In the Substack piece, I discuss how photos lie, and captions exacerbate the fiction.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/an-instant-for-rage-bait?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #facts #truth #lies #media #outrage #ragebait #photography #news #context #ontology #epistemology #france #protest #unrest #ethics #fiction #news #studentprotests #immigration #policy #blog #substack

More than three years ago, Meta stopped making news available in Canada. This was in response to the country's Online News Act, which was designed to force tech giants to pay publishers. Instead, news platforms lost traffic and revenue, "shadow media" accounts that posted other outlets' reporting proliferated, and while Google agreed to pay publishers $100 million a year, the big winners were legacy media organizations. "If a small group of digital publishers like blogTO got screwed along the way, I suppose we were just collateral damage," writes Tim Shore, who founded the Toronto-based local news site in 2004.

https://flip.it/QYNcfG

#Media #Journalism #Canada

Want a Netflix-style library for your own media sources?

Nuvio is a free, open-source media app that brings your sources into a polished library with artwork, ratings, subtitles, profiles, and watch progress. It supports Android, iOS, desktop, Android TV, Samsung Tizen, and LG webOS, under GPL-3.0.

Nuvio doesn’t provide a content catalog you bring sources you’re authorized to access.

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/nuvio.html

#OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHosting #Media #FOSS #Nuvio

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McClatchy Media, owner of Pulitzer Prize-winning papers including the Miami Herald, Lexington Herald-Leader, and Sacramento Bee, laid off dozens of reporters last week. Now, it's positioning AI as the savior of its freefalling business, with CEO Tony Hunter telling journalists in a contentious, off-the-record town hall: “We have a company-wide effort to agentify the entire enterprise." Straight Arrow News says AI-generated content is already creeping in, with data indicating that in some recent months, the percentage hit 20% on some sites.

https://flip.it/fMSI64

#Media #LocalNews #AI

#GiftArticle

175 years. 15 million articles.
The #NewYorkTimes has recorded the #US’ transformation.
Its work will continue, writes A.G. Sulzberger.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #democracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/opinion/nyt-175-anniversary-sulzberger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVE.yE43.PcNVcU6V8Gta&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Kid just came home from school saying that CNN 10 (Education channel) interviewed someone from an AI company who warned that AI was going to destroy humanity and that it resisted all efforts by the company to turn it off.

JFC, I had to repeat my lesson on critical thinking.

I asked the obvious follow-up question... how did the AI prevent someone physically hitting the power button to the data center.

And... if they were so worried about it why dont they just close the company, stop paying the power bill, etc.

Or... I asked... do you think that the person from the AI company had an agenda in whipping up AI fear and maybe the media should have challenged their assertions a little bit?

#ai #aidoomsday #cnn10 #cnn #media #journalism

« FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with historian and author Dr. #AssalRad about the #media's role in the #GazaGenocide, and about her newly-published book on this topic, " #DontSayPalestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide." »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAbHmtS_5A
#Gaza #warOnGaza #Palestine #GazaCoverage #PalestineCoverage #MSM #WesternMedia #mediaCriticism #books @bookstodon

A quotation from Douglas Adams

Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology

speaking of obfuscating accountability…

https://mas.to/@gleick/117235964078408918

#journalism #media #ai #slopfondlers

If the firing isn't #censorship and chilling of #freespeech, I don't know what is.

Roque Planas: Judge refuses to block #Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes journalists. Ruling allows defense department to proceed for now in exerting greater editorial control over military news outlet.

#hegseth #media
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/judge-pentagon-stars-and-stripes

A quotation from Hugo Black

In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Hugo Black (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)
New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713, 717 (1971) (concurring)

More about this quote: wist.info/black-hugo/36400/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugoblack #scotus #censorship #firstamendment #fourthestate #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #journalism #media #meme #priorrestraint #SCOTUS #tyranny #watchdog

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The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. - Hugo Black

I'll have whatever the Wall Street Journal is smoking, because whooooo-eeee!

