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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The platforms are not worried whether the content people are seeing is accurate—once a person starts down the pro-Trump rabbit hole, that’s what he or she will be fed. No wonder so many people have come away with a delusional understanding of the Trump agenda. Capital was not “woke” before Trump, and it is not “anti-woke” now; it is capital, and its incentives are always toward profit. But authoritarianism, by nature, skews those incentives toward subservience to the state.

The Trump agenda, if successfully carried out, will lead to misery on a massive scale. It will test the bars of the algorithmic cage—will Americans judge based on their own experiences, or by what they see on their screens? As Chris Hayes writes in his new book, The Siren’s Call, “Before you can persuade, you must capture attention.” Where Trump and his allies are at fault for hardship, they will seek to persuade, using the networks of communication they have captured, that someone else is at fault, that the debacles they have concocted are not occurring or are in actuality positive events. Where they cannot do this, they will simply try to bewilder Americans by clogging these channels with toxic waste, flooding “the zone with shit,” as the Trump stalwart Steve Bannon once put it."

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

The Atlantic · Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic CageBy Adam Serwer
#USA#Trump#SocialMedia
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"It’s worth noting that not all of Musk’s attacks on the administrative and liberal state are equally pernicious. There are real issues with USAID and its role as a soft power arm of meddling US imperial bureaucrats, as well as a political shield for U.S. atrocities, from Yemen to Gaza, as I’ve noted here and elsewhere. But USAID also does objectively useful work because many countries grow dependent on them, and it’s very clear that, based on recent statements made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, what is most likely going to happen is the sinister activity USAID does will simply be folded back into the State Department directly or the CIA (as it used to be) while the Incidentally Good Stuff USAID does will be be eliminated. Despite his faux libertarian posturing, Musk, of course, doesn’t care about the anti-imperialist argument. He hates USAID because he thinks it helps keep black and brown people alive, which—by virtue of the US being a largely unipolar empire—it very much does, regardless of motives.

The Times, Washington Post and CNN were not alone in having a blasé attitude about DOGE in the run up to Trump taking office. As I noted at In These Times, many Democrats indulged the patently false “cost savings” premise, and made no effort to paint it as a far right coup on the liberal state—which it clearly was. Pod Saves America’s Tommy Vietor treated DOGE as a good-faith effort that was simply misguided, and establishment journalists frequently mocked or downplayed its potential to disrupt our government.

This is part of a much larger media regime that, above all, must assume good faith from those in power, no matter their past lies, far-right ideological beliefs, or brash and illegal behavior. Let us call it the “Inverse Power-Skepticism Principle, which can be seen here:"

columnblog.com/p/us-medias-cre

www.columnblog.comUS Media's Credulous Depiction of 'DOGE' as a Good Faith "Efficiency Panel" Has Aged PoorlyNew York Times, Washington Post, and CNN took a pathological liar with a clear ideological agenda at his word for the sole reason he’s rich and powerful.
#USA#Propaganda#Journalism
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Mojo ♻️

News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament. In a Senate submission, they claimed Foxtel pays “millions of dollars” in income tax, GST, and payroll tax—unlike their international competitors. However, Foxtel was actually paying zero income tax at the time. Lying to the Senate can result in imprisonment, but ‘contempt of Parliament’ laws are rarely enforced.

#NewsCorp #Foxtel #TaxDodging #Accountability #AusPol #MediaManipulation #CorporateGreed #Parliament #Transparency

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Michael West · News Corp lies to Parliament in lobbying putsch to change media laws - Michael WestRupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament and is liable to prosecution, not that government will enforce the law.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #HumanRights #Genocide #Media #News #Propaganda #Journalism #MediaManipulation: "In garish contrast to the clear identification of Russian barbarity in Ukraine, the passive voice is the preferred mode in Western reports of Israeli atrocities, making it harder to see who is doing what to whom, and in what circumstances. (“The lonely death of Gaza man with Down’s syndrome” was the initial headline of a BBC report on Israeli soldiers unleashing an attack dog on a disabled Palestinian and then leaving him to die.) The New York Times’ report on a grim landmark, the killing by Israel of thirty thousand Palestinians, overwhelmingly women and children, was headlined “Lives Ended in Gaza.” A more recent report on the Israeli regime of starvation by the Associated Press is titled “A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza.”

Unverified reports, eventually exposed as false, of beheaded Israeli babies were given prominence by journalists as well as the US President. They have together drawn a veil of silence over the multiple documented reports of rape and torture in Israeli prisons. An article in the Atlantic, presently edited by a former IDF operative and peddler of a notoriously false report about Iraq, could argue, even after the murder of thousands of children in Gaza, that “it is possible to kill children legally.”

