How Do We Counter Health Care Disinformation Under a Disinformer-in-Chief?

DiscussionAn international organization, Cambridge Analytica/ SCL based in the UK, led by Trump confidantes including his last campaign leader and former White House strategic adviser Steve Bannon, and major Republican donors and hedge fund magnates Robert and Rebekah Mercer, worked with the Trump 2016 campaign, particularly coordinating with digital coordinator Brad Parscale.  Cambridge Analytica/ SCL leveraged Facebook private data on millions of people, obtained from most without their specific permission, to create a " psyops " political disinformation campaign featuring emotional appeals to voters ' internal psychology, coupled with a variety of other tactics.  The campaign used foreign workers within the US, and apparently coordinated with political action committees, possibly violating US law.  The appropriation of private Facebook data possibly violated UK law.  The Cambridge Analytica/ SCL CEO also boasted that the organization was capable of various dirty tricks, including several species of extortion.It is unclear to what extent, if any, this disinformation campaign helped Mr Trump to win the presidency.  But clearly we now have a president whose campaign was apparently happy to employ disinformation on a grand scale, likely violating US and UK laws in the process, to win election.We have long advocated better awareness of insidious disinformation campaigns in health care, which we previously separated into stealth systematicmarketing,lobby...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: crime disinformation Donald Trump extortion propaganda stealth health policy advocacy stealth lobbying stealth marketing Source Type: blogs