There have been two dominant narratives about the rise of misinformation and conspiracy theories in American public life. What we can, without prejudice, call the establishment narrative put forward by dominant foundations, government agencies, NGOs, the mainstream press, the RAND corporation holds that the misinformation age was launched by the Internet boom, the loss of media gatekeepers, new alternative sources of sensational information that cater to niche audiences, and social media.
Much attention has been paid to Airman Jack Teixeira’s motives in allegedly leaking classified information on the gaming site Discord. But are there solutions that might have blocked his actions in the first place?
A more “sensible” classification of US government records as secret or top secret is being pushed for to rule out a repetition of embarrassments like the recent so-called Pentagon Leaks .