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Is This How the Media Brainwashed the World About COVID?
How do you win a war without firing a single bullet? You use the media to manipulate the minds of the people – and these leaked documents from the BBC and Reuters are a prime example of just how propaganda is being used to pull humanity’s strings all over the planet.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Leaked documents reveal Reuters and BBC News have been involved in a covert program by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to weaken Russia’s influence through a multipronged propaganda campaign
- Operation Mockingbird was a clandestine CIA media infiltration campaign launched in 1948 under the Office of Special Projects. The CIA spent about one-third of its budget on bribes to hundreds of journalists who published fake stories at the CIA’s request
- However, infiltration and manipulation of the media has been a routine occurrence since 1915, when J.P. Morgan interests, including the steel and shipbuilding industries, purchased editorial control of 25 of the most influential newspapers, thereby allowing them to control news about military preparedness, financial policies and other news that were crucial to their private and corporate interests
- Operation Mockingbird was the CIA’s effort to consolidate and expand this secret hold over the media some three decades later
- While the propaganda messages change with the times, the basic modus operandi remains the same to this day. If anything, the system has only gotten more efficient and effective, as the number of major media outlets have shrunk and a vast majority of journalists simply parrot what’s reported by the three global news agencies
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