#propaganda
"[F]acts unfortunately do not change people’s minds. Propaganda, on the other hand, works very well on this front."
https://psyche.co/ideas/facts-dont-change-minds-a-case-for-the-virtues-of-propaganda
#positivepropaganda #propaganda #culturechange #narrativechange
John Mearsheimer | America's TERRIBLE Media(video)..#Empire..#UkraineRussiaWar..#propaganda..#MSM https://youtu.be/1yDdNFsQvrQ
Elon:
Your efforts for Erdogan definitely proved more fruitful than that crash-and-burn Twitter shit show you “launched” for DeSantis, you authoritarian tool.
#Erdogan #Turkey #ElonMusk #Twitter #StateRunMedia #StateMedia #authoritarianism #propaganda #misinformation
Nazi-Kunst: "Hitlers Hengste" und ihre Geschichte | DW | 28.05.2023
Most #Propaganda Looks Nothing Like This https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/most-propaganda-looks-nothing-like
Gen. Zalužnyj je od začátku května zřejmě neschopen velet a zcela znizel z informačního prostoru. Propaganda - tentokrát v podání idnes - nás ale přesto bude motivovat tím, že on sám "dramatickým videem anoncuje začátek ofenzívy".
Milá Jolano Vašinová, autorko toho nesmyslu, jen vojenský idiot by anoncoval začátek ofenzívy. Nechápu proč z gen. Zalužného děláte idiota - to jen kvůli tomu, aby vypadal, že nebyl vážně raněn? 🤔
Ich habe die Vermutung dass im Rahmen von politischer #Propaganda die Anwendung psychologischer Zusammenhänge stark verbreitet ist. Wie das #Gaslighting . Die Ähnlichkeiten sind zu viele.
https://www.t-online.de/leben/alltagswissen/id_100138550/luegen-und-manipulation-was-steckt-hinter-gaslighting-.html
Hier ist ein englischer Artikel zum Thema:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/experimentations/202305/the-anatomy-of-gaslighting
🇬🇧 UK Ministry of Defence: Latest Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 28 May 2023.
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1662705157996441600?s=19
«Rebeldes» al servicio de Ucrania https://slavyangrad.es/2023/05/28/rebeldes-al-servicio-de-ucrania/ @nsanzo #EjércitoUcraniano #ExtremaDerecha #BatallónAzov #propaganda #Bratstvo #Fascismo #Ucrania #Donbass #Prensa #Rusia #Azov
Next month I’ll be speaking at @otago ‘Foreign Policy School 2023: Populism and Global Politics’ 30 June-2 July 2023 time to register: https://www.otago.ac.nz/foreign-policy-school/index.html #conferences #foreignpolicy #politics #NewZealand #Populism #Trump #Brexit #foreignpolicy #propaganda #disinformation #commodon #polisci #policy
#SocialMedia #Twitter #Musk #FoxNews #FarRight #Propaganda: "Many questions about Twitter’s plan remain unanswered, including whether an audience will actually develop for long-form video on the platform and how it will be monetized. It also remains to be seen whether a presidential campaign that prioritizes Twitter over Fox can actually gain control of the GOP.
What’s crystal clear is that if you are an advertiser in business with Twitter, you’re in the Elon Musk business. And soon, you’re going to be in the Daily Wire business, the Tucker Carlson business, and the Ron DeSantis business as well."
https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/elon-musks-twitter-stakes-its-claim-new-fox-news
🇳🇫 #TAIWAN: ❝#China 🇨🇳 invitations ‘#propaganda’: official❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/05/28/2003800561
Computerspiel "Death from Above": Was ist erlaubt auf virtuellem Schlachtfeld? | DW | 27.05.2023
The term #Woke | Originally a word used by mostly African Americans to be aware of the pervasive nature of discrimination by race in day to day American living. It began it's transformation into a right wing rallying cry in reaction to the term being used by progressive groups in the wake of the George Floyd murder. #conservative groups are now co-opting the term as part of their brand. #propaganda is insidious and marketed daily. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/
Askew so that a few can continue to wonder around.
