In Episode 21 [11] of the CounterVortex podcast [12], Bill Weinberg rants in anguish about how he has been forced by market and technological forces beyond his control into the same matrix of digital media that is fast eroding the very concept of truth and lubricating the consolidation of a fascist order in the United States and the world. In the aftermath of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre [13], Weinberg documents Trump's complicity and virtual green-lighting of the attack, and calls out his rote condemnation as rank hypocrisy. From the wave of hate [14] unleashed immediately upon his inauguration through the "false flag [15]" theory he floated about the MAGA-bomber, Trump has played to anti-Semitism [16] in barely veiled terms. The doublethink that now lets him get away with his blatantly disingenuous disavowal of the massacre is related to the post-truth environment [17] fundamentally inherent to digital media. Listen on SoundCloud [11], [18] and support our podcast via Patreon [19].
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