Media Manipulation
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: Media Manipulation
The above or "This" is "extremely dangerous to Our democracy".
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: Media Manipulation
Someone wrote:
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The Telegraph published a story detailing the devastation caused by attacks on civilian targets across Iran, but made substantial edits after a post on X expressing surprise at the directness of the reporting was shared thousands of times.
The original introduction to the article read: " aircraft bombed hospitals, residential buildings and schools across Tehran on Tuesday in what residents described as ‘an apocalypse’.”
But the paper rewrote the introduction after journalist Owen Jones quoted the article in a post on X, pointing out that it was unusual for a “rightwing, pro-war” outlet to cover military aggression in this way.
The newly edited article begins: “Bombs have struck hospitals, schools and residential buildings in some of the heaviest strikes on Tehran since the war began.”
Another paragraph in the original article said: “Millions of civilians are trapped under relentless bombardment as food and medical supplies dwindle and the death toll mounts.”
The new version of this sentence does not reference civilians and has been moved lower down the article. It reads: “Millions remain trapped in Tehran, a city under sustained aerial assault.”
The Telegraph’s decision to name the attackers so directly as the perpetrators of attacks against civilians set it apart from many mainstream outlets, which have been accused of repeatedly obscuring the role of the two countries in committing atrocities in another place.
“Wow. This is the rightwing, pro-war Daily Telegraph,” Jones wrote on X, before quoting from the original opening paragraph.
The Telegraph did not respond to Novara Media’s questions about why the article had been edited and has not flagged the changes to readers on its website.
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The Telegraph published a story detailing the devastation caused by attacks on civilian targets across Iran, but made substantial edits after a post on X expressing surprise at the directness of the reporting was shared thousands of times.
The original introduction to the article read: " aircraft bombed hospitals, residential buildings and schools across Tehran on Tuesday in what residents described as ‘an apocalypse’.”
But the paper rewrote the introduction after journalist Owen Jones quoted the article in a post on X, pointing out that it was unusual for a “rightwing, pro-war” outlet to cover military aggression in this way.
The newly edited article begins: “Bombs have struck hospitals, schools and residential buildings in some of the heaviest strikes on Tehran since the war began.”
Another paragraph in the original article said: “Millions of civilians are trapped under relentless bombardment as food and medical supplies dwindle and the death toll mounts.”
The new version of this sentence does not reference civilians and has been moved lower down the article. It reads: “Millions remain trapped in Tehran, a city under sustained aerial assault.”
The Telegraph’s decision to name the attackers so directly as the perpetrators of attacks against civilians set it apart from many mainstream outlets, which have been accused of repeatedly obscuring the role of the two countries in committing atrocities in another place.
“Wow. This is the rightwing, pro-war Daily Telegraph,” Jones wrote on X, before quoting from the original opening paragraph.
The Telegraph did not respond to Novara Media’s questions about why the article had been edited and has not flagged the changes to readers on its website.
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: Media Manipulation
The double standards are so maddening and sickening:
https://yt3.ggpht.com/JXqXFWZ_6ZGH2K9vB ... 6-rw-nd-v1
https://yt3.ggpht.com/c-s-LZDyLSjxiXLT8 ... d-rw-nd-v1
https://yt3.ggpht.com/JH-uhCwn93-MehPiT ... 3-rw-nd-v1
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Both she and Chomps are working for the bad guys while spending years pretending they are not just plants.
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Wow, on every level? Weird, incomprehensible plots to cause harm.
https://yt3.ggpht.com/JXqXFWZ_6ZGH2K9vB ... 6-rw-nd-v1
https://yt3.ggpht.com/c-s-LZDyLSjxiXLT8 ... d-rw-nd-v1
https://yt3.ggpht.com/JH-uhCwn93-MehPiT ... 3-rw-nd-v1
Removed
Both she and Chomps are working for the bad guys while spending years pretending they are not just plants.
Removed
Wow, on every level? Weird, incomprehensible plots to cause harm.