#Aminus3: https://dabnotu.aminus3.com/image/2023-05-27.html
#Blipfoto: https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3108918768831562544
#Barcelona #DataBending #Digital #Edited #GNUImageManipulationProgram #Mashup #MultipleExposure #Noise #Poster #Propaganda #StreetPhotography #Tenacity #Urban
CC :cc_by: :cc_nc_eu: :cc_nd: 4.0
Nella nuova #TeleMeloni anche #RaiNews24 , che era una delle pochissime reti che desse un vaghissimo senso al #serviziopubblico , è diventata una specie di organo di #propaganda di questo #governoestremadestra
Il bello è che qualcuno dell'opposizione parla di organo di #vigilanza e altre #buffonate del genere, quando si sa benissimo che finirà a #taralluccievino, come sempre in questo ormai #clownesco paese.
#rai #comunali # destra #governomeloni #governodeiclown
Just a day after the US imposes #sanctions on the head of #Russia's #Wagner group in #Mali drops our next #TheGlobalJigsaw : you can find out more about African influencers amplifying #Kremlin #propaganda - What’s the appeal for people in the #Sahel region and beyond? And how has the arrival of #Russian boots changed the equation on the ground in the fight against #jihadist groups?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvrk
The evil of "BIG GLOBE" is back in the news:
Ana has bought into #BigGlobe #Propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj9zEE42cYY
#FlatEarth #GOP #Republicans #GopShite #Nutjobs #ConspiracyTheories #Secret #Communist #Democrats #GlobeHeads #Satanic #Paedophiles #TheYoungTurks #AnaKasparian #Brainwash
@MaryPot @EugeneMcParland Good Hint, I will buy no llonger:
Häagen Dazs
Kit Kat
Lions Cereals
Maggi
Mövenpick
Nescafé
Nesquik
Nestea
Quality Street
Vittel
Ben & Jerrys
Domestos
Dove
Hellmanns
Knorr
Magnum
Cornetto
Eskimo
Langnese
Magnum
Mondamin
Pfanni
Solero
Viennetta
#lebensmittel #essen #ukraine #russland #krieg #propaganda #kriegsverbrecher #kapitalismus #ernährung #einzelhandel
4 LETTER WORDS IN POLITICS:
Just my observation, but it seems the bigoted right, especially from US, push simplistic 4 letter words like 'woke' and 'fake (news)' to manipulate the under-educated and those who haven't seen the world beyond their back yard.
4 letter, 1 syllable words are used to elicit a response so fast that it bypasses conscious analysis and hooks directly into resentment and narcissism.
#nzpol #uspol #ukpol #politics #woke #education #language #hypnosis #propaganda
Western #Europe is blind to #China 's influence operations.
“Beijing has long aimed #propaganda at the European Union, seeking to undermine #transatlantic unity and promote Beijing’s outlook on world affairs.”
#bbc is #propaganda media.
BBC debunks ivermectin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy7c_FHiEac
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Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58170809
For the record, this is not a map w/o Ukraine :: La Russie Blanche ou Moscovie, by Guillaume Sanson, 1674
#ChronoLink https://mprove.de/chrono?m=BFbtv1b531192604&o=0.95&d=1&s=1
Just learned of this term "hahaganda" from the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency's Magnus Hjort.
#disinformation #MDM #hahaganda #Kremlin #propaganda #memes
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/key-narratives-in-pro-kremlin-disinformation-part-5-the-hahaganda/
Another 1980s diva, and Teutonic as well (guess who's next on my list!), is Claudia Brücken, singing here over a big thumping techno-styled backing track –
Propaganda, "The Murder of Love" (1985)
#JukeboxFridayNight #RockAndRollDivas #Propaganda #ClaudiaBrucken
Leverage the power of positive #propaganda to maximise your business impact! Taking advantage of people’s attention and emotions, this #strategy will help craft and spread messages that create a long-term impact and resonate with your target audience.
Leverage the power of positive #propaganda to maximise your business impact! Taking advantage of people’s attention and emotions, this #strategy will help craft and spread messages that create a long-term impact and resonate with your target audience.
