The Systematic Poisoning of Information in Today’s Society

Excerpt from the Digital Navigator Series

A Commentary by M. Nuri Shakoor

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Welcome to the era of information — a time when truth should theoretically be at our fingertips, but instead, it feels more like swimming through a sea of toxic sludge. We are not merely drowning in data, but in deliberately distorted and weaponized information. The systematic poisoning of information in today’s society is not just an unfortunate side effect of the digital age; it’s a deliberate, calculated phenomenon designed to manipulate public perception. In this landscape, it’s hard not to wonder: Are we stumbling headfirst into an “Idiocracy,” where critical thinking has become an endangered species, and truth is whatever has the loudest microphone?