"Manufacturing Consent" identifies five filters of a propaganda model for controlling populations in modern society, i.e., concentration of media ownership, influence of advertising as a revenue model, the reliance on authoritative sources to define the narrative, flak as a means of limiting the range of discourse, and fear of "radical Islam", "communists" or any other … Continue reading Network Distribution of Propaganda
Month: February 2017
Be Seeing You, Facebook
tl;dr: I have decided to delete my Facebook account. To use Facebook is to consent to being spied upon and manipulated. To quote from the television show, The Prisoner: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!" Join me, and quit Facebook today. (1175 words) "In … Continue reading Be Seeing You, Facebook
