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Social media fact-checking, brought to you by the Deep State
By Daniel Espinoza Source: Off-Guardian Almost four years of mainstream media hype about “fake news” and “Russian meddling” propaganda has brought to the world exactly what they were intended to bring: an effective mechanism for internet and social media censorship. In the center of this move … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Alternative news, Atlantic Council, censorship, CIA, Clayton R. Koppes, corporate media, Facebook, Fake News, Google, Hollywood Goes to War, independent media, Internet, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, NED, Office of War Information, propaganda, Russia-gate, Social Media, the Poynter Institute
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Elite television news rescued by COVID
By Jon Rappoport Source: NoMoreFakeNews.com Yet another consequence of the fake pandemic is the propping up of that doddering old fool, elite television news. The COVID story doesn’t need Walter Cronkite. It only needs wall to wall. From 5AM to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, elites, History, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Alternative news, Authoritarianism, Cable News, censorship, Cognitive Dissonance, coronavirus, corporate news, Covid-19, elites, independent media, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM, network news, Oligarchy, Pandemic, propaganda, Television
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The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content
By Alison Rose Levy Source: FAIR.org As Sen. Bernie Sanders (CJR, 8/26/19) has recently noted, corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance. … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged alternative media, bernie sanders, censorship, Comcast, corporate media, culture, environment, Fracking, independent media, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, MSNBC, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, society, TPP
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EMPIRES ARE A SECRET UNTIL THEY START FALLING
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Source: Popular Resistance In the past, we have written about the 2020s as a decade when the United States Empire will end. This is based on Alfred McCoy’s predictions (listen to our interview with him on Clearing the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, Alfred McCoy, Andre Vltchek, china, corporate media, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Hong Kong, imperialism, independent media, John Galtung, Joshua Wong, Juan Guaidó, Nuclear War, Sanctions, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, United States, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent
Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is funded by a confluence of tech oligarchs and powerful forces with a clear stake in controlling the flow of news. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged ADL, alternative media, big data, Bill Kristol, censorship, corporate news, Craig Newmark, Democracy, elites, Facebook, fascism, geopolitics, Google, independent media, independent news, Internet Freedom, Journalism, Knight Foundation, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Microsoft, MSM, Neocons, NewsGuard, Oligarchy, Pierre Omidyar, Plutocracy, press freedom, Sally Lehrman, Social Media, Technocracy, The Markkula Foundation, The Trust Project, The Democracy Fund, Vivian Schiller
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High Fives to Jimmy Dore for Laughing Russiagaters out of the Room
By John V. Walsh Source: Dissident Voice Jimmy Dore is a comic who has taken on Russiagate, a deadly serious matter. He is one of those brave souls who count themselves as progressives but dared to call into question Russiagate. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, Humor, media, Media Literacy, news, Podcasts, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged Aaron Mate, Cable News, Cold War, comedy, corporate news, Donald Trump, independent media, Jimmy Dore, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM, Mueller Report, propaganda, rachel maddow, Russia, RussiaGate, war, Western Establishment Media
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The Alt-Media Has Way More Fun than the Mainstream Media
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The corporate-state media lives in terror that the truth will somehow leak out of the corporate-Imperial fortress, imperiling their jobs and perks. It’s not exactly news that the Alternative Media is under … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Alt-Media, alternative media, big data, censorship, corporate media, corporate news, corporate-state media, dissent, elites, Fake News, independent media, Mainstream Media, Neo Feudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Rebellion, social control, Social Media
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The Collapse of Major Media
By John Rappoport Source: NoMoreFakeNews.com As I indicated in a recent article, the B-team, or even the C-team, is now heading up the national evening news in America. These anchors’ faces and voices (Muir, Glor, and Holt) are not even … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, conditioning, corporate news, culture, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state
Tagged censorship, CIA, CNN, corporate media, culture, Fake News, independent media, Mainstream News, media, mind control, News Anchors, propaganda, Psy-ops, social control, society
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