#manufacturingconsent — Public Fediverse posts

BOMB FIRST, CAPTION LATER -- new short.

In 2003 the NYT helped sell the Iraq invasion and apologized in a four-paragraph footnote a year later. By then roughly 200,000 Iraqi civilians were dead.

In 2025 the same playbook ran on Iran. "Weeks from a bomb." "Obliterated."

That's not manufacturing consent. That's manufacturing cover.

Full essay: https://open.substack.com/pub/joetripician/p/the-iraq-playbook-came-back

#MediaCriticism #Iran #Iraq #Propaganda #ForeignPolicy #Journalism #ManufacturingConsent

Bomb first, caption later.

2003: NYT manufactured consent for Iraq, apologized in a footnote.

2025: Same playbook on Iran -- "weeks from a bomb," "obliterated," intelligence laundering.

Only 16% of Americans bought it. Bombs fell anyway.

New piece →
https://open.substack.com/pub/joetripician/p/the-iraq-playbook-came-back

#Iran #MediaCriticism #Propaganda #Iraq #ForeignPolicy #Journalism #ManufacturingConsent

https://brsh.site/NM9No // Qui contrôle le mégaphone ? La guerre contre les réseaux sociaux et la lutte pour l’espace public numérique.
Un combat est en cours – silencieux dans son langage juridique, mais immense dans ses conséquences. /#X #DSA #EUcensorship #Fediverse #Mastodon #ManufacturingConsent

https://brsh.site/vkAo8 Wer kontrolliert das Megafon? Der Krieg gegen soziale Medien und der Kampf um den digitalen öffentlichen Raum.
#X #DSA #EUcensorship #Fediverse #Mastodon #ManufacturingConsent / https://brsh.site/vkAo8

https://brainsharing.blog/who-controls-the-megaphone-the-war-on-social-media-and-the-fight-for-the-digital-public-square/There is a battle underway — quiet in its legal language, but thunderous in its consequences. Governments, regulators, and the establishment interests that orbit them are systematically tightening their grip on social media, and the official justifications being offered —#X #DSA #EUcensorship #Fediverse #Mastodon #ManufacturingConsent

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines | The Verge

#journalism #TechOligarchy #manufacturingconsent #manipulation #news #media #google #ai #aimanipulated #resist #boycottgoogle

https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

The New York Times Simulator

Do you have what it takes to be the next editor-in-chief of the New York Times? Find out with this fast paced game!

https://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator

• Based on hundreds of real world news and headlines.
• Featuring the passive voice and many common framing techniques.
• A modern remake of Lucas Pope’s cult game The Republia Times
• Free casual play. A session lasts about 10 minutes.

#NYT #NYTimes #LegacyMedia #ManufacturingConsent

The New York Times Simulator

Do you have what it takes to be the next editor-in-chief of the New York Times? Find out with this fast paced game!

https://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator

• Based on hundreds of real world news and headlines.
• Featuring the passive voice and many common framing techniques.
• A modern remake of Lucas Pope’s cult game The Republia Times
• Free casual play. A session lasts about 10 minutes.

#NYT #NYTimes #LegacyMedia #ManufacturingConsent

The New York Times Simulator

Do you have what it takes to be the next editor-in-chief of the New York Times? Find out with this fast paced game!

https://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator

• Based on hundreds of real world news and headlines.
• Featuring the passive voice and many common framing techniques.
• A modern remake of Lucas Pope’s cult game The Republia Times
• Free casual play. A session lasts about 10 minutes.

#NYT #NYTimes #LegacyMedia #ManufacturingConsent

The New York Times Simulator

Do you have what it takes to be the next editor-in-chief of the New York Times? Find out with this fast paced game!

https://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator

• Based on hundreds of real world news and headlines.
• Featuring the passive voice and many common framing techniques.
• A modern remake of Lucas Pope’s cult game The Republia Times
• Free casual play. A session lasts about 10 minutes.

#NYT #NYTimes #LegacyMedia #ManufacturingConsent

The New York Times Simulator

Do you have what it takes to be the next editor-in-chief of the New York Times? Find out with this fast paced game!

https://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator

• Based on hundreds of real world news and headlines.
• Featuring the passive voice and many common framing techniques.
• A modern remake of Lucas Pope’s cult game The Republia Times
• Free casual play. A session lasts about 10 minutes.

#NYT #NYTimes #LegacyMedia #ManufacturingConsent

Dive into Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" — a must-watch primer on media, power, and propaganda. Sharp, provocative, and essential for anyone who cares about democracy and truth. Watch, learn, and discuss! #ManufacturingConsent #NoamChomsky #MediaLiteracy #Propaganda #Democracy #Politics #Education #English
https://video.dresden.network/videos/watch/dbd5c6b7-fdad-49b7-9f71-03cccad484e2

Me llena de orgullo y satisfacción comunicaros, querida clientela, que estaremos todo el fin de semana abiertos, como nuestro fantástico espíritu de los tiempos manda. . #feliznavidad #ManufacturingConsent . . Web -> buff.ly/3zJmhNi #segundamano . #librería #libros #books #Granada #bookshop

Me llena de orgullo y satisfacción comunicaros, querida clientela, que estaremos todo el fin de semana abiertos, como nuestro fantástico espíritu de los tiempos manda.
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#lodehoy
#librería
#libreríasdeGranada
#libros
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#Granada
#bibliofilia
#librosdeviejo
#bookshop
#bookstagram
#libreríadeviejo
#booksofmastodon
#librosdeMastodon

“This was not a fair-market transaction,” said Milton Mueller, a professor at Georgia Tech specializing in digital governance. “It’s a politically determined restructuring.”

