{"id":12181,"date":"2022-01-13T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12181"},"modified":"2022-01-13T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:30:11","slug":"uk-government-used-propaganda-based-on-fear-to-control-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/01\/13\/uk-government-used-propaganda-based-on-fear-to-control-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government used propaganda based on fear to control the public"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fear is one of the most powerful of propaganda methods.<\/p>\n

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The co-founder of No10’s ‘Nudge Unit’ has accused the Government of using scare tactics to get people to follow Covid rules during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Behavioural scientist Simon Ruda suggested there had been an overemphasis on modelling and data that he warned was ‘propagandistic’.<\/p>\n

Writing in the magazine\u00a0Unherd\u00a0<\/a>today, he said fear was initially used to boost public compliance during the first\u00a0lockdown<\/a>\u00a0but had been carried right through the crisis.<\/p>\n

‘That fear seems to have subsequently driven policy decisions in a worrying feed-back loop,’ said Mr Ruda, who\u00a0help set up No10’s Behavioural Insights Team in 2010.<\/p>\n

‘In my mind, the most egregious and far-reaching mistake made in responding to the pandemic has been the level of fear willingly conveyed on the public.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: Ministers have used ‘propagandistic’ tactics to scare public into complying with Covid rules | Daily Mail Online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UK government is accused of deliberately using scare tactics to force the population into compliance with its public health Orders and mandates (which they elite themselves ignore). Fear is one of the most powerful of propaganda motivators and has long been a tool of tyrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30,38,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-media-propaganda","category-propaganda-methods","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}