Mark Twain said, “If you don’t read the paper, you are uninformed. If you read the paper, you are misinformed.”
Bill board on freeway in San Antonio. “99.5% of COVID deaths in Texas on 2021 were unvaccinated...”
Perpetrators of such disinformation should be in prison.
Glenn Greenwald
Former Intelligence Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big Tech Monopoly Power is Vital to National Security
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/former-intelligence-officials-citing?s=w
Clapper and Panetta are among them.
Media propaganda is evolving.
Centuries ago, in the press in particular, it was basically about what you chose to write about. Whether in support of something, or to oppose.
Simultaneously, omission was employed, but early on more as a factor of human nature that any publisher is not going to pick up the torch of a cause or topic they disagree with. But eventually, that evolved more and more into a deliberate strategy as well. The news media, including radio and TV, have been doing that for decades, whilst projecting an facade of objectivity.
Lately, the goal is to silence and censor information. Not just what you would chose to omit, but to block others as well. This is what “social media” has been doing for the last decade, but don’t let the old media be so jealous. They want a piece of that action too! Labeling other people’s or other publisher’s information as “misinformation” is all about information warfare.
Well disinformation sounds just like the dems/msm and those that believe them are misonformed.
Musk-accomplishes-more-for-free-speech-in-one-afternoon-than-republicans-have-in-decades!
WORLD—According to sources, an eccentric immigrant entrepreneur from South Africa just accomplished more for free speech than Republicans have in decades of controlling the government, wielding Federal power, and spending trillions of dollars.
“Wow! Who is this guy? He’s really making us look bad here,” said one Republican Senator. “This Twitter deal is such a huge step forward for freedom of expression! Wow! Imagine if other conservative wealthy people did stuff like that instead of funding our reelection campaigns? Um, wait—I didn’t mean that. Scratch that. Are you recording this?”
“Man, why didn’t I think of doing something like that?” said the Republican Senator. “If you vote for me, I’ll form a committee after the election season to explore the reasons we didn’t think of that!”
Looks like there is a rash of cautionary, deep thinkers who are piling on about not trusting Musk. Can he be any worse than the managers of the company are now? And the difference with him is that he has been/will be lynched. That is what happens now when you stick your neck out.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4058380/posts?page=7#7
#7 posted on 4/27/2022, 9:59:41 AM by odawg
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There is a platform with no rules and where there is total freedom of expression for everybody. and it seems everyone on the globe has been accessing it for years and been much better off for it. It’s called the internet that has every form of information, misinformation, bots, ridicule, hate speech, virtue signaling, helpful and unhelpful advice, etc. and the amazing thing is that everyone keeps coming back...that is, except to CNN+ which is proof most people, without help from a censor with an agenda, can distinguish fact from fiction. Wonder if those who oppose Elon’s free speech absolutism would also advocate shutting down the internet. I would love to hear the book burners’ arguments for shutting it down. No, not you, President Xi.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4058380/posts?page=11#11
11 posted on 4/27/2022, 10:04:18 AM by chuckee
I thought the far left assigned foreign “fart checkers” to do this for us.