#JDVance #WSJ #media #GOP

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Real screengrab from the WSJ Opinion page, former home of articles praising the unredeemed Scrooge and advocating for Americans selling their kidneys legally. "JD Vance Is the GOP's Obama: He and the former president have much in common. And both disdain Republicans."

I'm sorry, but if you tell me I can find it on Tubi I have to whisper "Poob has it for you"

#poobHasIt #streaming #media

#LongReads pod welcomes #media critic #AdamJohnson to talk about his book, #HowToSellAGenocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of #Gaza, all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-how-us-media-whitewashed-the-gaza-genocide/id791564318?i=1000783185991

#GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #WesternMedia #USpol #mediaCriticism #MSM #books @bookstodon

Hey #media: If Natalie was able to decline getting a White House clearance and continued to work there, would you find who else doesn't have a clearance and is getting paid by me/us? Jared? Steven Cheung?

#USPol
#Corruption

The #WhiteHouse yesterday posted a personal attack against CNN’s #KristenHolmes, invoking her #children, after she asked #Trump a pointed question [doing her job].

The White House on Monday leveled a sharply personal attack against #CNN reporter Kristen Holmes after she asked Trump a pointed question during a news conference, crossing a barrier rarely breached by politicians to invoke her children.

#unfit #journalism #media #FourthEstate #misogyny #sexism #MafiaState
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/17/white-house-attacks-cnn-reporter-after-trump-clash-targets-her-children/

@collective_truth @RichardJMurphy @aral

Read the pinned post on my profile.

There are a few institutions that work in collusion to run people’s lives, and form the basis of the #Matrix.

1. #Schools
2. #Churches
3. #Governments
4. #Corporations
5. #Media
6. #Banks

Once I became a #whistleblower against the system, in 2023, #WellsFargo #bank would not give me my own money. They still have not.

( Details: https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/ )

It’s time for the biblical prophecy to come true, and the money lenders to be kicked out.

Here’s how:
https://rant.li/ashwin/visions-for-a-new-web

AlohaCoin v2 redistributes wealth, and brings about #degrowth

With full bellies, people have the courage to break free of the Matrix, and #disobey leaders. Political, religious, military, corporate leaders etc.

Little incentive for #crime, #war, #violence.

Please boost and spread the message!

Typical how many if not most news orgs phrase the killing of UnitedHleathcare A-hole Brian Thompson like a sad thing happened to an innocent "father of 2"

Seriously, Luigi did not kill him because he was such a great dad..

No wonder less and less people read this crap anymore

You know who you are

#media

We have to save each other from falling into the "Social" *Media* #loop...

(just #Media mostly without the actually building social or individual #trust between us etc etc)

We are just pushing #bad posts and #boosting without actually building on top of #Mastodon?

#software #mastodon #movement #movements #progressive #trust #people #progress

The latest from @eryanhaffner: "Our present preoccupation with living the Boy Who Cried Wolf's life forces me to write the same column every so often. This week's column is brought to you courtesy of revelations about President #Trump's secret plane swap forced by an Iranian threat." https://ofb.biz/sa1448

#AirForceOne #DOGE #media #press

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117079539362942787

#Media, if you've been holding off, you can call these people Nazis now.

#Fascism
#Violence

CITP Blog: Newsroom Guide for Authentication and Verification in the AI Age. “At our June workshop, organized jointly by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and NYU Journalism, participants shared a desire for a practical, short-form resource to help newsrooms understand the current landscape of authentication and verification tools for addressing AI-generated content. […]

Are there any good, conservative opinion writers left? I miss Krauthammer; I never wound up agreeing with him but it was good exercise to wrestle with a well-reasoned argument. I'd sort of hoped that a silver lining to the WaPo's fash turn would be smart right-leaning opinions but it's been disappointing, so bad that sometimes I wonder if what I'm reading is malicious compliance. Will is out, he uses his vocabulary to obscure his weak, often dishonest arguments #USPolitics #Media

"For generations, #Hollywood has been filled with #Jewish voices — but Jewish identity itself has often been portrayed through a limited lens. The familiar neurotic Jewish character who complains, worries or turns traditions into a punchline has become a recurring presence on screen. The humor is often brilliant, and self-deprecation is deeply rooted in Jewish culture, but #AllisonJosephs believes Hollywood has rarely explored another side: ordinary #Jews from all walks of life who are openly proud of and connected to their heritage.

