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Month: July 2016

"In the age of the Internet, the truth does not matter"

"In the age of the Internet, the truth does not matter"

“In the age of the internet, the truth does not matter. The message you want to propagate can be told, and it will spread like wildfire. And spread it did.” Propaganda spreads faster than wildfire on social media, often torching everything in its path. The marriage of social media and propaganda is extraordinarily dangerous if you think about how Internet mobs convict people, groups, ideas – in a matter of hours – in the absence of a full set of…

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Report: Portland Public Schools gave media flawed data on lead

Report: Portland Public Schools gave media flawed data on lead

The former top spokesman for Portland Public Schools knowingly gave a journalist flawed information on the district’s water testing, according to a local law firm’s investigation into the district’s lead crisis. Source: Report: Portland Public Schools gave media flawed data on lead The former spokesman now works for Uber. Today, the Superintendent resigned effective immediately. The School district knew they had lead in the school’s drinking water, hid the information from parents and largely ignored it, even lied about it….

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Simple messages are more successful

Simple messages are more successful

TL;DR Summary This Right Wing News poster is one of the few effective posters they distribute (right wing social media propaganda is way behind left wing social media propaganda). Using the methods of Assertion and Linkage, this poster delivers a simple, easy to understand message. The significantly altered photo of Hillary Clinton likely engages an emotional response as well.

The 1956 Republican Platform

The 1956 Republican Platform

A left wing poster claims that the 1956 Republican Party platform supported everything Democrats support today. Except that the claims range from false to the items in the platform referred to something completely different than claimed by the poster.

Social media “influencers” secretly paid by companies

Social media “influencers” secretly paid by companies

Social media stars have been paid – quite well – to secretly promote various brands and products. Source: FTC spanks Warner Brothers for failure to disclose social influencer payments | The Blog Box Social media is THE platform for all forms of propaganda!