Journalism: Research paper finds 91% of US news coverage of Covid-19 is negative in nature
Research paper finds 91% of U.S. news reports about Covid-19 are negative in nature, even when there are good news items to report.
Youtube confirms it is a propaganda platform – for their own propaganda
Google/Youtube, in a bizarre Twitter post, comes across as a colonizing force telling native Americans what they should think – and says that we should be celebrating Unthanksgiving.
The world according to Twitter: Warnings on merely Liking a tweet that Twitter disagrees with
Twitter will warn you if Like a tweet that Twitter has decided might contain misinformation – in other words, something that disagrees with Twitter’s politics and narratives. Twitter is now the world’s censor.
Censorship study finds censorship growing rapidly, worldwide, even in “free” countries
The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of the world’s freest countries are not safe from internet censorship. Source: ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies | University of Michigan News
Senate Democrats ask YouTube CEO to remove election misinformation
This is basically government imposed censorship via proxy: Senate Democrats wrote a letter to YouTube’s CEO, citing concern about rampant election misinformation on the platform. Source: Senate Democrats ask YouTube CEO to remove election misinformation As noted in recent posts Google and Twitter have both recently taken steps to censor views by scientists that go against the current narrative. Eminent scientists have, in those cases, asked questions about current pandemic policies – that question the underlying assumptions behind them. When…
Unlocked UK episode – Mike Yeadon – Banned on YT
Twitter is also censoring the views of Dr. Michael Yeadon.
“YouTube removes lockdown-sceptical interview with renowned immunologist Dr Mike Yeadon for ‘violating terms of service’”
Dr. Yeadon is an immunologist and was formerly Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Pfizer. As his views do not fit the officially approved government commentary, Youtube has deleted his video interview.
Covid-19: The media wants to keep you scared-but it looks like things may be improving
While too early to tell, it seems that the 3rd wave of Covid-19 may have peaked, nationally, in the past week. There will continue to be regional growth areas, however, as the entire nation does not peak simultaneously. There is much good news at this point – but as the linked fear porn news item illustrates, the media’s sole purpose is to keep you in a frightened state, scared to step outside. As the new cases curve subsides, the media’s attention will focus on hospitalizations and deaths – numbers which lag the new cases peak by 1-4 weeks, typically – while hiding the new cases curve. This is effectively media propaganda intended to keep you scared.
The viral social media propaganda poster that started this web site
Blast from the past: the social media propaganda poster that led to the birth of this blog and web site.
Social media: A fake viral poster shows photo taken at a flea market, not a protest
A photo from a flea market, taken months ago, is repurposed by social media propagandists as a purported “hate group” at a Trump rally. Repurposing old photos from unrelated events is a staple of online social media propaganda.