What is Samizdat?

 It's originally a term invented in Russia (1940s), and it revolves around fake news created in the old Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries who were tightly controlled by the Soviets.  

So folks reached a level where the highly promoted news was viewed as fake, and they started to create real news-letters.  They'd be printed out.....quietly handed to friends, and passed on.  In simple terms....an underground network of publications not authorized by the state apparatus.

It eventually reached a stage where even music was considered 'too controlled' and samizdat editions of records were created (bootleg records so to speak).

Are we living in a samizdat era now?  I sat and pondered over this.  Up until the 1990s....I would have said no.  In the past twenty years?  You have to assemble each story you read.....take the red-marker, and then determine the amount of facts, speculation or BS.

So out of this decline in news story facts....yes, we've had a US effort to create a samizdat 'wave'.  For a while....Fox News served that role.  Lately, Newsmax and OANN fit the samizdat model.

Twitter and Facebook?  They both try to tightly control the news pattern and factual analysis.  But in doing so....they open the door for samizdat type creations to occur.  

Samizdat likely to be involved in the 2022/2024 elections?  More than likely.

What you really need to take out of this 'creation'?  Well....once you reach a level where trust is gone with news or state (enforced) facts....there's not much of a reason to go back or accepting the fake news.  You can call it a decline of the empire....but the decline started with the fake/biased news in the first place.