Commentary The World Health Organization (WHO), and the growing pandemic preparedness industry sponsoring it, have faced considerable challenges in maintaining support for its COVID-19 response. It has addressed this difficult situation with simple and uniform messaging. The compliance thus achieved by WHO has been vital to the successful wealth concentration of the COVID-19 response, benefiting…
False Messaging Forever: The WHO’s Plan for the Future
CCP Uses Disinformation to Fuel Human Rights Abuses: Documentary Filmmaker
China leverages disinformation to inflame its repression of target groups, including the spiritual group Falun Gong, according to Peabody award-winning film director Jason Loftus. “Disinformation has been used to fuel atrocious human rights abuses like imprisonment and torture,” Loftus recently told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “It’s essentially a bully tactic of repressing people…
Operation Mockingbird Gets a Big Tech Makeover
Commentary In the late 1940s, as geopolitical tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began to heat up, the CIA launched Operation Mockingbird, a large-scale program that used news media for one purpose only: to disseminate as much propaganda as possible. According to award-winning author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird “owned” highly respected journalists…
Mainland Chinese Wish Founder of Falun Gong a Happy Birthday
On World Falun Dafa Day 2022 and the 71st birthday of Master Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong practitioners wished him a happy birthday and expressed their most sincere gratitude to Master Li from China. Many Chinese adherents look forward to Master Li returning to China as soon as possible, and the spirit of Truthfulness, Compassion, and…
Mainland Chinese Express Gratitude to Founder of Falun Gong on World Falun Dafa Day
On World Falun Dafa Day, Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China expressed their gratitude to the founder of the spiritual practice, Li Hongzhi. May 13 is World Falun Dafa Day, and also the birthday of Li. Li introduced the spiritual practice in China on May 13, 1992, and within two years it was practiced by tens…
Propaganda American Style
Commentary As with many things, propaganda can be used for good or for ill, depending on who dispenses it. During World War II, American propaganda was considered a necessary tool in the pursuit of victory in a moral cause. Germany and Japan had their own propaganda machines to advance an evil agenda. The Nazi propaganda…
China Using US Media to Spread Propaganda, Misinformation: Blinken
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using the United States’ free and open media platforms to spread state propaganda and misinformation, according to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken said U.S. leadership was “deeply concerned” about the CCP’s efforts to quash press freedoms in mainland China while simultaneously exploiting free media in other nations…
Putin’s Propaganda Problem
Commentary It might seem that Vladimir Putin doesn’t have a propaganda problem, at least at home. George Orwell presented a vision of the totalitarian future—based on what Stalin’s Russia was already like—in his 1949 dystopian novel “1984.” It’s a world where opposition can’t even be thought. In Orwell’s fictional world, Big Brother sees everything; all…
The New York Times, Left-Wing Propaganda Machine
Commentary The New York Times demonstrates why Gallup polling late last year showed only 36 percent of Americans saying they trust media a “great deal” or “fair” amount. Times reporters have brought fire to the feet of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, reporting on a recording of private remarks that McCarthy made to other Republicans…
Propaganda Images Used by Communist Regimes to Indoctrinate Masses
With hundreds of millions of images posted on the internet or published in media across the world, have you ever considered if what you’re looking at is something genuine or just another piece of propaganda? In the era of fake news, there are instances where images are carefully crafted to create a false impression and…
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