Assange went on to say that the manipulative attempts of world power structures (Facebook and Google) to regain control of discourse in the information age has been “operating at a scale, speed, and increasingly at a subtlety, that appears likely to eclipse human counter-measures.”
What this means is that using increasingly more advanced forms of artificial intelligence, power structures are becoming more and more capable of controlling the ideas and information that people are able to access and share with one another, hide information which goes against the interests of those power structures and elevate narratives which support those interests, all of course while maintaining the illusion of freedom and lively debate.
People will be living in a world that they think they understand and know about, but they’ll unknowingly be viewing only establishment-approved information.
