2024-11-21T09:44:51-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149999697/from-the-farnsworth-to-wikileaks-metahaven-on-transparency-propaganda-and-design Nicholas Korody 2017-03-30T06:15:00-04:00 >2017-03-30T12:10:29-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ur/ur0yoawxbv0aylbg.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Where are we? Somewhere in Eastern Ukraine, July 18, 2014&mdash;the day after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down, killing all 238 passengers as well as the fifteen crew members on board. Later, Russian media would suggest that the shooting was an attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin; that it was shot down by Ukrainians by mistake; that Ukrainian air traffic controllers had intentionally misdirected the plane over a war zone; that it was an attempt to smear the pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. Other stories spread: the plane was filled with 100 AIDS researchers or already-dead bodies and explosives. Eventually, the news cycle moved on.&nbsp;</p>