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Lamenting Germany’s WW1 defeat at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, Joseph Goebbels acknowledges a hard lesson learned: “While the enemy states produced unprecedented atrocity propaganda aimed at Germany throughout the whole world, we did nothing and were completely defenseless against it…Just as we were militarily and economically unprepared for the war, so also with propaganda. We lost the war in this area more than in any other. The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the...

A sweeping new study published in the journal Science has found that false or misleading stories spread faster and farther than the truth on social media. The researchers also conclude that the problem is not automated bots or ill-intentioned hackers, but the emotion-clouded minds of everyday users. The study, highlighted this week in The Atlantic, surveyed the spread of 126,000 news stories, including both true accounts and false “rumor cascades,” on Twitter between September 2006 and...

Another detailed account.Conclusion. This is nuts. Last August, when the Hamilton 68 project was first released, the Nation was the only site critical of it. It predicted: The import of GMF's project is clear: Reporting on anything that might put the US in a bad light is now tantamount to spreading Russian propaganda. It is now even worse than that. The top ranking of the #merrychristmas hashtag shows that the algorithm does not even care about good or bad news. The tracked twitter...

The reaction of the Western media is a subset of the reaction of Western governments losing their monopoly as a consequence of globalization. Global Inequality“Fake news”: reaction to the end of the monopoly on the narrative Branko Milanovic | Visiting Presidential Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and formerly lead economist in the World Bank's research department and senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for...

“Fake news” is certainly something to worry about when it emanates from foreign adversaries, but it is at least as concerning and threatening, if not more so, when emanating from one’s own governments and media. And there are countless, highly significant examples beyond today’s of such propaganda that emanates from within.... The Intercept Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia? Glenn Greenwald See also AntiMediaThe US Now...

Simonyan nails it, again.Simonyan nails it, again. Russia InsiderHead of RT: American Media is Completely Fake - Even Your President Agrees (Video)Leo Standish

Setting the record straight on the fake news about the White Helmets and suppression of dissent.Renegade NewsThe Guardian, White Helmets, and silenced comment Tim Hayward | Professor of Environmental Political Theory at At Edinburgh University and founding Director of the Just World Institute and the Ethics Forum. He is a founding member of the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought

I’m late to Zeynep Tufekci’s excellent Twitter and Teargas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. It analyses the impact of social media on political events such as the Arab Spring – remember that? – and Occupy. Her thesis is that online organization is a powerful political tool when combined with offline organization, but cannot substitute for it; and the evidence presented here from a range of mass protests certainly convinces me. The problem mass socially-networked protests have...

Don't believe everything you see. RTThese fake images of ‘Iran’ are being shared on social media

Deep state plot outed.Consortium News The Scary Void Inside Russia-gate Stephen F. Cohen The Foundering Russia-gate ‘Scandal’ Robert Parry Protecting the Shaky Russia-gate Narrative Robert Parry Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections Robert Parry Sucking Liberals into a New Cold War William Blum Russia-gate’s Reach into Journalism Dennis J. Bernstein Sic Semper TyrannisFake News, Sedition and Public Apathy Your Trump Dossier Cheat Sheet Publius TacitusIrrussianalityThe latest...