We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false
-Former CIA Director William J. Casey
This has always been the goal of the (dis)information agencies.
They have actually succeeded with a large portion of the American public who, instead of turning to critical thinking and critical reading skills, have just decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater and instead trust random asshats on the internet.
Like, I get it, you can’t trust everything you read from mainstream media, who have billionaire owners who make sure their personal biases show in news coverage and ideas they don’t like are downplayed. That doesn’t mean the most effective solution is to stop listening to them entirely and start listening to entirely random sources with no background. However, that’s the solution many, many Americans have chosen to go with, and that’s effectively what the CIA has been hoping for. They want to be the final arbiters of what is considered “truth” because they don’t want people questioning what they do.