Leverage the power of positive #propaganda to maximise your business impact! Taking advantage of people’s attention and emotions, this #strategy will help craft and spread messages that create a long-term impact and resonate with your target audience.
Leverage the power of positive #propaganda to maximise your business impact! Taking advantage of people’s attention and emotions, this #strategy will help craft and spread messages that create a long-term impact and resonate with your target audience.
Absolut ausbaufähig.
Awareness-Schuljahr wäre noch besser.
Aber mit all den Klimaproblemen und dem Krieg wohl schwierig durchzuführen...wenngleich #Propaganda auch für Ersteres sogar mit die Ursache ist:
Companies demand the free-market, the "marketplace of ideas".
That is... unless it hurts profits.
🇷🇺 Thousands of #Russian schoolchildren to be sent to military-patriotic camps for tactical and gun training.
Znikające koncerty - nadchodzi czystka w kulturze
W całym kraju są odwoływane koncerty, festiwale, wernisaże i wszystkie imprezy rozrywkowe lub kulturalne na żywo. Powód jest zawsze podobny "wydarzenie zostało przełożone z nieprzewidzianych powodów" na bliżej nieokreślony czas.
https://wp.me/p3fv0T-f9M #POLECANE #Chiny #ChRL #kultura #popkultura #propaganda #rozrywka #totalitaryzm #KPCh #komunizm
#SocialMedia #Twitter #FarRight #Propaganda #Musk #ConspiracyTheories: "Twitter has long been described, even by its most ardent users, as a hellsite. But under Elon Musk, Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler. It is now a right-wing social network.
In December, I argued that if we are to judge Musk strictly by his actions as Twitter’s owner, it is accurate to call him a far-right activist. As a public figure, he has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the right’s culture war against progressivism—which he refers to as “the woke mind virus”—and his $44 billion Twitter purchase can easily be seen as an explicitly political act to advance this specific ideology. Now the site itself has unquestionably transformed under his leadership into an alternative social-media platform—one that offers a haven to far-right influencers and advances the interests, prejudices, and conspiracy theories of the right wing of American politics."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-2024-twitter/674149/
South Africa's ANC General Secretary humiliates BBC reporter..#BBC..#UkraineRussiaWar.#propaganda..#West https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasant/comments/13qqwzf/how_many_crimes_has_your_country_committed_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Let me tell you how well propaganda works. In 2016 the USA elected donald trump...
Nationalist Dhamma schools: “Buddhist education centres for children & young adults are multiplying across Myanmar, but…critics say they teach toxic #nationalism & military #propaganda… #Dhamma schools have been supported by the #Tatmadaw… Both before & after the recent military takeover, the #junta leader…#MinAungHlaing, has repeatedly urged…for people to open Dhamma schools. Now some parents feel compelled to send their children to the Dhamma schools | Frontier Myanmar https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/psychological-violence-nationalist-dhamma-schools-make-a-comeback-under-junta/
#KarelČapek
Násilí zbavuje lidi svobody vůle; propaganda je zbavuje svobodného úsudku [...] jak víte, i demokracie se musí bránit zbraněmi, jde-li se na ni s flintou a kanónem; a musí se bránit slovem a tiskem, je-li jimi ohrožována. Jakmile se v tomto slzavém údolí bojuje propagandou, je ten, kdo váhá dát svému národu jakoukoliv možnost čelit jí, asi tak chytrý jako ten, kdo odmítá vyzbrojit svůj stát ve světě mávajícím zbraněmi.
Hindutva Profiles: Amit Malviya
Malviya, the ringmaster of the propaganda machinery/BJP IT Cell, has to his credit the title of the first Indian political personality to face a restrictive action by Twitter for spreading misinformation. Malviya tweeted an edited clip from the farmers’ protests which Twitter tagged as ‘manipulated media.’
His troll army runs campaigns for genocide, incites hatred, violence, and posts profanities and threats to those who dare to dissent with the Hindu supremacist ideology.
#HindutvaProfiles #AmitMalviya #BJP #trolls #FarRightTrolls #hindutva #HateSpeech #propaganda #islamophobia #SocialMedia #twitter #facebook #meta #india
#Angstmacherei ist die wirkungsvollste #Propaganda.
