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We take the bait... The Alt-Right Propaganda Machine is Winning Because Americans Insist on Being Stupid
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The Alt-Right Propaganda Machine is Winning Because Americans Insist on Being Stupid: A Timeline of The Al Franken Scandal
Al Franken is not the first sacrificial lamb and definitely wont be the last as Americans refuse to acknowledge or take action against the fine-tuned Propaganda Machine that is omni-present on our social media platforms.
America has its very own Joseph Goebbels, yet we seem to be either too ignorant to history, or too ignorant to technology, to acknowledge and deal with the massive propaganda machine thats been assembled over the last 2 years here in America. Al Franken is just the latest casualty, and there will be more.
Its disturbing to see Americans still falling for the same dirty tricks we fell for the entire 2016 election season. We have the benefit of hindsight now and a cavalry of expert citizens educating us about propaganda and how to counteract it. Yet time and again, we are let down. Our media fails us. In their desperation for clicks they hop on any bandwagon that appears lucrative. And our people fail each other. They suspend critical thinking skills to line up on sides that dont even truly exist.
So lets use this past weeks Al Franken scandal as an illustration of the latest pizzagate-style propaganda hit job against our common senses. These manufactured news stories always follow the same distribution and amplification process, with few (but detectable) variables.
We start on Wednesday, November 15th at 10 PM a full 9 hours before Leeann Tweeden shares her #metoo story with the world.
When Roger Stone tweets, the troops assemble
For an alt-right super-villain at the center of the Russia-gate conspiracy, Americans seem to be surprisingly unconcerned with the contemporaneous activities of Roger Stone. Suffice to say, hes currently under federal investigation for his role in coordinating the DNC hacks with Guccifer 2.0, a Russian hacker who has since been identified by American Intelligence as an agent of the Russian FSB (aka KGB). But what hes doing present tense to weaponize information as part of Americas flourishing Alt-Right Propaganda Machine appears to fly largely under the radar.
Please read the article & look at the graphics here: https://medium.com/@Erinlank/the-alt-right-propaganda-machine-is-winning-because-americans-insist-on-being-stupid-a-timeline-of-e3bad99a51be
I can't get the link to work. For now, please click Painter's tweet and click the article from there.
bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)By the way, anyone know how much they pay? If America really IS this stupid, perhaps the manipulative GOPers are right in selling out?!
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)When Roger Stone tweets the troops assemble. If Stone is a Propaganda Minister, then alt-right activists like Michael Cernovich and Jack Posobiec are his devoted gruntmen. They stand ready with a digital army in spades, and it doesnt take much to signal the orders. Over 2 years, these players have fine-tuned their coordination in brazen fashion. Thats part of the way their disinformation has been successful. When its done out in the open, it somehow becomes harder to believe.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)2naSalit
(86,072 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)Republicans for decades. This is a newer extension of the same.
We need REAL REGULATORY AGENCIES, not ones that are run by the industry they regulate. The FCC is just one of many co-opted agencies that have allowed mergers, pollution, corporate give-aways...
Couple that with campaign bribes that has one Party selling out Americans in favor of the 1% and corporations and cheating in our elections and we hav e a real problem! These two issues are the root cause of most of our problems.
When we take back Congress and the WH we need to make sure these root problems are addressed!!!
calimary
(80,700 posts)SEND IT TO RACHEL.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/send-it-to-rachel-484429379677
I just did.
Start here - at Richard Painter's Twitter page:
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?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F10029879938
I copied the first few lines.
Then I went to "Send it to Rachel":
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/send-it-rachel
@maddow Richard W. Painter
@RWPUSA
Following Following @RWPUSA
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We take the bait...
The Alt-Right Propaganda Machine is Winning Because Americans Insist on Being Stupid
@SteveBenen @CoryGn @Oleta @TriciaMcKinney @MaddowBlog @WillAtWork PLEASE!
LINK: https://medium.com/@Erinlank/the-alt-right-propaganda-machine-is-winning-because-americans-insist-on-being-stupid-a-timeline-of-e3bad99a51be
Richard Painter's tweet can be found here:
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BTW - if you'll notice in the link, there's a bunch of @person's name all on the same line. @SteveBenen, @CoryGN, etc.
Those are other folks involved with "The Rachel Maddow Show" listed on the "Send it to Rachel" page, along with other "send it to..." options:
EMAIL US: Rachel@msnbc.com
TWEET US: The TRMS Twitter army looks roughly like this:
@Maddow is Rachels personal account.
@MaddowBlog tweets links and other blog content.
@SteveBenen - blogger extraordinaire
@CoryGn - executive producer Cory Gnazzo
@Oleta - senior producer Laura Conaway
@TriciaMcKinney - senior planning producer you recognize from the News Dump prize segments
@WillAtWork helps maintain the site
SNAIL US:
The Rachel Maddow Show
Floor 4 West
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
I'm emailing it to her, too.
THIS NEEDS EXPOSURE.
THESE ASSHOLES NEED TO KNOW THEY'VE BEEN EXPOSED!