#Josephs, a #writer, #producer and Jewish advocate, has spent nearly two decades working to change the way Jews are portrayed in #media. In 2007, she founded #JewintheCity, an organization created to challenge misconceptions about #Orthodox Jews through #storytelling. In 2021, she expanded that mission by launching the Jewish Institute for #Television & #Cinema (#JITC) Hollywood Bureau..."

https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/film/390875/beyond-the-nebbish-new-hollywood-initiative-seeks-to-transform-jewish-representation-on-screen/

@canderson

#1 reason why we came here on #Mastodon (or top 5 reasonsprobably ) are so we:

- find real community AND do our dreams with others

- find what is useful / mutually discover more

- use each other for the win against dark forces...

AND IF NOT THEN WE FAIL / DIE AS "REAL" LIFE DIGS IT'S HEALS INTO US DEEPER EACH DAY.

This means we fall in to the same bad #news / #mainstream "media" #LOOP: #fatigue / #media #depression / #feel useless / no chance to shine, serve ourself/ves...

David Ellison Should Never Own a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, because of course he shouldn't.

No one person, family or company should own so much news, media and entertainment.

But that didn't stop David Ellison from trying to convince us he should (and oddly making it clear he should not).

https://stuff.davidaugust.com/david-ellison-convinced-me-he-should-never-own-nor-control-a-combined-paramount-warner-bros-discovery/

#paramount #WarnerBrosDiscovery #wbd #psky #merger #monopoly #news #media #entertainment #movies #tv #film #television

"Starting Sunday in #EU, #AI #chatbots, receptionists, #media must reveal they are not human"

https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/02/starting-sunday-eu-ai-chatbots-receptionists-media-must-reveal-human

This is excellent

But:

Laws require enforcement

Or they are just feel-good declarations that rot the rule of law: a corpus of laws without bite means the law has no meaning. A dangerous precedent

So *how* do we fight AI. Especially on #socialMedia

You have to understand it's an existential threat. Not to #Mastodon/ #Fediverse, but *all* social media... all media

1/2

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an abstract image of "AI"

Lot of fedi commentary on #Australia's #RoyalCommission.

Pretty standard. Five testimonies about firebombing a #synagogue, being cut off from employment opportunities, harrassed in the street, or mass-fucking-murdered on #Bondibeach will get ignored. One person whining people were mean to them for wearing an #Israel pin proves their case against #antisemitism being real.

Things like the royal commission are huge tactical errors on the part of #Jewish #diaspora institutions. They're so stuck on these failed strategies they think doing the same shit harder bigger faster stronger will defeat antisemitism™.

It fuels it.

If the underlying #bigotry believes #Jews control #media, #government and whatever, then anything in the media or by the government, etc that demonstrates antisemitism proves the fucking #conspiracy to them... and the opposite also proves it. Magic!

#Socialmedia is an accelerant. Ya can't win playing a crooked fucking game.

Boomer anti-antisemitism = the wise men of Chelm.

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Once upon a time, an angel, carrying a sackful of foolish souls back to heaven for repair, snagged his sack on a tree growing on top of a tall mountain top. The sack tore and alas, all the poor, foolish souls spilled out of the ripped sack, rolled down the mountain side into the town of Chelm where they stayed from that day on. - The Wise Men of Helm and their Merry Tales by Solomon Simon Image: Jeffrey Allon, "The Wise Men of Chelm Capture the Moon", from the book Ten Traditional Jewish Children's Stories [a group of bearded men standing around a barrel with the moon's reflection in it mostly wearing Tevye caps, one in a Streimel]]

This is something that stems from the bulletin board system period.

