Monday 6 March 2017

information wars

Russia is the news:
Russia's propoganda campaign is weakening Europe from the inside - Business Insider
Labour MP claims it's 'highly probable' Russia interfered with Brexit referendum | The Independent

So is CNSnewand the Media Research Center
Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media | Politics | The Guardian
Watchdog to launch inquiry into misuse of data in politics | Technology | The Guardian

Here are a few questions:

How much news can we trust?
Jay Doubleyou: fake news

Is it all 'post-truth' anyway?
Jay Doubleyou: facts don't matter!

How do our politicians use language?
Jay Doubleyou: the language of donald trump

What sort of people voted for the President?
Jay Doubleyou: losers!
Jay Doubleyou: education levels and voting trump

How is Russia and the West playing its games in the Ukraine?
Jay Doubleyou: english language media as propaganda in the ukraine

... and elsewhere?
Jay Doubleyou: colour revolutions

What media can we trust?
Jay Doubleyou: english-language news media - part two

How much history is being rewritten?
Jay Doubleyou: rewriting history
Jay Doubleyou: how different countries see the same bit of history... differently

... including the idea that 'we invented everything?
Jay Doubleyou: inventions

Is there any privacy on-line?
Jay Doubleyou: internet privacy

How old is 'propaganda'?
Jay Doubleyou: propaganda, public relations and manufacturing consent

Back to Russia:
Putin's Propaganda Man | by Amy Knight | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
Peter Pomerantsev · Putin’s Rasputin · LRB 20 October 2011

And for a little more:
"Where does the independent critical analysis stop, and the manipulative lobbying begin?"
Peter Pomerantsev - Wikipedia
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev review – Putinism and the oil-boom years | Books | The Guardian (Feb 2015)
Peter Pomerantsev: Why We’re Post-Fact (July 2016)
Wolves in nationalist clothing – POLITICO (feb 2017)
Radio Prague - It’s not Russia vs. the US any more, the big threat is a Trump-Putin alliance, says writer Peter Pomerantsev (Feb 2017)
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