Sunday, July 25, 2021

Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming. (Max Fisher for the NYT.)

 



The truth is out of vogue, it seems.

With factories producing streams

of falsehoods for a tidy sum,

and workers stir the vilest scum

to mold opinions that will cause

humanity to show its claws.

No one knows the final price

of this booming cyber-vice.

Men have eyes for only wealth,

and so they work in techno-stealth

to rain deceit upon the globe

like acid precip's deadly robe.

Yet truth cannot be hid for long;

it sings an everlasting song

that rises over all the smut

of discord and foul scuttlebutt.

And those who deal in wholesale lies

will find they've won a tinsel prize.

Meanwhile guard the light within

and laugh at all the foolish din!

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