If you are a "tech guru" take your skills to Russia...

Editor's note: ...but not with the intent of locking people up in your digital data freak show of control. The Gulag archipelago has migrated west but now it has morphed into the digital surveillance state. People are starting to recognize what is being built in the west and they are opting out in increasing numbers. Not only "fact check" the technofascists in the west but censor them with extreme prejudice. The British are really pissed too about what Elon Musk's father said about Russia. Too bad. Tech geeks who aren't full blown narcissistic child molesting psychotics here is your invitation by Russia: Resolving issues of citizenship.
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How to fact-check techno-feudalism?

By Pepe Escobar | June 10, 2025

There are auspicious signs on the other side of dystopia. And right here in Russia.

The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across the whole Global South.

Pride of place was taken by a new ambitious association, the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN). The last session of the forum was focused essentially on how to fight all the toxic declinations imposed by the post-truth anti-cultural ambiance – as in fact-checking an avalanche of fake news coming in most cases from states and official institutions.

Guest of honor was superstar Russian Foreign Minister spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, relaxed, in great spirits, who went full Deng Xiaoping by urging everyone to "fight for the truth and seek out the facts".

By a twist of fate, the timeline left me with only two minutes to somehow wrap up our quite enlightening discussion. So I went hardcore and quoted Nietzsche: "There are no facts, only interpretations". Later on, I was surprised at how that had struck a nerve especially among African delegates.

The key point is that in the artificially fabricated post-truth environment, not only facts are only facts if we say so; most of all, only one interpretation is allowed – be it from the Empire of Chaos, whoever may be in power, or from a Kafkaesque mechanism such as the European Union (EU)/European Commission (EC).

If you deviate from the official interpretation, they will come after you. That has led, for instance, in Europe, to journalists/EU citizens being prevented even from traveling to their own nation-states, and having their accounts frozen, or EU citizens being prevented from covering a supposedly democratic election (in Romania), and immediately deported (outside of the EU).

A startling essay on Nietzsche amplifies the diagnostic of Europe’s current cultural suicide. Nietzsche was an "untimely" outsider, a steppenwolf, pledging allegiance to no one and nothing, silently grappling with “the flat exhaustion of bourgeois modernity”, and searching, in vain, for "silhouettes among shadows".

Nietzsche, in the late 19th century, was already a symbol of Resistance. Resistance as we see it today – from the Axis of Resistance in West Asia to Orthodox Christian military batallions fighting for the freedom of Novorossiya. No ceremony ever greeted Nitzsche: he was always alone. He shattered illusion after illusion as his solitude "became liturgy" and "his body turned into protest." He impersonated "the ghost of nobility". A species in extinction – indeed.

Tech visionaries want it all

That crystal clear Nietzsche intuition – arguably the best definition of truth in the history of philosophy – may be our guide in the labyrinth of post-truth where, to quote post-modernist masterpiece Twin Peaks, "the owls are not what they seem".

Errol Musk, Elon's father, showed up early this week in Moscow for the Future 2050 forum. Daddy Musk effusively showered praise on Russia as Ancient Rome 2.0 and Moscow itself as the "capital of the world". Quite on point – in both cases.

Please go to the Strategic Culture Foundation to continue reading.

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