Propaganda

After Trump threw a tantrum over Twitter doing the bare-minimum to fact-check his deliberately misleading tweets, Trump announced plans to sign an Executive Order that forces social media to "protect" "free speech." Because government-approved top-down authoritarian control of private companies is apparently now a central tenet of the Republican Party.…

A map of population density in Tokyo, circa 1926, shows how maps splice and dice demographic data. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library All maps have biases. A new online exhibit explores the history of map distortions, from intentional propaganda to basic data literacy.This interview is adapted from the latest…

As its global image takes a big hit, the Chinese Communist Party is using an arsenal of spin, obfuscation, hyperbole, and outright disinformation to win back its reputation. Kathy Gilsinan May 28, 2020 Arsh Raziuddin / The AtlanticIt was posed as an innocent question, not an accusation. If the U.S.…

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, one of Donald Trump’s loudest cheerleaders, drew scorn on Wednesday for lavishing praise on the president as the nationwide death toll from the coronavirus passed 100,000. “He is arguably the greatest president in our history,” proclaimed Dobbs, whose sycophantic statement earned a thank-you tweet from…

Home | Wire | Coronavirus Propaganda Mimics War Propaganda 0 Views Tags Media and CultureWar and Foreign PolicyIn the period leading up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration and its media accomplices waged a relentless propaganda campaign to win political support for what turned out…

05.26.20 China has a confederate in its effort to deflect attention from its mishandling of the outbreak of COVID-19: U.S. media. American media cooperated by repeating uncritically Beijing’s reports that it bears no responsibility for the spread of COVID-19. In fact, China’s state-controlled television has made U.S. media reporting part…

If there was a moment during the coronavirus crisis when the Chinese Communist Party looked as if it was losing its grip, it came on the night of February 6th, as the ophthalmologist turned whistle-blower Li Wenliang lay dying in a Wuhan hospital. In a small act of bravery that…

Volkswagen has pulled a racist ad from its Instagram page, saying in a public apology Thursday that it will investigate why it was released with so many offensive undertones. The 10-second clip for the German car company’s new Volkswagen Golf model features a giant, white hand poking and prodding a…

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that Russian violations make it untenable for the U.S. to stay in a treaty that permits 30-plus nations to conduct observation flights over each other's territory, but he hinted it's possible the U.S. will reconsider the decision. The Open Skies Treaty that…

Skip Bayless, LeBron James and the four reasons why it's easier than ever to become rich and famous for being contrarian. May 21, 2020 14 min read Imagine if your local news station decided to hire two weather reporters. The first uses state-of-the-art technology to offer probabilities on storms, temperatures…