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Reducing the Unaccountable Power of Information Monopolies

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | October 25, 2020

Congress has no problem passing ‘The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012’, but shows little appetite in reigning in Big Tech’s manipulative propaganda.  The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 is Operation Mockingbird on steroids — officially recognizing, legitimizing and funding the CIA’s previously illegal domestic propaganda and psychological operations designed to manipulate the media you consume.

What’s at stake?   

  • Power to control reality: Your sense of history, science, truth and reality.
  • Manufacturing consent: Your informed or misinformed consent regarding the safety and efficacy of medicines.
  • Power to control elections in the hands of the unelected few: Control and manipulation of public opinion on politics using hidden algorithms and AI.
  • We are witnessing a modern-day book-burning orgy while financially destroying our best and brightest content creators – we are destroying knowledge to satisfy a few selfish interests.

Solution:

  • Regulate: will only create barriers to competitors since smaller companies can’t afford the large staff needed to comply with onerous government regulations. It is an historical fact that monopolies prefer to be heavily regulated to prevent entry into their markets by smaller competitors.
  • Break-up: Think Standard Oil. The breakup only made Rockefeller much wealthier.
  • Total transparency: Force Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other monopolies to publicly post and otherwise reveal ALL their methods to serve up and manipulate data — including source code, algorithms and AI.

Operation Mockingbird Wikipedia:

Operation Mockingbird, CIA Media Control Program – The Church Committee

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012

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NewsGuard

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | January 20, 2019

In an effort to regain control of the narrative, NewsGuard will be on your phone and browser soon. I’ve heard that you will not be able to remove it on certain browsers and devices — there will be no opt-out. The trick here is for our ruling class to tell the masses what is good news and what is not. If you visit an approved news site like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc., you will get a nice green rating… other sites will have either a yellow or red rating to warn you that what you are reading is ‘FAKE NEWS’. The point here is to condition you –like Pavlov’s doggy– to always seek the green light. It’s an emotional signal. This will allow the political ruling class to more effectively herd their livestock to the correct way of thinking, while putting their competition out of business. If they can get away with this thought control gimmick, I’m sure something like Google’s Dragonfly and China’s ‘social credit’ system will be soon to follow here in the West.

BTW: The Smith-Mundt Act of 1945 prohibited the use of propaganda against our own citizens here in the USA; however, The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 now makes it legal for the US State Department –this includes the CIA– and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to use propaganda here on US Citizens. Yes, your Democrats and your Republicans voted this into law.

NewsGuard Advisory Board:

  • Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security (George W. Bush administration)
  • CFR member: Richard Stengel, former editor of Time magazine and Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy (Obama administration) – video of Richard at CFR:
    Richard Stengel (CFR member) justifies domestic propaganda
  • CFR member: (Ret.) General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (George W. Bush administration)
  • CFR member: Don Baer, chairman of Burson, Cohn & Wolfe and former White House Communications Director (Clinton administration)
  • Elise Jordan (Michael Hastings’ widow), political analyst, NBC, and former speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (CFR member)
  • John Battelle, co-founding editor of Wired and founding chief executive of Industry Standard magazines
  • CFR member: Jessica Lessin, founder and editor-in-chief of The Information

Additional information:

UPDATE: June 7th, 2019

The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent
Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is funded by a confluence of tech oligarchs and powerful forces with a clear stake in controlling the flow of news.

After the failure of Newsguard — the news rating system backed by a cadre of prominent neoconservative personalities — to gain traction among American tech and social media companies, another organization has quietly stepped in to direct the news algorithms of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent