Americans’ confidence in newspapers and television news has plummeted to an all-time low, according to the latest annual Gallup survey of trust in U.S. institutions. A 2021 poll from Pew Research Center found that Republicans are far less likely to trust media sources that are considered “mainstream.” Details: Television news is today considered the second-least …
Category: Fake news
Jul 22
“Former” FBI agents control “content moderation” at Twitter
Here AntiWar.com’s Scott Horton talks with Alan MacLeod about the surprising number of former FBI agents who have joined the content moderation department at Twitter. Remember during the Obama Administration when Facebook’s and Twitter’s CEOs and execs visited and had meetings in the White House dozens of times? (Some reports said hundreds of times.) And …
Apr 13
CNN spent $400 million promoting a new pay-for-news pro-government “CNN Plus” streaming network. Just 10,000 people subscribed.
CNN–the greatest contemporary embodiment of “mainstream” news–has spent the past year, and some $400 million, launching “CNN Plus.” But just 10,000 viewers weekly have subscribed to the new channel. Viewers just won’t pay to watch worn-out, pro-government propaganda. According to Alex Jones of Infowars, the smallest radio station in a small town generally has over …
Apr 13
Rumble receives emails from “news” organizations demanding that Rumble censor “disinfo” (as determined by governments)
Globally the strongest demands for censorship are now coming from “journalists” and “mainstream” (government supporting and supported) news sources. Now the Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest newspaper, is demanding that rising video platform Rumble.com begin censoring government-unapproved content in the same way that Youtube, Google, Facebook and Twitter have done. Youtube now deletes and prohibits …
Mar 05
In 1878 French government investors paid every French newspaper to promote construction of the Panama Canal
From the book “Famous Financial Fiascos” by John Train (1985): The western world’s elites first began pondering the development of a canal across the Isthmas of Panama in the 1880s. It was the French government that initiated the project. (Later, the US government took the lead in the decades-long project.) Train writes that the leading …
Feb 21
CDC promotes mask study with claims it proved masks work. But fine print says “Not statistically significant.” And underlying data show masks provide NO protection at all!
Imagine a study of people’s self-reported mask compliance compared to the same people’s rates of positive test reports. You can imagine that those who “test positive” for COVID-19 are likely to come up with an explanation of how they might have contracted the dreaded germ. Perhaps they might say they failed to properly social distance, …
Jan 02
Government-supporting media sources are struggling to maintain their “mass formation psychosis” in the wake of Dr. Malone interview
The phrase “mass formation psychosis” was widely searched for after the eminent Dr. Robert Malone was interviewed on the widely watched Joe Rogan podcast. Malone said that Twitter and other social media sites permanently deleted him due to “horizontal” collusion between all mainstream media and government information sources. Malone, the inventor of Mrna technology and …
Dec 22
Alex Berenson was banned from social media for saying COVID vaxx injuries were 50 times greater than flu vaxx injuries. The figure is now 88 times!
Alex Berenson was banned from social media for saying COVID vaxx injuries were 50 times greater than flu vaxx injuries. The figure is now 88 times! Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Google and Facebook all impose mass censorship of anti-government opinions and information. There is increasing evidence that this pro-government censorship agenda is secretly paid for or …
Dec 18
More evidence that social media censorship is paid and promoted by the government
PJ Media reports that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “is working with the social media giants to combat “misinformation,” which all too often recently has come to mean “dissent from the establishment political and media line.” What about the First Amendment? They’re working on ways to get around it.” Brad Stone, senior executive editor for …
Jan 08
Government-supporting “mainstream” journalism continues to lose readership
So-called “mainstream” news–news which supports (and is supported by) the state–has been losing market share compared to independent journalism for years. Readers won’t pay to consume pro-government propaganda. 2020 saw a 200% increase in the number of lost journalism jobs, compared to 2019. “Across broadcast, digital and print news, the news industry was hit with …