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Media Manipulation
I noticed the Guardian kept reporting 'Fresh Strikes' from Israel against Iran. It annoyed me the use of the word fresh in this context of the exact opposite - death and destruction. Fresh denotes (okay, close proximity to) life. I guess the weapons did for a while indead have close proximity to life, the moment before extinguishing it. Hopefully the fresh fruit and vegetables won't come laced with arsenic to mimic this new definition of fresh. It seems to be a clear case of wanting to spin positivity into the story.
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atreestump
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Media Manipulation
Fresh implies desirable. Nobody wants 'rotten strikes'.
A video about how language controls is, a theme we will be following up over time here on IA.
https://youtu.be/GFrXhBhzx0A?si=QG0rRmWM_p1NH4Gs
A video about how language controls is, a theme we will be following up over time here on IA.
https://youtu.be/GFrXhBhzx0A?si=QG0rRmWM_p1NH4Gs
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: Media Manipulation
That was a good (but horrific) one you noticed! Tricky! Great observation, genius really, right up my alley.
Even the positively associated "fresh" food is dead and rotting rapidly, and about to be destroyed or decomposers, so one way or another, do that double-speak trickery was even at play regarding our most frequent uses and associations with that adjective or descriptor.
Even the positively associated "fresh" food is dead and rotting rapidly, and about to be destroyed or decomposers, so one way or another, do that double-speak trickery was even at play regarding our most frequent uses and associations with that adjective or descriptor.
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: Media Manipulation
I noticed something really strange just now.
First of all, YouTube has become one of the major news dissemination and propaganda propagation sources worldwide for certain age groups that are more annoyed with TikTok, but fewer and fewer people have access to television broadcasts except through clips on YouTube, where they aldo find everything else in one place.
Recently a big burnout has been occurring around the world as access has become more universal and ubiquitous overall every year.
Part of that is the constant stressors.
I noticed that, and this is probably the case for a lot of people, I open lots of videos of interest, and this is more of a recent thing where they started ignoring my original setting not to send me personalized search results, but they are now doing that anyway which has increased how much I see that looks of potential interest, but I don't get to most of the videos which become too many too quickly which are opened, and I can't find those of more interest in the browsers which don't show what is on the pages nor do they show the titles in some cases, so it just becomes a huge list of blank pages that I can randomly click to see what comes up. Most of the time I delete them all.
I have to look back to see if in the settings I have to find where to block the personalized results again, if they even allow it or obey that instruction.
Now all of a sudden, pretty much possibly just as soon as it went to March 11th, very abruptly there seemed to be a drastic change, and the results didn't seem personalized anymore, but they also seemed especially boring and with lots of irrelevant seeming stuff from around a decade ago or even more, sometimes going back to the mid 2000s when YouTube had just started.
It seemed like a very sudden and abrupt blackout, and practically everything about the stuff going on was put way back or wasn't showing up at all, so it seemed like some kind of very extreme control protocol was activated suddenly.
The whole feeling of the place and everything dramatically shifted in just an hour or two that it seemed to occur, like it was curating everything all along, but mainly it turned extremely dull and boring, like practically discouraging continued use by sending totally boring results, almost like it was broken.
Maybe it was just something they are updating or working on right now, but considering what has been going on in the last few days, it seemed especially creepy to notice. Maybe it isn't functioning that way currently or wherever you each are connected or under certain proxies, but it seemed to be the case here or on my app and account.
I almost hope it keeps up, so that I do all the numerous much more enjoyable things I have surrounding me than being barraged with the latest horrors, and other horrors from some years ago, spamming my feed like it suddenly had been for the last few weeks or months since it seemed to stop just showing me random trending things, which I had set it to in order to know what the people are being brainwashed with in general.
I also noticed A.I. spam multiplying just before this, and multiple accounts of A.I. along with group accounts of A.I., so that every single character from some A.I. group gets their own channel also, and much of it was of a sexual nature or full of innuendo, amd some was full blown inappropriate or totally pushing boundaries, like something where they had A.I. narration over a totally nude photoshoot thing, so A.I. is really failing with certain censorship yet seemingly fully cracking down on allowing for the propagation of much of the sudden anti-violence sentiments that they were being overloaded with since these recent events.
I fear that they might be planning increasingly brutal fake and staged events to try to rally support or at least people not being as aggressively opposed to what they are doing or what they have done if they suddenly decide to stop. They've already resurrected Isis for the purpose in a recent news story that was pretty much the last major story from the U.S.A. before I noticed the abrupt silence and shut down of everything and not showing any stuff about it abruptly, like a switch was flipped.
