'Fake news' inquiry launched

[lardy]

Politics or geopolitics is about overlapping factions, each with their own ideologies and interests, all of which are continually shifting and changing, and all of which are constituted of individual people with their own needs, desires, perversions, secrets and personal relationships.

I'm lucky enough to have worked in Plaid Cymru HQ -Ty Gwynfor - for the final year of Plaid's coalition government with Labour so I've seen first hand how quickly factions can form and dissolve.

The owners (and editor) of the Daily Mail have overlapping interests with members of various factions - for example certain wealthy UK people, prominent members of the Conservatives and UKIP, media like Breitbart.

Wikipedia, on the other hand, has overlapping interests with people like the Clintons and organisations like Facebook.

Understanding this is not very complicated but the relationships are infinitely complex.

I agree that the relationships are very complex. This is why 'so-and-so and some others are all together on one side' is too simplistic and not accurate. Just to pick newspapers as an example, we've seen some suddenly jump ship many times.

[Wales-Bales]

I agree that the relationships are very complex. This is why 'so-and-so and some others are all together on one side' is too simplistic and not accurate. Just to pick newspapers as an example, we've seen some suddenly jump ship many times.

Most groups and indiduals have now stepped out from the shadows, so it's fairly trivial to see who is who. A few double agents are still in place acting as agent provocateurs, but what we are now witnessing is a full-on information war, and the stakes are very high indeed. I also think it's fair to say that so far we have only witnessed the opening skirmishes, with both sides keeping their heavy artillery in reserve.