Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media, by Dave Lindorff
“Media rarely stray far from the basic framework imposed by systems of power, as FAIR has been effectively documenting for many years.”
Glenn Greenwald: Exploiting Social Justice to Wield Power, with Lee Fang
Glenn Greenwald of System Update interviews Lee Fang of the intercept about how corporations have coopted diversity, tailoring messages to Democrats and Republicans that hide corporate agendas.
Glenn Greenwald: Who’s REALLY Fighting Big Tech?
We’re going to try and do our best to examine what is actually a challenging and an interesting question: faced with a very small group of corporate giants who have used anti-competitive practices to make themselves virtually unchallengeable and inescapable, how can one shrewdly subvert their power without sacrificing one's integrity, or, worse, cynically exploiting the sincere anger of the public toward Big Tech for one's own personal aggrandizement?
Glenn Greenwald on the State of Free Speech In Our Monopolized Internet
We believe there is no more urgent issue than the full-scale, multi-pronged attack on free speech on the internet. The censorship regime they are constructing will enable them to propagandize the population without challenge and fully control the flow of information.
‘An Attack on Free Expression’: Musk Under Fire for Suspending Journalists From Twitter
"If confirmed as retaliation for their work, this would be a serious violation of journalists' right to report the news without fear of reprisal..."
Why are former CIA agents flocking to Facebook and Google
Former CIa and other national security agents are flocking to jobs with the social media as through algorithms and outright censorship they continue to block antiwar and peace and justice articles and websites.
Henry Giroux: The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy
"Times have changed. Capitalism has degenerated into a full-stage criminal enterprise and democracy is no longer distrusted; on the contrary, it is disdained, feared and subject to the scorn of crooks parading as politicians. Instead of having too much democracy, the current historical moment is being framed by the call to eliminate it altogether."
Facebook’s disinformation problem is harder than it looks, by Matthew Ingram
"finding the right line between disinformation control, public-health awareness, and outright censorship is not an easy task."
Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges on the State of the American Empire
Noam Chomsky addresses the current state of the American Empire after the attack on the capital on Jan 6, 2021. His new book: “Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance.”
Chris Hedges: Don’t be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars
"We must be wary of allowing those wielding the toxic charge of racism, no matter how well intentioned their motives, to decide who has a voice and who does not."
Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism, by Dr. Michael I. Niman
By 2016, sophisticated propagandists utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms driven by a seemingly limitless trove of data points on damn near every internet user, revolutionized social media-based psych-ops campaigns.
“The Left Can’t Meme”: How Right-Wing Groups Are Training the Next Generation of Social Media Warriors
...memes in politics: Cheap, subversive, and designed to provoke an emotional response, memes are a disruptive form of information guerrilla warfare. Republicans have gotten Giesea’s message, while Democrats have all but ignored it.