Propaganda

Earlier this week, 11 local broadcasters were caught airing “news” segments that were actually advertisements praising Amazon’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Experts say the ads—which featured an Amazon PR rep pretending to be a reporter—not only violated the law, but are a shining example of how media consolidation is…

The new religious freedom adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development once called Islam a “barbaric cult” and shared a meme that said people should be forced to eat bacon before purchasing a gun, among other racist posts. Those sentiments are dangerous, and he needs to step down, several…

A group of cartoonists painting walls as part of a COVID-19 awareness campaign organised by the Kerala Social Security Mission and Kerala Cartoon Academy at Caltex Junction in Kannur on Thursday.   | Photo Credit: S.K. MOHAN The sentinel surveillance studies conducted in Kerala so far have given “good results”,…

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…