Information Control For Social Manipulation

In recent years, numerous celebrities and other public figures have been raked over the coals for what they’ve said on virtual communication networks. In many cases, voicing unpopular opinions can end a high-profile person's career. But what about ordinary people who are just sharing their political views online with their friends and…
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AI Censorship: Here’s What Chatbots Won’t Tell You Gizmodo reported: When OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, it may not have realized it was setting a company spokesperson loose on the internet. ChatGPT’s billions of conversations reflected directly on the company, and OpenAI quickly threw up guardrails on what the chatbot could say.…
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The word “petrodollar” doesn’t come up as much as it did before the turn of the century. However, it’s important to understand the petrodollar system because it explains how the U.S. dollar was able to retain its global reserve currency status even after defaulting on the gold standard. What is the petrodollar? The term…
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In addition to the weather modification, militaries around the world are also routinely dispersing tiny bits of aluminum-coated fiberglass and plastic — known as “chaff” — into the air, to shield aircraft and ships from enemy radar. Not surprisingly, this has been done for decades, without clear evidence if it’s safe for humans and the…
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Normally when there is a school shooter, the media goes on and on about the right-wing gun nut who killed the kids. We learn all about him and his politically incorrect ideas and associations. No stone in his life is left unturned. But if the shooter is not a rightwing gun nut, we hear nothing about it. Moreover, as Glenn Greenwald points…
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The Media Reform Coalition (MRC) has published a new edition of its flagship Who Owns the UK Media? report. This is their fifth study on media ownership in the United Kingdom, which covers data for the period starting with March 2021. According to MRC, the report highlights the dangerous levels of concentrated ownership across the UK’s…
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It used to be a truth universally acknowledged by citizens of democratic nations that freedom of speech was the basis not just of democracy, but of all human rights. When a person or group can censor the speech of others, there is – by definition – an imbalance of power. Those exercising the power can decide what information and…
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Internal emails show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is collecting personal data that might otherwise require a court order — including expecting parents’ posts about pregnancy on websites like BabyCenter. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) premier law enforcement agency monitors expecting parents’ online…
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The United Nations Peacekeeping division has launched a program to recruit a "digital army" of young people whose job it will be to detect "false information" online and replace it with "real facts." Known as Kinshasa, the program was designed to appeal to people like Blessing Kasasi, a 15-year-old "women's and children's rights…
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Western governments are introducing laws to ban disinformation and misinformation that seek to criminalize a writer’s intention and outlaw meanings that contradict government narratives. But the media repetition of official truths — often itself disinformation — is becoming meaningless noise. Laws to ban disinformation and…
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