Nuestros medios rotos y qué hacer al respecto

Higdon, Huff y MacLeod hablan sobre la censura, las noticias falsas, la desinformación y la prevalencia de las teorías de la conspiración en esta discusión fluida.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod

 Virtually nobody trusts what they read any more. The United States ranks dead last among 46 nations surveyed in confidence in the press. Only 29% of Americans say they broadly believe what they read, see or hear in mainstream media. And more than three quarters of the public think that big outlets knowingly publish fake news. The term “fake

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No se trata de derecha o izquierda, se trata de neoliberalismo. Mickey Huff sobre los esfuerzos de las grandes tecnologías para purgar el disenso

"Si los republicanos y conservadores están realmente preocupados por el dinero en Silicon Valley y el impacto de las elecciones", dice Huff, "deberían mirarse en el espejo".

Raul Diego
Por Raul Diego

In mid-October, one day after Twitter and Facebook banned a story by the New York Post about a laptop alleged to belong to Hunter Biden, YouTube published a short announcement on its blog called "Managing harmful conspiracy theories on YouTube" where new "efforts to curb hate and harassment by removing more conspiracy theory content used to justify

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Exploring The Top Censored Stories Of 2016 With Project Censored’s Mickey Huff

As public trust in the mainstream media plummets amid widespread censorship and propaganda, media literacy expert Mickey Huff joins Mnar Muhawesh on ‘Behind the Headline’ to shed light on the year’s top censored stories.

Mnar Adley
Por Mnar Adley
Top censored 2017

MINNEAPOLIS --- Censorship, a tool often wielded by despots, is also a pastime of democratic governments and their corporate media lapdogs. Whether journalists are operating as part of a free press or as the puppets of a repressive government, the goal is the same: control public perceptions by carefully bending information to suit a particular

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‘Let’s Get Back To The Data’: Relentless Attacks On Assange Distract From Content Of WikiLeaks Releases

According to media literacy expert Mickey Huff, the treatment of Julian Assange and whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning sends a message that the government will ‘punish people in the United States and around the world if they’re going to tell our secrets.’

Kit O'Connell
Por Kit O'Connell
A figure depicts Julian Assange on a cross on top of a supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during a vigil outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP /Sang Tan)

AUSTIN, Texas --- Attacks on WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, including accusations of collusion with foreign governments, are growing more commonplace in the media as Election Day approaches. As the political establishment pushes back against WikiLeaks’ revelations of U.S. war crimes and corruption, political pundits have even threatened

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Top Censored Stories Of 2015

Mass bee die-offs, the dizzying wealth of the world’s 1%, U.S. military expansion — the corporate media might not be talking about it, but Project Censored’s Mickey Huff doesn’t shy away from discussing these topics with Mnar Muhawesh on “Behind the Headline.”

Mnar Adley
Por Mnar Adley
Spain UN Human Rights

MINNEAPOLIS --- Whether it’s current events or ancient history, the media is our lens for learning about the world around us. But never has this lens been more narrow, sensational, manipulative, and extreme than it is today. The establishment media went from being owned by over 50 corporations in the 1980s to just six by 2001. These six

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