"Israel wins TikTok": https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tiktok-larry-ellison-israel/

#personalData #manufacturingConsent #infoWar #interference #influence #attention #propaganda #TikTok #consolidation #socialMedia #genocideSupport #StandWithIsrael #Oracle #UAE #Ellison #Paramount #ParamountSkydance

The Dialectic of Institutional Asymmetry and the Crisis of Representation: The Rise of Lobbying and the Decline of NGO-Union Resistance @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5324411
#Lobbying #CivilSociety #TradeUnions #Hegemony #DemocraticRepresentation #BlackMoney #RevolvingDoor #Neoliberalism #PowerElite #ManufacturingConsent #GlobalSouth #DiscourseAnalysis #ComparativePolitics

@urlyman
#manufacturingConsent

*edited to add: there are often open-source alternatives, many of which need help with everything from translation to documentation to writing code. That is to say, I acknowledge that for many interactions, my posting the hashtag on it's own is reductionist, but perhaps where Manufacturing Consent seems relevant, we can trace our steps back and figure out the point we started consensually engaging with the entity that is or seems to be manufacturing consent.

There's probably a spectrum of degrees of choice represented at those points we started consensually engaging with the other entity, depending on (em)urgency of the customer's need and degree of monopoly supplier holds. Eg.: emergency medical care > insulin pump > railway ticket.

The user has to consent to all of those things, but obviously at one end of the spectrum is "or death", and moving away from that things get more relaxed.

Crikey. Sorry. Don't stand there. I think there's a soapbox on the floor. Dangerous stuff this social media!

#foss #openSource #consent #degoogle #demeta #defacebook #selfHosted #homeLab #BSD #openBSD #linux #ethics #law #civics #complexSystemsTheory #cybernetics #contractLaw

@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."

*Parenti intensifies...*

#socialism #communism #anarchism #marxism #MichaelParenti #parenti #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #InventingReality #ManufacturingConsent

"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
[…]
• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."

Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

@histodons 🧶

#progress #appropriation #enclosures #landGrab #economics #property #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #anthropology #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #domination #beliefs #manufacturingConsent #whiteSupremacy #India #colonialism #BritishRule #BritishIndia #BritishEmpire #UK #Britain

Stuck on Big Tech vs. Big China, America Overlooks the Real Social Media Revolution Happening Elsewhere

The Fediverse, a network of decentralized social media platforms, thrives in Europe and Canada, promoting privacy and user control in contrast to U.S. corporate giants. Factors like European regulations, public funding, and anti-Big Tech sentiment contribute to its success, while the U.S. struggles with corporate dominance and lack of privacy laws, lagging behind in digital innovation.

https://stakeholderssgv.wpcomstaging.com/2025/02/03/us-missing-out-on-decentralized-web/

Stuck on Big Tech vs. Big China, America Overlooks the Real Social Media Revolution Happening Elsewhere

The Fediverse, a network of decentralized social media platforms, thrives in Europe and Canada, promoting privacy and user control in contrast to U.S. corporate giants. Factors like European regulations, public funding, and anti-Big Tech sentiment contribute to its success, while the U.S. struggles with corporate dominance and lack of privacy laws, lagging behind in digital innovation.

https://stakeholderssgv.wpcomstaging.com/2025/02/03/us-missing-out-on-decentralized-web/

“The TikTok campaign paid for by the National Liberal Party fits a pattern of unethical strategies by the major parties, including the use of fake accounts, bots and trolls, and the creation of fake media sites to promote their candidates and attack their opponents,” says Liana Ganea: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/romanian-election-undone-by-tiktok/

@eu

#propaganda #elections #campaign #Romania #TikTok #institutionsDeceive #manufacturingConsent #infoWar #Russia #Ukraine #TruthDig #interference #influence #NATO

@cdarwin

>With Trump soon back in the White House, and people like Orbán cheering him on from the sidelines, can the hard right bring the media to heel?
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>In the past the answer would have been a speedy no. The United States has major constitutional protections of First Amendment rights, and a strong commitment to freedom of the press.

The "mainstream media" *is* right wing. All of it. Perhaps not as far right wing as Trump would like, but *all* of it is right wing. If I could choose only one book to require every American to read, it would be Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti.

#InventingReality #MichaelParenti #ManufacturingConsent #EdwardHerman #NoamChomsky

@eloquence

>There will be people who say, “Hey, you work for a company and that company has the right to expect employees to adhere to what’s good for the company”. That’s true except we’re talking about news organizations that have public obligations and who are obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy. Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press— and trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press.

