ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE – Stanislas Berton is an author and risk analyst. He comes to tell us about his last try The Man and the CityVolume III (published by Le Temps Retrouvé).
He discusses disinformation and the place of lies in politics, based on concrete examples: the Hunter Biden affair, the Twitter Files, the revelations of journalist Seymour Hersh on the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline or the war in Ukraine. .
According to him, intelligence agencies, politicians, the media and GAFAM (or Big Tech) are involved in this mechanism: by using fear and lies, the elites seek to paralyze thinking and neutralize critical thinking.
The latter would also succeed in fracturing society, in order to better defend their various interests: “Lying is the poison that divides”.
In this context, how can we trust the sources of information? Elements of explanations and answers in this interview.