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Zatore@lemmy.zip 4 days agoDamn, you really hate anyone and everything conservative. Yes I was aware of all of that. But please tell me you understand the difference between supporting something and being a wild fanatic, or did your OSINT training skip that part. Also, what part of the video was fake? Regardless if you agree with it’s premise or not, Destin was extremely clear and up front with the struggles of this project. I really get the feeling you are just building your own narrative off his video.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I just see through the “innocent facade” and judge the underlying bias. Propaganda these days can be hard to recognize for most people. Some are obvious AF, like Fox News, although loads of people are unable to even see that. Other sources, like Smarter Every Day, have a finesse and innocence built into it making it hard to recognize it has a strong bias foundation, even making you defend it even though I doubt you are MAGA yourself. Fox is for dumb people. Propaganda like Smarter Every Day is to trick people who won’t fall for Fox.
There are news sites with relatively normal news articles. Not much opinions in them, not radical. On the surface it looks like a regular news site. Comparing it’s articles to other news sources and it isn’t much different. Trustworthy news site right?
But when you look at the web address, you see it is registered in Saint Petersburg. There are no ads on the website and there’s no paid subscription plan. What is their source of income? When you check the articles on the website, they are almost all about something negative in the US. The same articles as on US respectable news sites. But only the news pertraying the US in a negative way. All the other articles you see on US news sites which aren’t negativity tinted are missing on this website. But the articles there are rather solid.
This is an example of very subtle propaganda. It’s not in the extreme form like with Fox News. It’s in the absence of anything unfavorable to their naritive, which gives a certain view on the US in general.
It’s like the review system on Amazon. When a product has 100 reviews, with 95 five star reviews and 5 is one star reviews. Pretty decent product, right? But when you only show the 5 one star reviews, the product looks like shit.
With Smarter Every Day it works somewhat similar. He scetches a scenario which is favorable to the Trump naritive, but leaves out a lot of other factors which are unfavorable, yet very real. With in the end the effect of people like you defending him and his naritive he tries to push.
Not all propaganda is obvious AF and focused on conspiracy loonies. There’s all different kinds of propaganda tailored for everyone.