“So the question is, what will bind us to reality? If the internet has changed how we talk to each other, how we process events, then if anything, it’s made real truth harder to discern. The higher purpose of propaganda, of misinformation, of disinformation, isn’t just to create an alternate truth; it’s to discredit the notion of truth as a concept. But you don’t have to aim for the erasure of truth to do so, either. If we can all create our own conspiracy theories, whether out of fun or out of malice, how does reality maintain its signal? What happens when institutional trust is further degraded, and when honest media shrinks further in the age of memes?”