Editing Managed Reality TM (section)

== Definition ==

'''Managed Reality™''' describes a form of institutionalized narrative control, wherein powerful institutions and the [[Extractive Elite|kleptocratic elites]] within them seek to actively shape, curate, manipulate, constrain, protect, and enforce an official, consensus version of events, knowledge, scientific claims, political legitimacy, social norms, and their interpretation across media, academia, government, and technology platforms (a form of [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]), often leading to the suppression, alteration, or "[[Prebunked Malinformation|prebunking]]" of information to maintain a specific societal or political status quo. This [[Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue|enforcement]] often involves suppressing dissent, obscuring contradictory evidence, [[Straw-checking]], delegitimizing heterodox perspectives, [[Strategic Silence]], [[Fact Burning]], [[Image Cheapening]], [[Institutional Gaslighting]], [[Decredential|Decredentialling]], and [[Digital Wetwork]], even when those perspectives are held by experts or supported by empirical claims. The term is pejorative, and is intended to criticize the coordinated suppression of heterodox viewpoints, particularly those that challenge institutional authority or dominant narratives.