Daily Archives: May 3, 2022

2022-05-03: News Headlines

____ (2022-05-02). An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm. transcend.org 25 Apr 2022 – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Old Propaganda, New Cold War…

_____ (2022-05-02). The NATO To TikTok Pipeline. popularresistance.org Culver City, California — As the bloody conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, so does the online propaganda war between Russia and the West. A prime example of this is the White House directly briefing influencers on popular social media app TikTok about the war and how to cover it. As the crisis spirals out of control, Americans have turned to TikTok to view real time videos and analysis of the invasion. With the app estimated to have around 70 million U.S. users, the White House is keenly aware of its impact. "We recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the American public is findin…

Ann Brown (2022-05-02). Fact Check: Joe Biden Set Up A 'Ministry Of Truth' Within Department Of Homeland Security To Police Information Online. moguldom.com President Joe Biden wants to fight the spread of lies and he has approved a disinformation board group to operate within the Department of Homeland Security that will monitor information spread via the internet. The board has already been compared to George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth" — a fictional department in the dystopian novel "1984" in which …

Editor (2022-05-02). Everyone's anti-war until the war propaganda starts. mronline.org Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they're spouting the slogans they've been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they've been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.

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