitution to protect individual American citizens,” …Jacob Siegel, a senior editor at Tablet magazine, published “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century: Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation,” …“In wartime, we expect to see industries nationalized,” he said. “We’re seeing effectively the same thing, except that the war itself is a ruse, essentially. Rather than nationalizing physical production, what’s being nationalized is social media, opinion production, perception production.”
