sj_zero on Nostr: 1 of 17. The fraudulent media machine ever since 2016 The headlines read: "FBI in ...
1 of 17. The fraudulent media machine ever since 2016
The headlines read: "FBI in agreement with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House"
It's a headline that had lots of people very mad, resulted in multiple congressional investigations, and sent at least one member of Trump's campaign to jail.
But the problem is, the headline was totally fake.
By 2018, the author of the Steele dossier admitted the dossier was fake, created solely to help Hillary Clinton dispute the 2016 election. Ultimately, the Clinton Campaign was charged by the election commission with the illegal act and fined over $100,000.
This wasn’t a simple case of poor reporting; it was a deliberate push of disinformation.
The headlines read: "Trump On Charlottesville Neo-Nazis: 'You Had People That Were Very Fine People'"
It's a headline that had lots of people up in arms, lots of people ready to fight against Trump, ready to vote against Trump.
But the problem is, the headline was totally fake.
"And I don't mean neo nazis and white supremacists, those people should be condemned totally" - the actual words, the exact opposite of the story.
This is not up for debate—the transcript is there for anyone to read. The fact that this lie continues to circulate years later is nothing short of shameful.
The headline said: "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say"
It's a headline that had a lot of people up in arms, thinking that Donald Trump would produce something false like that, attacking family of a sitting president with made up information from a foreign power!
But the problem is, the headline was totally fake.
In the end, Hunter Biden was convicted of at least one crime as a result of the data on the laptop and ultimately it was proven to be real.
The media and social platforms actively interfered in the democratic process by burying a story that could have impacted the election, all based on a lie.
In the west, there's a story of "the boy who cried wolf". It's the story from our pastoral past, and a young boy who a couple times screamed "Wolf! Wolf!" and the village came to protect against the wolves, but the child was lying. Eventually, the child actually sees a wolf, scream and hoots and hollers, and is eaten by wolves. The lesson is that you must be very careful no to lie, because eventually people stop paying attention to you. The press kept on publishing stories that were false to help "their side", and chipped away at their credibility. Today, the establishment media is suffering because people stopped believing them.
The political establishment has responded by stepping up threats to violate the law of the land by "regulating misinformation and disinformation", which is in fact code for "shutting down any story we don't like". For all the politicians who call for such illegal laws who pushed the above disinformation, what punishment would they accept today for their transgressions? (I'm guessing none?)
This probably felt like the right thing to do to "fight Trump", but it's a strategy which is damaging the establishment media's ability to report, and importantly, it's reducing their power as a tool to help push elections in one direction or another.
This election cycle continued with these themes, with a statement that without Trump's proposed tariffs the a bloodbath in the auto industry being mischaracterized by the establishment media as a threat of political violence. In an election cycle where the press is pushing against other currents, they need credibility and keep spending it unwisely.
The headlines read: "FBI in agreement with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House"
It's a headline that had lots of people very mad, resulted in multiple congressional investigations, and sent at least one member of Trump's campaign to jail.
But the problem is, the headline was totally fake.
By 2018, the author of the Steele dossier admitted the dossier was fake, created solely to help Hillary Clinton dispute the 2016 election. Ultimately, the Clinton Campaign was charged by the election commission with the illegal act and fined over $100,000.
This wasn’t a simple case of poor reporting; it was a deliberate push of disinformation.
The headlines read: "Trump On Charlottesville Neo-Nazis: 'You Had People That Were Very Fine People'"
It's a headline that had lots of people up in arms, lots of people ready to fight against Trump, ready to vote against Trump.
But the problem is, the headline was totally fake.
"And I don't mean neo nazis and white supremacists, those people should be condemned totally" - the actual words, the exact opposite of the story.
This is not up for debate—the transcript is there for anyone to read. The fact that this lie continues to circulate years later is nothing short of shameful.
The headline said: "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say"
It's a headline that had a lot of people up in arms, thinking that Donald Trump would produce something false like that, attacking family of a sitting president with made up information from a foreign power!
But the problem is, the headline was totally fake.
In the end, Hunter Biden was convicted of at least one crime as a result of the data on the laptop and ultimately it was proven to be real.
The media and social platforms actively interfered in the democratic process by burying a story that could have impacted the election, all based on a lie.
In the west, there's a story of "the boy who cried wolf". It's the story from our pastoral past, and a young boy who a couple times screamed "Wolf! Wolf!" and the village came to protect against the wolves, but the child was lying. Eventually, the child actually sees a wolf, scream and hoots and hollers, and is eaten by wolves. The lesson is that you must be very careful no to lie, because eventually people stop paying attention to you. The press kept on publishing stories that were false to help "their side", and chipped away at their credibility. Today, the establishment media is suffering because people stopped believing them.
The political establishment has responded by stepping up threats to violate the law of the land by "regulating misinformation and disinformation", which is in fact code for "shutting down any story we don't like". For all the politicians who call for such illegal laws who pushed the above disinformation, what punishment would they accept today for their transgressions? (I'm guessing none?)
This probably felt like the right thing to do to "fight Trump", but it's a strategy which is damaging the establishment media's ability to report, and importantly, it's reducing their power as a tool to help push elections in one direction or another.
This election cycle continued with these themes, with a statement that without Trump's proposed tariffs the a bloodbath in the auto industry being mischaracterized by the establishment media as a threat of political violence. In an election cycle where the press is pushing against other currents, they need credibility and keep spending it unwisely.