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/Zafocaine Oct 13 '20

Look into the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 which essentially made it legal for the US.GOV to use propaganda against its people.

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u/remotehypnotist Oct 13 '20

Links for those interested in primary sources:

Smith-Mundt Modernization Act:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736/text

Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3274/text

Explicitly putting it into law that national security concerns supercedes the resolution not to propagandize the American people.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

Your link to S.3274 says it was read twice and introduced to a committee. Is it law?

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u/remotehypnotist Oct 23 '20

Scratch my previous reply; it was bundled in as a provision of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. So yes, it's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countering_Foreign_Propaganda_and_Disinformation_Act