When people started to Flame each other they were just banging at the keyboard

BBS flame wars

What happens now {last 20 years} is the same; they can only be horrific towards each other when banging at the keyboard.

I've been told that people in industrialized countries can be very lonely. Hundreds of them in a building but they are still lonely

Often that loneliness is portrayed in a negative manner on public internet forums by people who often live a miserable life. Some of them in the US many, can also not pay for the psychiatric care they need.

The end result is a mess of a comment section

@rl_dane

#Social #Media #SocialMedia #troll #reaction #any #good #YouTube #no #TV

"When #DanFreidus walks into #Bookstock, Metro #Detroit’s beloved used #book and #media sale, he is not just browsing for something interesting to #read. He is hunting for history, often tucked between stained pages, spiral bindings and #recipes for #kugel, #brisket or “Aunt Rose’s #mandelbread.”

For Dan, a longtime collector with deep roots in the world of #books, #Jewish community #cookbooks are more than kitchen guides. They are records of Jewish life: where people lived, what they ate, how they adapted, what organizations they built and how communities preserved memory through #food.

As a child, Dan’s father collected books, opening a door to a world Dan might otherwise never have encountered. “I met #librarians and #bookdealers through him that I never would have met,” he explained, “so I got a peek into that world when I was pretty young.”

That early exposure eventually grew into a wide-ranging passion for books and ephemera, and, over time, cookbooks."

https://www.thejewishnews.com/community/metro-detroit-collector-preserves-jewish-community-cookbooks-one-recipe-at-a-time/article_d80ce01c-0d5a-4abd-9ead-c2cd93579a61.html

Despite concerns about AI overviews, some nonprofit news outlets see a surge in search traffic, reports @niemanlab.

"In the second quarter of 2026, some nonprofit newsrooms saw their coverage of the primaries — especially voter guides — pay off in both interest and traffic."

https://flip.it/XYL6qZ

#AI #SEO #Media

After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire?

As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-tired-schtick/

#tech #elonmusk #artificialintelligence #politics #media #journalism

Don't miss out ... Catch up with everything we've published from the July/August 2026 issue of our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/july-august-2026/

#journalism #media #Texas #politics #education #USpol #news #law #police

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The July/August 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine features an illustration of a BIPOC boy in a classroom, holding a toy white school bus, while looking pensively out the window at barbed-wire festooned prison walls. Headline: The Texas School Arrests Crisis, How kids as young as 10 bear the burden of tough-on-crime policies, by Josephine Lee. Other headlines: An East Texas Love Letter by Dalyah Jones, The Houe That Youtube Built by Steven Monacelli.

The AI-authorship debate is bollox.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/human-factors-in-authorship

The LLM-versus-human debate has been raging for several years now, and there seem to be two principal camps: human exceptionalists and agnostics. I suppose there may also be a small, misanthropic faction, but its members are remarkably quiet.

#philosophy #blog #substack #podcast #pangram #authenticity #quality #facticity #dashboard #authorship #writing #publishing #media #language #llms #artificialintelligence #debate #exceptionalism

The #CBC just outright playing stenographer for OpenAI propaganda today. #AI #Media

An experienced YouTuber said the following

• When you published something on the Internet any reaction is a good reaction
• If someone attempts to troll you shower them with love and affection
• Trolls hate Love and will run back under their Bridge
• If someone reacts extremely negative see rule number one and silently thank them

The fact that a person reacts to something written by someone thousands of nautical miles away is a feat which should be cherished

@rl_dane

#Social #Media #SocialMedia #troll #reaction #any #good #YouTube #no #TV

More on that Blue Square poll/survey...

"More #Americans say questioning the #Holocaust is not #antisemitic and express agreement with anti-#Jewish stereotypes, according to a survey the #BlueSquareAlliance Against Hate released on Thursday.