Under capitalism, news organizations have no such "public obligations" and are absolutely not "obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy." They are doing what they are designed to do: Invent Reality (or, if you prefer, Manufacture Consent).

I honestly think that reading Inventing Reality, by Michael Parenti, should be a prerequisite to working in journalism:

https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-inventing-reality-the-politics-of-the-mass-media-1986-st.-martins-press_202012

#capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #MichaelParenti #InventingReality #EdwardHerman #NoamChomsky #ManufacturingConsent #MainstreamMedia #wapo #WashingtonPost #Disney #Bezos #Amazon

[A long thread ball 🧶]

#Work is a matter of power and domination.
#Work should be a concern of political theory.

Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience

#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead

Today, we discovered a new #Mastodon (or #Fediverse) #recipe: use the hashtags #JillStein or #VoteThirdParty and immediately get #hate from #Kamala worshippers, including the #racist and #conspiratorial kind.

Well, not that new: It's the same in #Germany: reject the #criminal "#mainstream" and you're #AfD, #Putin or an "antisemitic #terrorist sympathizer".

#RadicalCentrism (so-called)

#2024PresidentialElection #PresidentialElection #KamalaHarris #FediHate #Brainwashed #ManufacturingConsent

It's all #lies! But you knew that, didn't you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQXsPU25B60

#ManufacturingConsent #NoamChomsky #Chomsky #StopTheGenocides #STG

> #ManufacturingConsent, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman devote a chapter to the media’s unbalanced coverage of the murder of one priest in Poland in 1984 as compared to the coverage of the 72 religious killed throughout Latin America between 1964 and 1978, the killing of 23 religious in Guatemala between 1980 and 1985, the murder of #ArchbishopRomero of San Salvador in 1980 and the rape and murder of the 4 U.S. Church women in El Salvador in 1980..
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/21/the-u-s-empire-modern-day-christian-martyrs/
#ChomskyAndHerman

INSANITY REIGNS as Press Continues Biden Attacks and Dems Question: WHAT NOW?! | #ResistanceLive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7HjQHcFp_o

Ignore the noise and stay the course. #BidenHarris2024 Fight back against the disinformation noise.

#PreemptiveObedience #MediaCritique #ConfirmationBias #Disinformation #ManufacturingConsent #BotFarms #AIElectionInterference #2024Election #Biden

Now listening to: Mental Health Check: Unpacking Affect and Resisting Psychic Intrusion with Lara Sheehi

"Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology. [She's] founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara's work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the author of the forthcoming book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press, 2025)."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5fX4YlGxR8

#PalestineGenocide #colonialism #propaganda #PsychologicalWarfare #ManufacturingConsent #islamophobia #racism #DismantlingSystemsOfOppression #StatePower #HumanRights #PsyOp #FreeFreePalestine
@palestine @israel

New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman had a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.
#FAIR: https://fair.org/home/action-alert-friedmans-vermin-analogies-echo-ugly-pro-genocide-propaganda/ via @FAIR

#raceMaking #NYT #media #racism #ThomasFriedman #columnist #NewYorkTimes #manipulation #warCrimes #USWars #coloniality #propaganda #genocide #callToGenocide #reputation #whiteSupremacy #manufacturingConsent

Anybody know if #EmilyHund is here? She wrote the book #TheInfluencerIndustry about social media, #algos and #propaganda. Here's a short interview with #Capitalisnt. It's wild to hear the hosts kinda struggle with waking up to how #ManufacturingConsent works.
https://pca.st/episode/cb523eed-bc8a-4416-a1c1-384fc73bd025

Anybody know if #EmilyHund is here? She wrote the book #TheInfluencerIndustry about social media, #algos and #propaganda. Here's a short interview with #Capitalisnt. It's wild to hear the hosts kinda struggle with waking up to how #ManufacturingConsent works.
https://pca.st/episode/cb523eed-bc8a-4416-a1c1-384fc73bd025

Anybody know if #EmilyHund is here? She wrote the book #TheInfluencerIndustry about social media, #algos and #propaganda. Here's a short interview with #Capitalisnt. It's wild to hear the hosts kinda struggle with waking up to how #ManufacturingConsent works.
https://pca.st/episode/cb523eed-bc8a-4416-a1c1-384fc73bd025

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper:
(2019) https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/

#TheGuardian #Assange #Corbyn #MI5 #MI6 #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #media #security #manipulation #coOpting #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #Guardian #DumpTheGuardian #manufacturingConsent

@sim
He's an empty vessel. Just because he is empty that doesn't mean the #MICIMATT won't continue their aggresive apace. Presidents are largely empty vessels in the US, they get there by being corrupt.

Keep a close eye on #Venezuela and #SaudiArabia. The machine wants more #fossilFuels to devour and they don't like having to buy from #Russia while telling other countries like #Germany not to. Yes the leaders are this #duplicitous and #psychopathic.

#manufacturingConsent
@coyote @mrsaturday