Mudassir Chapra

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Engineer, Entrepreneur, and aspiring writer. https://chapra.blog

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A screenshot of an image of a book, with following text: "tions of authority to define information. That culture, in turn, helps the spread of conspiracy theories. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that conspiracy theories spread in "informational cascades," where individuals in a tight group rely on the judgment of others to form opinions when they cannot seek out the information themselves!-easier to do in a hierarchical culture. As the information spreads, each successive individual knows more people that espouse the theory, so he accepts it as well. Sunstein and Vermeule also argue that conspiracy theories are particularly difficult to counter because of their "self-sealing qual-ity"; attempts to counter the theory are considered conspiracies themselves. A government attempt to directly counter these theories is likely to be unsuccessful for a variety of reasons: due to distrust of the state; because countering the theory publicly may lead to a"
Cover of Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Cover of Stephen King's Bag of Bones
Cover for the collected edition of the comic book Watchmen.
Cover of urdu short story collection "Manto Nama" (منٹو نامہ) The photo of the author Saadat Hassan Manto is in the center.
A cover of Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by constance garnet