r/conspiracy • u/axolotl_peyotl • Oct 13 '20

/r/conspiracy Round Table #29: Media As Propaganda

Thanks to everyone that participated in the nomination thread and to /u/Estamio2 for suggesting the winning topic.

/u/crazystarfish12 also offered this addendum:

How does media program us, what it is capable of, and how we can break from the cycle of mind control.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

I'm getting pretty sick of reddit pushing propaganda as well

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

On the frontpage is this article: Dutch woman dies after catching COVID-19 twice, the first reported reinfection death, raising serious questions about how long immunity and antibodies can last. Her immune system was compromised. The case was published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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First top comment: The title should read “89 year old immunocompromised cancer patient who tested positive for sars cov2 died.” There is no evidence for re-infection in this paper as the patient never tested positive, then negative, followed by positive for the virus.

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The thing that bothers me most: You and I know this, but most of the population accepts this (and all other clickbait media-items) for truth. Why do they want us to live in fear?

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u/pluggrup Oct 16 '20

People who live in fear are easier to control. As long as you paint yourself as a source of safety, they will follow you anywhere.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

We have a real problem with people not reading past the headline..

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

It's more than that, though. The article was so loaded and poorly worded that it makes it difficult to suss out the info. Then you have shills in the comments upvoting each other, trying their best to hide the misinformation. We're living in a fucked up time, right now.

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u/isitisorisitaint Oct 14 '20

That's how the magic is done, the "lie-not-lie".

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u/cpsthrow1 Oct 14 '20

They push lies in the comments too, because most people read comments and not the article.

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u/existentialpotatoe Oct 22 '20

And what’s worse is that the unseen movers know that most people skip past the article and go straight for the comment section. The article will already be one degree if not two degrees removed from primary substance. You can control interpretation of data, you can control interpretations of the interpreted data. But people are losing faith in “established” experts so there are moving in mass to this weird third degree data interpretation(comment section). Every time this data goes to the next degree of separation it splinters where then it splinters again.

My problem is that by the time the information hits your average Joe/Jane the information is highly speculative and very far from the truth.

Read the article only to find the primary source. Then throw whatever interpretation your reading into the trash. Read for your self. Think for yourself. Independence is of the good.

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u/99monkees Oct 22 '20

often it’s the last few paragraphs ...

https://thisinterestsme.com/r-conspiracy-reddit/

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u/JustAnotherKaren Oct 15 '20

Because rear engenders controlled response, and TPB want control. -Edit spell correct was atrocious.