Dabei sind die Argumente für ein #KlimaschutzJA glasklar.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zustimmung-zum-klimagesetz-broeckelt-379055305432
Advice and tools for avoiding disinformation and fakes. #disinformation #news #propaganda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/22/misinformation-ai-twitter-facebook-guide/
@pasci_lei
#Putin|s #propaganda kommt im Fernsehen...
Die #flüchtlinge aus #Belgorod kommen aber vor diversen Haustüren an...
Und alle bei denen die vor der Tür stehen werden anzweifeln ob sie #Putin noch schützen kann... und gleichzeitig Angst haben das ihre Kinder eingezogen werden..
🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 🇷🇺 Despite recent efforts by #Baltic authorities to counter #Kremlin influence, pro-Kremlin activists persist in their activities unabated, and #propaganda publications steadily advance Moscow's agenda.
Im Moment weiß man von #Belgorod leider gar nichts genaues #Propaganda von allen Seiten.
Ich hoffe mal das #RDK sich möglichst lange halten können. Dann müsste #Putin viele Kräfte von der bisherigen Front abziehen, um die nördliche Grenze zu sichern. Ein riesiger Vorteil für die #Ukraine vor der/den anstehenden #fruhjahrsoffensive(n)
The answer to the headlines question: Nope.
' Democrats, by and large, think the news they get from existing outlets is reasonably trustworthy, as this helpful YouGov poll ... spells out. It’s Republicans who distrust almost all outlets that aren’t explicitly aimed at them, like NewsMax. And even the Messenger’s own poll [says that] 55% of Democrats think coverage of their own party is fair — but only 19% of Republicans said the same. '
https://www.vox.com/23734303/cnn-the-messenger-unbiased-cable-news
Fake AI image of Pentagon 'explosion' briefly tumbles stock markets.
Russia social media, including RT, pushed it on Twitter, including a fake Bloomberg account with a Verified Blue Check #AI #Propaganda
Propaganda is just rhetoric for the masses.
This is one of the most horrific things I've seen on #elonmusk #birdsite #Twitter where #nazi #propaganda reigns free. This image has been pixelated. The original, spread all over, was not.
It represents a nude Anne Frank, smiling and happy, in a faux resort Auschwitz. IOW: It's synthetic child porn combined with holocaust denial.
Anger is what they want. To trigger you, so you are at your least rational and most vulnerable, and thereby with propaganda to normalize ethnic mass murder.
Similar to:
Spin me up an array of websites dedicated to media and independent journalism, all of which publish articles on particular topics, referring to each other to create an impression of rigour and authenticity.
Complement this with dozens of social media accounts which engage in debate around these topics and link to these sites.
Make sure that the overall impression given is that x is true and y is false.
I knew from the beginning that the story of homeless vets being kicked out of a hotel to make room for asylum-seekers was bullshit, as everyone else should have.
I wonder if the folks who fell for it have ever been to America.
If #Erdogan is winning the election in #Turkey, he won't make the mistake again that any other party is able to reach almost half of the votes (despite massive #propaganda) again.
The #EU will be in a very difficulty situation. Revoking Turkey as a candidate to join the EU because of their establishment of a dictatorship or keeping in touch with a dictator in order to retain some influence... 🤔
Many Turkish people aren't aware of the significance of this probably final election. #LastChance
RWers are such shameless liars.
"Story of homeless veterans displaced by migrants was false"
Your occasional reminder that the GOP's 'weaponization of gov' BS started with Trump claiming that Obama was spying on his campaign thru its microwaves.
It was a big joke on late-night TV. Folks like Lindsay Graham and Devin Nunes (!) scoffed at it.
Then, thru sheer repetition it became an actual fake scandal that's horrified millions of gullible wingnuts and resulted in these ludicrous hearings in the House.
(It's also some very obvious projection.)
If owning a car is an absolute necessity for you, then driving the smallest possible electric vehicle that meets your minimum needs can be a good choice.
But beware — industry advertising and government propaganda will try to convince you that you need something BIGGER, as we learn in this article from Amy Westervelt (@amywestervelt)...
