Top IPSO of the week (September 8–14, 2025): digital titushki attack Poland; The NYT on the “nuclear disaster” in Kharkiv; what has 250 years done to the US?
Articles | | 530 | Author: Olena Zelenina, Oleksandr Sydorenko (cartoon)
Cartoon by Oleksandr Sydorenko.
Is it possible to manage risks? In the event of imminent danger, you can take a risk and react. And those who have been lucky enough to react successfully at least once think that they were in control of the situation. Although in reality, they were being controlled.
How can we learn to manage uncertainty? In our information age, uncertainty has grown so catastrophically that intelligent, educated people find themselves confused by it.
Last week gave your reviewer plenty of reasons to reflect on how fear of uncertainty allows war criminals and populist politicians to manipulate our opinions.
Never before has so much disinformation been unleashed on the Polish public as this week! And the flood of disinformation fell on the heads of Poles almost simultaneously (!) with an unprecedented attack by Russian drones on Poland.
As the head of Nazi propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, liked to say, a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.
And a person who doubts involuntarily thinks: I'd better be “with everyone” because I'm afraid of the unbearable uncertainty...
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