The #poll of 7,053 #US adults, conducted from March 4 to April 3, found that 32% of respondents said they do not believe questioning the Holocaust is antisemitic, up from 26% in August 2025.

The #survey’s margin of sampling error is ±0.92 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

Agreement with all 10 antisemitic #tropes tracked by the survey—including claims that #Jews control #Hollywood and the #media or are more loyal to #Israel than the #UnitedStates—also increased since summer 2025. The rise in agreement with individual statements ranged from 12% to 38%, according to the survey."

https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/more-americans-reject-link-between-holocaust-denial-antisemitism-as-anti-jewish-attitudes-rise-survey

#RadioWarNerd welcomes #AdamJohnson to talk about his new book #HowToSellAGenocide: The #Media's Complicity in the Destruction of #Gaza, all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-rerbx-2f7ac4c4
#GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #USpol #mediaCriticism #MSM #books @bookstodon

Tonkatsu Box is a free, open-source media collection manager that lets you organize games, movies, TV shows, anime, manga, books, comics, and more in one place.

It stores your library locally, works offline after setup, supports local network sync, and can import data from Steam, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, and other services.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=tonkatsubox

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Media #Gaming #Anime #Privacy

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Screenshot of the Tonkatsu Box project page in dark mode. The top shows the Tonkatsu Box logo and the tagline: "Your personal collection manager for games, movies, TV shows, anime, visual novels, and manga." Below are platform badges for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and Rustore, followed by badges indicating passing tests, MIT license, Flutter support, and a Discord community. The layout highlights Tonkatsu Box as a cross-platform, open-source media collection manager.

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #RobinAndersen, author of #TheComplicitLens

"We discuss in depth the ways that the New York Times, CNN, and other #legacyMedia outlets became little more than Israeli propaganda organs, uncritically feeding IDF narratives, images, and self-declared expertise while not only discrediting Palestinian voices, but also becoming complicit with #Israel’s policy of censorship by murder"

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19421753-the-journalistic-malpractice-that-fueled-a-genocide-robin-andersen-on-complicit-lens
#Gaza #Palestine #mediaCriticism #media #books @bookstodon

ICYMI: Ten European media groups launch ad marketplace against 80% Google grip: Ten founding partners pool inventory and telco data as platforms capture 90% of Europe's ad growth, per the coalition. A September 2026 pilot tests demand. https://ppc.land/ten-european-media-groups-launch-ad-marketplace-against-80-google-grip/ #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #AdTech #Media #Google

"Users can also pick from 17 main characters, including strong female lead, cute kid, underdog, ultra-rich tycoon, switched-at-birth heiress, female emperor, doppelgänger love interest, enemies-to-lovers."

Lavender Au for The Dial: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/chinese-micro-dramas

#Longreads #China #Drama #Video #Storytelling #Content #AI #Media

"In recent years, the Signal messaging app has become a newsroom staple, enabling journalists, colleagues, sources, and others to speak to one another securely with end-to-end encryption. This means no one except those in conversation — not even the service provider — can read your messages or listen in on your calls. Journalists use it individually, and we also see a trend toward using organizational Signal tiplines.

But it’s important to understand this is not a ”set it and forget it” decision. When talking to sensitive contacts, you do need to maintain your account to ensure it is safe and does not fall into the wrong hands.

Imagine if someone took over your Signal account. They could impersonate you, causing reputational damage, or worse, putting sources at risk. Unfortunately, this is not a hypothetical. We have seen at least one public example (and some less public) where newsrooms have lost access to Signal identifiers, sometimes leading to abuse.

There are a few simple things journalists can do to maximize the safety of their Signal account."

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-account-safety/

#Messaging #Signal #Privacy #Surveillance #Encryption #PrressFreedom #Journalism #Media

"Johnson argues that the #liberalMedia took upon itself the task of dulling the outrage of ordinary news consumers and making #Israel’s slaughter seem understandable or unavoidable and thus not too objectionable [...]

"The focus on the 'liberal' #media is essential. Genocide support from right-wing media is a given; liberal buy-in is essential for genocide to become normalized."