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The transportation sector is the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., which is why it’s a primary target for decarbonization. And thanks to the availability of both electric vehicles and government incentives to purchase them, American consumers are embracing the shift, with EVs expected to represent half of all new vehicle purchases by 2030.
But that shift will bring with it other environmental impacts related to mineral mining and the land required for large-scale renewable projects to provide the electricity all those cars plug into. Policies that reduce car dependency and encourage the use of mass transit can speed decarbonization, make the energy transition more just, reduce environmental impacts, and ease tensions around increasingly scarce resources.
Policies that reduce the need for mining and land tend to be popular with voters too. They enable things like more public transit options, which consistently polls well with American voters.
They’re not so popular with entrenched corporate interests, though. The automotive industry, for example, is not only unlikely to get behind measures to reduce car dependency, it’s also working hard to sell Americans on the largest possible electric vehicles.
According to data from the advertising data firm MediaRadar, the top five largest ad budgets for electric vehicles over the last two years were all for SUVs, not the sedans or compacts that run on smaller batteries. Brands with multiple electric car models, including Chevrolet, Nissan, and Volkswagen, spent more than twice as much money advertising their largest models as their more efficient compact models.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://theintercept.com/2023/05/08/energy-transition-utilities-consumption/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Propaganda
What do you think?
Can a #YouTube #video reach disaffected #Russians and motivate them enough to risk everything to spy for the #CIA?
I wonder if this is effective #propaganda or if it's just feel-good marketing from a recently-appointed director who needs to produce something to validate his claims of recruitment success.
Either way, taxpayer dollars at work.
'As the #BBC reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh put it, “These days, if you want to find the latest conspiracy theories trending on Twitter, the easiest thing to do is to check tweets Elon Musk replies to, you’ll find most of them.”'
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-george-soros-anti-semites/674072/
#ElonMusk #Soros #Nazis #Misinformation #Propaganda #ConspiracyTheories #Twitter #GOPShite #News
The irony of using Dewey as someone to quote on critical thinking when Ellul points out more modern propaganda is based on his work.
The #Durham investigation was a flop. But it’s a #propaganda triumph.
by Paul Waldman
Special counsel John Durham had everything he needed. Time, money, resources & a clear if not-quite-stated charge from then-AG William P. #Barr: Go after the investigation into Russia’s attempts to manipulate the 2016 election. Turn over every rock. Make the whole thing look like the “hoax” Donald #Trump said it was.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/16/durham-investigation-trump-russia/
How Republicans sold state legislatures on anti-trans bills using a few detransitioners from GOP groups.
Gift link (thank the public library):
#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #antitrans #civilrights #transrights #astroturf #moralpanic #satanicpanic2023 #uspol #propaganda #inleg #indiana
Politische Talkshows in Russland als Stimmungsmache
Politische Talkshows sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil für die Verbreitung von Propaganda in Russland - mit zum Teil drastischen Inhalten. Vor allem eine nukleare Eskalation wird gerne heraufbeschworen. Von C. Reveland und P. Siggelkow.
https://t.me/United24media/9167
‼️🇺🇦The New and Improved - Armed Forces of Ukraine: “Of the troops, For the troops” Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 (VIDEO) #Ukraine #NATO #Propaganda #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
In uncertain times of deep-fake realities & AI-driven propaganda, memes can be a tool to produce shared imaginaries and showcase some of our possible futures.
Join HYPECOMPASS workshop by #Clusterduck: June 6, 7pm ACUD MACHT NEU in #Berlin.
Learn more & get tickets: https://dnlb.org/hype
So I've written a foreword draft and outlined the first couple chapters of a short book, tentatively called "Post-Apocalyptic Sociology." Someone said it was "retrohistorical archeology." I consider it a meditation on how today, as humankind holds the corpus of all history, literature, survey date, etc.- we face the same issue as every age before us.
Namely, how do we keep this alive for future generations, and if we were to put ourselves in the shoes of future (or far future) social scientists, how can we make it so they can conduct the kind of research we would want to do?
We can evaluate prior generations' attempts to do this, whether explicitly #propaganda or good-faith attempts that have had their effective strengths and maddening shortcomings.
