Russian TikTok Influencers Paid to Spread Kremlin Propaganda
VICE News confirmed that someone unknown (possibly Russia’s government?) has been paying TikTok social media influencers to spread untrue lies as propaganda messaging on TikTok.
No it didn’t: Story of cute missing white woman “became a national obsession”
In missing person case after case, the media provides saturation coverage – but only if the victim is an attractive, young, blue-eyed blonde woman. The inherent racism and sexism of media news directors is astounding.
The scary ways the “metaverse” will control your views and your identity
How the “metaverse” may cause us to become even more uniform in our views to conform to group identiies.
The Unexpected Return of ‘Duck and Cover’
In the 1950s and 1960s, government technocrats held propaganda campaigns to convince us that to be safe in a nuclear attack, we just needed to “duck and cover” under our desks. Every elementary school student practiced this in monthly drills. But it was utterly useless. Its purpose was to pretend that we had control over something for which we actually had no control. It is similar to what just transpired during the pandemic – we were mandated to engage in actions that were utterly useless.
How restaurants use music to manipulate your dining experience
Restaurants use an arsenal of manipulation techniques to encourage you to purchase higher profit items, and even to eat food faster so they can turn around the table to another customer, more quickly.
Privacy: George Washington University tracked students’ location on campus
As long as we carry electronic devices with us, we are being tracked and potentially logged in databases.
Study finds massive censorship of Covid-related information, by social media companies
Study finds widespread censorship of social media posts, by “BigTech” social media companies. In many cases, scientific skepticism, since show to be correct, was deleted by FB, Twitter and so on.
Homeland Security says if you disagree with the U.S. government you are a terrorist threat
The US Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin, yesterday, saying that anyone engaged in “(1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions; ” is a terrorist. This claim from DHS is a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
By my noting this here, this blog is now, apparently, an official terrorist blog. Wow.
Facebook share price has dropped by about one-third over past few days
FB has now lost about one third of its market cap over the past few days.
Self negating headline: “More than 70% of Black Americans don’t have wills.”
Surprisingly, the difference between different groups with a will and those without is very tiny and the gap is closing rapidly. But the CNBC headline chooses to spin this with an emotion-laden, inflammatory, click-bait headline.