So if politics is being infiltrated by other agents right now — disinformation and conspiracy theories, to name just two — can the tools of the advertising trade come to the rescue? And the ironic thing is that ‘fake news’ was created in order to spread disinformation,” O’Reilly said. Frankly, too many people believe advertising, like politics or the media, is disinformation itself. (Full disclosure: I wrote a whole book about a decade ago that dealt with this intersection of marketing and politics.) Blais, for his part, liked CNN’s own ad campaign against disinformation — the “facts first” series of spots aired in 2018.

Source: CBC News July 24, 2022 12:04 UTC