Attached is the (very rough) foreword, which I wrote mostly on Friday to just have it down so I can start doing some outlining and figure out what #library access and databases I need to use.
https://www.scribd.com/document/645491341/The-End-of-All-Things-and-the-Things-After-That
#sociology #research #socialscience #future #archeology #history @sociology
It's not in the article but it should be. If your emotional reaction is one of pleasure (dopamine hit as one says) that means you really must double check as well. Effective propaganda (Misinformation) does that as well. In fact any appeal bypassing your rational side is suspect.
It's time for another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, a co-production of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee, sponsored by Microsoft, the New York Times, and the US military-industrial complex.
🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶 😃
#Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #War #Propaganda
R. Hobbs & S. McGee, Journal of Media Literacy Education 6(2), 56 - 67 56
Available online at www.jmle.org
The National Association for Media Literacy Education’s Journal of Media Literacy Education 6(2), 56 - 67
Teaching about Propaganda:
An Examination of the Historical Roots of Media Literacy
Renee Hobbs and Sandra McGee
This was an excellent read. Fits in very well with Stuart Ewen's book PR!
Andreessen Horwitz is still trying to find a greater fool to buy #cryptocurrency. @molly0xfff picks their #propaganda apart:
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto
Und ja, es sind schon ganze Züge an #Soldaten desertiert.
Nur die größten #Propaganda-Schafe wollen diesen #Krieg #Putin|s gegen die #Ukraine.
Ich bin mir sicher dass diese als Kriegsgefangene sogar besser behandelt werden als wenn diese weiterhin auf russischer Seite versuchen zu überleben...
@ravensview Don't under estimate the effect propaganda such as this has on the voting public. Who owns the Globe and Mail? Who would benefit from a Poilievre PM?
Propaganda or nowadays PR or Spin is still at work and studying propaganda should be a part of anyone studying critical thinking.
@Dianora There's been a lot said on education, and I don't think that well's spent yet.
There's also the distinction between liberal and servile education --- the classical Seven Liberal Arts of the Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric --- or input, processing, and output as I like to consider them), and Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, or quantity, quantity in space, quantity in time, and quantity in space-time). C.P. Snow's "Two Cultures" is a more contemporary take on that, or present STEM/STEAM initiatives.
On propaganda, I twigged a few years ago that censorship, propaganda, surveillance, and targeted manipulation are all inherent elements of a media monopoly (both terms used in a broad sense), and emerge from them.
See: https://archive.is/8ceqI (Original site is now offline.)
I'd also long since recognised that privacy is an emergent concept as well, and a response to ever-more-intrusive communications, observation, and recording technologies. There's a reason why there was little discussion of the topic prior to Warren & Brandeis's treatment.
I'm something of a fan of articles from the cusp of the Internet age which discussed possible directions and implications, some prescient, some misguided. Jeffrey Rosen's The Unwanted Gaze (2000) still bears up as a good guide here, I think:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL506586W/The_unwanted_gaze
Any pointers to your work at Centre for Inquiry?
#propaganda #censorship #surveillance #TargetedManipulation #monopoly #MediaMonopoly #TheUnwantedGaze #JeffreyRosen #privacy #LiberalArts #Trivium #Quadrivium
I know it's boring and "#Russia, Russia, Russia", but nobody in the #US #news appears to be mentioning that it's potentially worth trillions of dollars, and the very future of #Putin and #Ukraine, for him to get #Trump in as the next US President - Especially since it doesn't seem that Americans see #DeSantis as Presidential at all so he's a dead-end at the moment.
#Politics #Geopolitics #Propaganda #Kompromat #TuckerCarlson #MAGA #GOPShite #Pity the poor #Horse
I used to have a measured bit of respect for #cnn & #chris #licht . After tonight's #tfg #fiasco, you can be sure I will avoid this #unforgivable extension of #unchallenged #gop #propaganda.
Abetting the continued slander / crimes of the disgraced twice impeached, sexual abuser, and indicted former president is just horrible.
