What Ginni Thomas and Vladimir Putin have in common
You know what Ginni Thomas and Vladimir Putin have in common? They are both sealed inside information bubbles of their own making, to disastrous ends.
Let's start with Putin. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has gone badly, but why? Brian Klaas, a politics professor at University College London, says Putin blundered into the war because he didn't have anyone around to tell him what he believed — that Ukrainians don't really have their own national identity, that the invasion would be a cakewalk — might not actually be true. Klaas calls this the "dictator trap."
"It's what happens when authoritarian leaders make catastrophic short-term errors because they start to believe in the fake realities they've constructed around themselves," Klaas said this week in an interview with Vox.
Maybe that sounds familiar. Echo chambers don't just happen to dictators. Nowadays, thanks to social media and tailored TV channels, anyone can enjoy their own fake reality.
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