{"id":272668,"date":"2023-08-27T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272668"},"modified":"2023-08-29T05:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T05:27:09","slug":"information-designed-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272668","title":{"rendered":"“Information Designed To Show …”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 Aug 26, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Yesterday CNN<\/em> published another Russiagate like nonsense story:<\/p>\n

Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners<\/a><\/p>\n

Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and unwitting US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Johnstone takes it apart:<\/p>\n

Another Day, Another CIA Press Release Disguised As News<\/a><\/p>\n

She concludes:<\/p>\n

One of the craziest things happening in our world today is how westerners are being trained to overlook the massive amounts of western propaganda they\u2019re inundated with day in and day out<\/strong> and focus instead on \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d, which has no meaningful existence<\/em> in the west. In 2017 before RT was shut down in the UK, it accounted for 0.04 percent<\/a> of the UK\u2019s total TV audience. A New York University study published earlier this year found<\/a> that the supposed Russian Twitter influence campaign ahead of the 2016 election which dominated headlines for years had had \u201cno measurable impact in changing minds or influencing voter behavior\u201d. An earlier study found<\/a> that suspected Russian accounts showing up in Facebook\u2019s news feed during that time amounted to \u201capproximately 1 out of 23,000 pieces of content.\u201d A study by Adelaide University found<\/a> that despite headline after headline warning us about a massive wave of Russian bots manipulating online discourse after the invasion of Ukraine began last year, the overwhelming majority of fake accounts they examined (more than 90 percent) were pro-Ukraine accounts.<\/p>\n

Contrast this microscopic smattering of influence with the fact that westerners are continually getting their news reporting from western propaganda outlets which openly publish CIA press releases disguised as news on a regular basis. These people are absolutely telling us the truth when they say we\u2019re under constant bombardment by propaganda and influence operations\u200a\u2014\u200athey\u2019re just lying about who\u2019s really doing it to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CNN<\/em> was not the only outlet that plugged the stupid CIA press release. The New York Times<\/em> had it too and its report is a bit more revealing:<\/p>\n

Russia Pushes Long-Term Influence Operations Aimed at the U.S. and Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

Reading through the stupid disinformation stuff one stumbles over this sentence:<\/p>\n

Cont. reading: “Information Designed To Show …” <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama on how the western public is being drip-fed massive amounts of anti-Russian disinformation disguised as news <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272669,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272668\/revisions\/272669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}