I found this amusing... #protests #propaganda
Photo 1: Daily Fail Headline
Photo 2: The Reply [click on photo]
Stuart Ewen's book "PR! A social history of spin" is an excellent summary. There is overlap between critical thinking and media/propaganda awareness. Propagandists throughout the ages rely upon a poorly educated population. Oddly he touches upon the power on independent social media of which the Fediverse is a part (although not mentioned)
A must read.
#CriticalThinking #Propaganda #Media #Philosophy #Mastodon #Fediverse
📷 Digital billboard in Jesusville, November 3, 2022, 11:18 AM.
#streetphotography #photo #Photography #billboard #advertising #GOP #politics #propaganda #FediversalPictures #AltTex
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) is a prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal. It rejects 86% of submitted manuscripts.
PNAS accepts opinion submissions, which must be 1,500-2,000 words long. Some right-wingers submitted an opinion piece with over 10,000 words, and it was rejected.
The #NewYorkTimes claims that this is evidence of an evil woke conspiracy.
It is immoral to pay for a NYT subscription. If you have one, please cancel it.
Well, I think we can say the #2024elections season has officially begun. #Propaganda aiming to suppress voter enthusiasm and boost support for conservative-funded "third party" candidates has begun to suffuse social media, thanks to their gullible, unwitting allies who believe they're too far left to vote Democrat.
In other words, she wrote some books. Without bad-faith whataboutism, the RW #media would have nothing to say.
Anyway, they could always join our calls for SCOTUS to adopt a code of ethics if they weren't just about churning out lame #propaganda for the rubes.
Yeah, #Bellingcat is on Mastodon: @Bellingcat
Some time ago it was a rather empty account, but they started to post regularly now.
Bellingcat is one of the most important #investigation platforms for #journalism and part of the Global Investigative Journalism Network: https://www.bellingcat.com/ They work also intensively on factchecking Russian #propaganda and #WarCrimes.
#InvestigativeJournalism #factcheck #FollowFriday
"Critical thinking varies according to the motivation underlying it. When grounded in selfish motives, it is often manifested in the skillful manipulation of ideas in service of one’s own, or one's groups’, vested interest. As such it is typically intellectually flawed, however pragmatically successful it might be." - From https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766
I'd call that propaganda myself. (Disinformation)
Discussion w family member today re political violence and right-wing ideology. People assume that only uneducated and intellectually inferior people can be captured by #propaganda. But authoritarian and fascist movements attract plenty of intelligent people. Why? Because they offer relief from complexity and ambiguity. Because they distill a complex world into a handful of simple maxims. Fascism steadies the dizzy and disoriented. #politics #democracy #fascism #sociology
「Xi has constantly seen the collapse of the Soviet Union as a tragedy, and a historical lesson for CCP members to meticulously study so as to avoid. In this view, mentioning the human rights atrocities committed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is an effort to undermine the achievements of the Soviet system.」
In the same vein, *all* crimes by the Chinese communist dictatorship must be erased from history and people's memories.
Meanwhile we are to believe that reality-denying, revanchist, ethno-jingoist and military-expansionist whirlpool of propaganda is a totally sane and righteous 'win-win recipe' for CCP-PRC's "peaceful rise to global hegemon status".
We've already seen the #russian version of exactly that imperially entitled mindset in action in #Ukraine.
CCP's own "biding time, hiding strength" strategy is increasingly incompatible with the need to create new, even more glorious reality for the masses.