Ida Audeh reviews #AdamJohnson's #HowToSellAGenocide

https://countercurrents.org/2026/07/manufacturing-consent-for-genocide-adam-h-johnsons-indictment-of-the-liberal-media/
#Gaza #Palestine #books @bookstodon

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cover of book: HOW TO SELL A GENOCIDE: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza Adam H. Johnson image (photo, at top): Biden meeting with Netanyahu on July 25, 2024 (Getty Images)

As #Trump rebrands DC festivities as a "spectacular Trump rally," broadcasters should look elsewhere to celebrate the #UnitedStates’ 250th.

As with so much in DC, Trump took over. His effort to rebrand the Washington, DC, events, provides #media & #news outlets an opportunity to instead look around the rest of the country — so do it.

Ignore the Trump rally.

As an example, PBS will turn to Williamsburg, Virginia, instead of DC.

#journalism #FourthEstate #propaganda
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/politics/america-250-july-4-national-mall-trump-analysis

"Has #WesternMedia helped normalise #Israel’s violence against #Palestinians? And how has US corporate and legacy #media coverage of the #genocideInGaza over the last two and a half years shaped public attitudes and political decisions? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks to journalist #AdamJohnson, author of the new book #HowToSellAGenocide."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQYdNxQXLc
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaGenocide #GazaCoverage #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #MSM #mediaCriticism #books @bookstodon

There was a terrible event in #WWII in #Saipan where as American troops advanced the Japanese civilians committed mass suicide. They believed due to #propaganda that the Americans would be monstruously cruel

Here we see a similar sentiment as #Ukraine captures #Russia's troops

Traditional #media and #socialMedia lies lead to this

Pointless #war and stupid #projection of one's own malice

It's why the lies we see can't just be dismissed. They are rat poison. They must be fought

#UkraineWar

Mainstream Media is Already Lying About Age Verification

It took one day for the word to get out about a forthcoming age verification bill and the lies are already being published.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-is-already-lying-about-age-verification/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #Canada #journalism #Media #NationalPost #SocialMedia

#CitationsNeeded pod's Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson have a live convo @ Brooklyn's Word is Change bookstore about Adam's new book, "#HowToSellAGenocide: The #Media's Complicity in the Destruction of #Gaza," all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/live-show-how-to-sell-a-genocide-book-talk-at-the-word-is-change-bookstore-in-brooklyn-ny

#GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #WesternMedia #mediaCriticism #mediaRacism #MSM #liberalHypocrisy #mediaShitlibs #shitlibbingForGenocide #books @bookstodon

Most events advertised by media and government are fiction. What you see on the Internet and TV is not real. What experts, foundations, agencies, governments, and nonprofits say is never the truth. None of it is real. It is all agitprop. It is all agenda-driven manipulation. None of it has ever been real. There is always an angle or agenda behind the way the information is presented. Those images and sounds and slogans and speeches are NOT reality. It is a false reality offered for you to buy into.

Reality is between you and your neighbor. How you treat your neighbor ... whether or not you treat your neighbor as equal in dignity and rights ... or whether or not you use your fears of government stories as an excuse to hate and abuse your neighbor ... which is why they give you their stories in the first place. By stoking division they can rule you, fleece you, control you, and profit from you.

In the Game of Thrones the Tyrion character was used to tell us who rules:

"What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? No. It’s stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story than Bran the Broken? The boy who fell from a high tower and lived… He's our memory. The keeper of all our stories. The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines, our triumphs, our defeats, our past. Who better to lead us into the future?"

When you believe someone's stories, that person rules over you. The person who crafts the stories that you take for reality has control of your mind and your life. Whoever crafts your reality is your master. They keep ramping up the anxiety to stunt critical thinking and invoke emotional responses and emotional investment in narratives crafted to steer people into doing their bidding.

#Propaganda #Media #News #Politics #Religion #GameOfThrones

@infostorm@a.gup.pe