Certainly, the Western media’s account of Israel’s “self-defense” yet again exposes the radical discrepancy between what is said by mainstream journalists in the West and what the rest of us see happening in the world. I cannot avoid a sense of deja vu, and an old question: is it still possible to enlarge cognitive capacity within the dwindling kingdom of Western journalism—the enchanted realm in which I have profitably spent most of my own life?"
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n+1 · The Last Days of Mankind | Pankaj MishraToday, the war on terror is widely accepted as a military and geopolitical failure. But it is still not fully understood as a massive intellectual and moral fiasco: an attempt by the Western media as well as the political class to forge reality itself, which failed catastrophically, but not without embedding cruelty and mendacity deep and enduringly in public life. And partly because this disaster was unacknowledged—editors and writers pushing false narratives, and cheerleading large-scale violence, remained entrenched, and even received promotions—it is being reenacted today in the Western media’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza: another war that has ignited a bonfire of international legal and moral norms and deadened and perverted consciences.
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Ms. Que Banh

Privatized ethnic cleansing by Israel.
Sponsored by USA.
Allies in Geopolitical Genocidal Evil Terrorism.

After a year of genocide, Israel is ready for the next stage: outsourcing the military occupation of Gaza to foreign firms. What can Palestinians expect in these so-called “gated communities”?

This is an #educational video for international audiences on #geopolitics of Zionist terrorism #MediaManipulation tactics.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUWqCow

Sourced from:
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#FreePalestine
#ColonialViolence
#EthnicCleansing
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#USAFundsTerrorism
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#Genocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#EvilUSA
#EvilIsrael
#ZionismIsACult
#Zionists
#Colonizers
#ConcentrationCamps
#LestWeForget
#NeverAgain
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#WarCriminals

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Ms. Que Banh

@AnnaAnthro
HRC is a vile disinformation org that creates false narratives & encourages targeted abuse/harassment of journalists. It is a well funded, pro Zionist/ethnostate pushing, censorship org at the core.

"Imagine if, instead of HonestReporting Canada, it was a white supremacist group targeting journalists and threatening newsrooms. Or picture a political party pushing for stories to be erased or rewritten because it did not like how its views were represented. Most of us would recognize this as an attack on journalistic independence, an effort to bend the media to their will. It does not matter whether the group in question is a white supremacist organization, a political party, or a “media watchdog” – the result is the same: a betrayal of the public’s right to the truth and an erosion of journalistic principles. 

HRC’s tactics have real consequences. The group has claimed responsibility for the firings of two Palestinian journalists, one of whom was on maternity leave at the time. These are not isolated incidents. This is a concerted effort to suppress dissenting voices and maintain a narrow narrative in Canadian media."

#CDNpoli#CanadianMedia#PressFreedom
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Ms. Que Banh

When it comes to #reporting on #NorthAmerica’s #OverdoseCrisis — the worst in our history — #misleading articles can increase #stigma against people who use #drugs, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire #BadFaith policy and make it more difficult for other #journalists to gain the trust and respect of #MarginalizedCommunities.

Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug #journalism from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that #decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs “made #Vancouver the #fentanyl capital of the world.”

The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other #misleading claims, including stating that #SafeSupply programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.

Reporting like this misses important context about the #DrugCrisis, allowing #politicians to drum up fear about #HarmReduction rather than confront how decades of #prohibition have impacted the current #FentanylCrisis. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on #opioids turned to heroin instead. Eventually, #DrugTraffickers began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle.

thestar.com/opinion/contributo

Toronto StarFearmongering about ‘drug dens’ is making Canada’s crisis worseBy Manisha Krishnan is an Emmy award-winning journalist who covers drug policy.
#CDNpoli#BCpoli#BreakTheStigma
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Chu 朱

I made the mistake of clicking on one so getting fed these types of stories non stop... This is #ClimateCrisis denialism

This is #MediaManipulation

Notice the victims are always perfect? They find perfect victims who have done nothing wrong, preferably a senior, a woman, someone with a disability. They garner sympathy and normalize car culture and fossil fuel burning. These types of stories are highly effective at making you think "oh, these poor people NEED" whatever privileges are being taken away.

This is part of the fight against #ClimateAction. There's nothing to criticize because these people have done nothing wrong per se. It's the injustice of a system against them. It's the injustice of the woke mob taking away a little old lady's ability to park her car.

This is how media manipulates us into #ClimateChange inaction. No matter what happens, there's a little old lady who did nothing wrong who will get hurt. They normalize all car behaviours and fossil fuel burning behavior.

This is part of the manipulation and it's highly effective. Recognize this and call it out.

the-sun.com/motors/8998259/cou

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E Rosalie

We must not grow complacent and ignore the predictable anti-vaccine moves following any death. While the debunking seems repetitive, repetition makes vaccine-hesitant parents more likely to become opposed.

Claims don't have to be rooted in facts to influence. The best thing we can do is challenge false claims swiftly while showing dishonest influencers' tactics.

Please don't stay silent. We face a movement that is funded by profiteers and private interests concerned with one thing: money. We can show that.

Don't allow people to claim that honest public health workers are questionable because they have jobs. That's not a coherent argument, and further, it is anti-vaccine groups that are unethically profiting. It's time to shine a light on that.

Case in point: the "died suddenly" mockumentary had nearly a dozen promotional links beneath it during its "premiere." How many ethical researchers do you know that do that?

Do not stay silent when people claim money is why we speak the truth. Tie the messengers to the money flowing from a handful of people, and learn from what is happening in Ukraine.

We see Russia accusing Ukraine of what Russia is doing. So, too, do anti-vaccine profiteers accuse public health workers of what they do: profiting from parental concern.

#antivax#vaccines#publichealth
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