#CCP #PRC #china #imperialism #revanchism #propaganda #humanrights
@cmorris @williamnee
@Teri_Kanefield Here’s the link to that segment of Nicolle Wallace’s interview with #AbbyGrossberg on #DeadlineWH (posted by @sarahburris)
#TuckerCarlson #FoxNews #FauxNews #Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrF2yLZfV7w
Whether it's tracking #TuckerCarlson’s next moves, spotting #CambridgeAnalytica stealing private #data or dodging #Brexit lies... our online environment can seem hard to navigate without a robust understanding of #propaganda. Which is why I created my new #Udemy course. 🤓📚🖊️ sign up now! https://www.udemy.com/course/propaganda-disinformation-level-1-beginners/?referralCode=F6D164B12D33A0 #disinformation
Maybe a little addendum here. If you were raised in the US, and haven't thought about this before, you might be thinking "But socialism and communism lead to oppression". First, I'd like to point out that I only mentioned socialism in passing, and not even by name. I didn't mention communism at all. You're thinking about it because of American #propaganda. We're taught that if we have anything but unfettered capitalism, and the next thing you know, Stalin is running the place. I'm being a little flippant here, but it's largely true
I think it was @AnarchoNinaWrites who was talking about how we don't have a very advanced vocabulary to talk about this, so bear with me
Socialism means (more or less) government ownership. It matters a lot if that government is democratic or authoritarian, but we only have the one word
Communism, is not well defined. Marx never really nailed it down, but as I understand his idea was "the workers own the factory," and that sounds like a worker co-op to me, in modern terms 😉
5/4
Big news in the non-news (but calling it news) department:
"TUCKER CARLSON OUT AT FOX NEWS, NETWORK CONFIRMS"
"News"? Fox?
#Karma catching up with the #TrumpVirus / #Fox / #disinformation / #hate cultism of the #GQP / #Fascism fans
With a healthy dollop of CYA ‘cut your losses’ network reaction too. (Wait til the next lawsuits! Without Tucker to 'own'.)
#Karma catching up with the #TrumpVirus #hate cultism of #GQP / #Fascism / hate #propaganda and tribal division
Dr. Jonathan Howard: “While many of us were surrounded by mass death, begging people to stay safe, other doctors, sheltered from the consequences of their words, were making YouTube videos and influencing politicians to spread a new virus widely amongst unvaccinated youth.”
#Covid #PublicHealth #WeWantThemInfected #Books #Pandemic #Disinformation #Propaganda
You're Not Immune To Propaganda - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl2fnWIlDZg
"It's very common in the West, especially in the US, for people to assume that propaganda doesn't really exist in our society. Sure, those other countries brainwash their citizens, but not us! No, all our media is completely unbiased. Let's explore the idea of propaganda, and how exactly it functions in neoliberal capitalism."
Recommended!
And he’s lifted the #shadowbans on #authoritarian regimes #propaganda outlets, to broaden their reach.
In order to perpetuate his desire to legitimize hostile state #propaganda outlets, such as from Russia and China, Musk engaged in the final stage of his NPR, BBC, and Canadian Broadcasting scheme last night. He removed all the government-sponsored media labels from ALL outlets on #Twitter.
This appears to have been the goal all along. Create a faux issue with #NPR, then use it as an excuse to legitimize Putin’s propaganda machine while journalists focus on it as a “retreat” from wrongly labeling independent-editorial outlets like NPR.
Perhaps our #journalist friends will focus on this aspect of the story a bit more.
Jetzt auch als Artikel bei @heiseonline:
Nach Streit mit NPR & Co: Label zur Medienfinanzierung auf Twitter verschwunden
Noch vor Tagen haben englischsprachige Medien öffentlichkeitswirksam mit Twitter über Kennzeichnungen zur Finanzierung gestritten. Nun sind die verschwunden.
#BBC #CBC #ElonMusk #Medien #NPR #PBS #Propaganda #SocialMedia #Twitter
In case you were unaware, RT, aka Russia Today, is the propaganda arm of Putin’s authoritarian government. They appear to have an Instance on Mastodon. I’ve blocked them. You may want to share this information and block them too.
Background (From the US State Department):
https://www.state.gov/report-rt-and-sputniks-role-in-russias-disinformation-and-propaganda-ecosystem/
#putin #rt #russiatoday #propaganda #authoritarians #democracy
Whether it's #Fox refusing to apologize for its #lies, weaponized leaks or the threats of #AI #disinformation... our digital media environment can seem increasingly hard to navigate without a robust understanding of #propaganda. Which is why I created my new @udemy course. 🤓👇Sign up now and master the misdirection!!! https://www.udemy.com/course/propaganda-disinformation-level-1-beginners/?referralCode=F6D164B12D33A03ADF60 #media #digital #socialmedia
Tangentially, calling the US a democracy is #propaganda, plain and simple.