Or, I just opened up things behind encryption without realizing it lol.
First of all, YouTube has become one of the major news dissemination and propaganda propagation sources worldwide for certain age groups that are more annoyed with TikTok, but fewer and fewer people have access to television broadcasts except through clips on YouTube, where they aldo find everything else in one place.
Recently a big burnout has been occurring around the world as access has become more universal and ubiquitous overall every year.
Part of that is the constant stressors.
I noticed that, and this is probably the case for a lot of people, I open lots of videos of interest, and this is more of a recent thing where they started ignoring my original setting not to send me personalized search results, but they are now doing that anyway which has increased how much I see that looks of potential interest, but I don't get to most of the videos which become too many too quickly which are opened, and I can't find those of more interest in the browsers which don't show what is on the pages nor do they show the titles in some cases, so it just becomes a huge list of blank pages that I can randomly click to see what comes up. Most of the time I delete them all.
I have to look back to see if in the settings I have to find where to block the personalized results again, if they even allow it or obey that instruction.
Now all of a sudden, pretty much possibly just as soon as it went to March 11th, very abruptly there seemed to be a drastic change, and the results didn't seem personalized anymore, but they also seemed especially boring and with lots of irrelevant seeming stuff from around a decade ago or even more, sometimes going back to the mid 2000s when YouTube had just started.
It seemed like a very sudden and abrupt blackout, and practically everything about the stuff going on was put way back or wasn't showing up at all, so it seemed like some kind of very extreme control protocol was activated suddenly.
The whole feeling of the place and everything dramatically shifted in just an hour or two that it seemed to occur, like it was curating everything all along, but mainly it turned extremely dull and boring, like practically discouraging continued use by sending totally boring results, almost like it was broken.
Maybe it was just something they are updating or working on right now, but considering what has been going on in the last few days, it seemed especially creepy to notice. Maybe it isn't functioning that way currently or wherever you each are connected or under certain proxies, but it seemed to be the case here or on my app and account.
I almost hope it keeps up, so that I do all the numerous much more enjoyable things I have surrounding me than being barraged with the latest horrors, and other horrors from some years ago, spamming my feed like it suddenly had been for the last few weeks or months since it seemed to stop just showing me random trending things, which I had set it to in order to know what the people are being brainwashed with in general.
I also noticed A.I. spam multiplying just before this, and multiple accounts of A.I. along with group accounts of A.I., so that every single character from some A.I. group gets their own channel also, and much of it was of a sexual nature or full of innuendo, amd some was full blown inappropriate or totally pushing boundaries, like something where they had A.I. narration over a totally nude photoshoot thing, so A.I. is really failing with certain censorship yet seemingly fully cracking down on allowing for the propagation of much of the sudden anti-violence sentiments that they were being overloaded with since these recent events.
I fear that they might be planning increasingly brutal fake and staged events to try to rally support or at least people not being as aggressively opposed to what they are doing or what they have done if they suddenly decide to stop. They've already resurrected Isis for the purpose in a recent news story that was pretty much the last major story from the U.S.A. before I noticed the abrupt silence and shut down of everything and not showing any stuff about it abruptly, like a switch was flipped.
Or, I just opened up things behind encryption without realizing it lol.
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atreestump
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Media Manipulation
Two more media theorists worth checking out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman?wprov=sfla1
Neil Postman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier?wprov=sfla1
Jaron Lanier.
Thinkers such as Neil Postman or Jaron Lanier argue that large social platforms reshape behaviour in manipulative ways. Your comment about people becoming “calculable instruments for power” aligns with critiques of algorithmic manipulation and data-driven behavioural engineering used by companies like Meta Platforms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman?wprov=sfla1
Neil Postman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier?wprov=sfla1
Jaron Lanier.
Thinkers such as Neil Postman or Jaron Lanier argue that large social platforms reshape behaviour in manipulative ways. Your comment about people becoming “calculable instruments for power” aligns with critiques of algorithmic manipulation and data-driven behavioural engineering used by companies like Meta Platforms.