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Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
By Jim Naureckas Source: FAIR There’s a famous polling experiment that asked people in the Cold War-era US: Do you think the United States should let Communist newspaper reporters from other countries come in here and send back to their … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Al Jazeera, Alliance for Securing Democracy, BBC, censorship, CNN, Cold War, corporate media, Facebook, geopolitics, German Marshall Fund, Government Censorship, imperialism, In The Now, Internet Freedom, Maffick Media, media, Media Literacy, PBS, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Rania Khalek, Red Scare, RT, Russia, Social Media, technology, Voice of America
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‘Highly Disturbing’: Facebook Blocks Viral Video Outlets Critical of US Foreign Policy and Corporate Media
Journalists and free speech advocates are calling out the social media giant for shuttering the pages after CNN inquired about Berlin-based media company Maffick’s funding from the Russian government By Jessica Corbett Source: Common Dreams Journalists and advocates of press … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology
Tagged Atlantic Council, big data, censorship, civil liberties, CNN, corporate media, empire, Facebook, geopolitics, imperialism, Internet Freedom, Kevin Gosztola, Maffick, Rania Khalek, RT, RussiaGate, Social Media
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FACEBOOK’S PURGE OF POLITICAL PAGES FUELS DELUSION OF INSURGENT THREATS TO DEMOCRACY
By Kevin Gosztola Source: ShadowProof Facebook’s purge of more than 500 pages and 250 accounts ahead of midterm elections in the United States represents a massive trend to police social media activity in ways that put freedom of expression at … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged activism, alternative media, Anti-Media, big data, Carey Wedler, censorship, civil liberties, Cop Block, Cop Logic, corporate media, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Election 2018, Facebook, Filming Cops, free speech, geopolitics, Hillary Clinton, Nathaniel Gleicher, Oscar Rodriguez, police state, Police the Police, Press For Truth, propaganda, Rachel Blevins, Reverb Press, RT, Russia, Social Media, The Free Thought Project, Twitter
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How To Create NPR’s Propaganda – As Seen In a Hit Piece Against Me
By Lee Camp Source: Naked Capitalism I never thought I’d be the target of an NPR attack piece. Through my twenties I even looked to NPR as an outlet full of good, progressive, thoughtful reporting – You know, the soothing voices … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, divide and conquer, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged censorship, Cold War, corporatocracy, elites, Iraq War, Julia Ioffe, Lee Camp, media, National Public Radio, neo-McCarthyism, Neocons, New York Times, news, NPR, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Redacted Tonight, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Scott Simon, war, Weekend Edition
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The Acceleration of Censorship in America
By Joe Lauria Source: The Unz Review Under increasing pressure from a population angry about endless wars and the transfer of wealth to the one percent, American plutocrats are defending themselves by suppressing critical news in the corporate media they … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged censorship, conspiracy, corporate media, Crowdstrike, DNC, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream News, McCarthyism, NATO, news, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, RT, Russia Today, Russian Hackers, social control
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RT America Torched In Witch Hunt ’17
By Chris Hedges Source: Popular Resistance In one of the most horrendous blows to press freedom since the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Justice has forced the news broadcaster RT America to file under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, freedom of speech, media, Neoliberalism, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Abby Martin, Black List, censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, Corporate Propaganda, Director of National Intelligence, DNI, FARA, Foreign Agents Registration Act, freedom of speech, Mainstream News, Neoliberalism, police state, propaganda, Red Scare, RT, RT America, Russia Today, surveillance state, The World Socialist Web Site, Totalitarianism, Truthdig, U.S. Department of Justice
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CIA-Connected Google Aims to Weaken RT
By Stephen Lendman Source: StephenLendman.org Google transformed itself from a search engine to online censor. Last July, the World Socialist Web Site reported “changes to its search service to make it harder for users to access what it called ‘low-quality’ … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged censorship, Cold War, corporate news, Deep State, FBI, First Amendment, free speech, Google, Information War, Internet Freedom, propaganda, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Sputnik News, World Socialist Website, youtube
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State Department Discusses Banning Alternative Media Outlet
By Justin King Source: AntiMedia.org The US State Department has openly discussed shutting down RT, the Russian news network. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was asked about the idea of shutting the company down at a meeting at the … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, corporate news, culture, propaganda, Science, Social Control, society, Video
Tagged Abby Martin, AntiMedia.com, Brookings Institute, James Kirchik, Liz Wahl, Neocons, RT, Russia Today, Victoria Nuland
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