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What forms your worldview? How much of what you consume, in the form of movies, TV, news, music, theater, sports, fashion and food influence and or manipulates what you think you believe about culture? Continue reading and find out the answers to those questions.

A Handful of Owners and CEO’s Control 90% of Media and Entertainment

(2010) With so many channels to surf through and so much great programming, why can’t we find anything to watch? 90% of what we watch, listen to, and read is owned by 6 companies. That’s a large percentage to just be divided by a factor of six. 30 years ago 90% of media was held by 50 different companies, which is what most people would assume it would be now, but thanks to mergers and buyouts, it’s down to 6 major companies (until someone else buys another). The reason we never find anything new on TV is that 70% of what is on cable is owned by the ‘Big 6.’ That’s 1 out of every 5 hours of television. Comcast now owns 51% of NBC, while GE owns 49% (even though the infographic states that GE owns Comcast), further controlling the market with a top cable provider and a top cable channel.

See Infographic by Jason at Frugal Dad

How much influence does just the House of Mouse CEO have?

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Who owns ESPN? Who owns ABC? Does Disney own Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar? The answer is yes, and more — a lot more. Title Max has made a map of the companies owned by Disney along with the wide swath of departments and Walt Disney Company subsidiaries. Massive corporations may be too big to grasp sometimes, but this huge list of assets of the Walt Disney Corporation can help media consumers untangle the great network of the mouse.

Continue reading at titlemax.com

BIG TECH: FACEBOOK, TWITTER, GOOGLE, & YOUTUBE

Google Manipulates Search Results, According to Study

Google knowingly manipulates search results according to a research paper published Monday from several academics. The study presents evidence that the search giant sets out to hamper competitors and limit consumers’ options. The paper lands as Google prepares to release its response to the European Union investigation, which rests on similar claims about Google’s comparison-shopping product.

Continue reading at cnbc.com

VICE Admits: Twitter Is Shadowbanning Conservatives, Mainstream Republicans

A new report published on Wednesday by VICE News details the ongoing censorship of conservatives on social media. This time, the offender is Twitter. Through an objective analysis, VICE News reporter Alex Thompson concluded that Twitter is hiding the accounts of certain high-profile conservatives from its user through a process referred to as “shadowbanning.”

Continue reading at breitbart.com

Snopes Now Have Power To ‘Shadowban’ Conservative Facebook Users

Shadowbanning is a new concept in social media and involves banning a user from a platform in such a way that the banned user is unaware of the ban. A shadowbanned user will be able to see their own posts, but other users, including friends and followers, do not get to see them in their newsfeed.

Thanks to new Facebook rules, conservatives who share news articles that Snopes decide to suppress, or opinion pieces that CEO David Mikkelson considers deplorable, are having their Facebook posts hidden from their friends, family, and followers.

Snopes was tapped by Facebook as one of its approved fact-checking groups and given the ability to mark stories on the site as “true” or “false”. While this idea sounds fine in theory, in practice it has had a chilling effect on free speech, while limiting the free expression of conservatives on the internet.

Continue reading at newspunch.com

BANNED: Twitter and YouTube Team Up Against Crowder! | Louder With Crowder

Courtesy of StevenCrowder

In 2012, US Congress ends the ban on ‘domestic propaganda’

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act 2012 (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed. Continue reading at businessinsider.com

Operation Mockingbird 1950 (Before US Propaganda was legal)

-A secret scheme by the CIA to control media content and it started in 1950, shortly after the CIA came into being. The information was withheld from the American public by media personnel and media corporations that were receiving the funds and withheld by other media sources that knew about it. Continue reading at wikileaksusa.org

Out Of Shadows (Hollywood Exposed)

Out of Shadows is a film that attempts to lift the mask on how the mainstream media and Hollywood try to manipulate and control the masses by spreading propaganda via their platform. Released on YouTube in early April 2020, this film gained over a million views within its first 24 hours after being released, it is currently clocking in at just over thirteen million views which means people are certainly taking notice.

Illuminati in The Music Industry EXPOSED (Full length)

A Video Made And Produced By Farhan Khan And His Group. . . The video exposes how Illuminati is controlling the music industry and using it to brainwash the public and to control them and start there.

Illuminati in The Music Industry EXPOSED (Full length) [720p HD] from The Pastor’s Chronicles on Vimeo.

Video via The Pastor’s Chronicles

The Fashion Industry Exposed – Illuminati and Occult Symbolism

Via: Castleberry Crunch YouTube Channel

Operation Mockingbird:

In 1975 the CIA Admits Using Mainstream News Outlets To Manipulate The American People.

Psychological Operations (Psych Ops) aka Military Information Support Operations (MISO)

Psychological operations (PSYOP) or, officially since 2010, Military Information Support Operations (MISO)^[1] are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.^[2]

The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior favorable to US objectives. They are an important part of the range of diplomatic, informational, military, and economic activities available to the US. They can be utilized during both peacetime and conflict. There are three main types: strategic, operational, and tactical. Strategic PSYOP includes informational activities conducted by the US government agencies outside of the military arena, though many utilize Department of Defense (DOD) assets. Operational PSYOP is conducted across the range of military operations, including during peacetime, in a defined operational area to promote the effectiveness of the joint force commander’s (JFC) campaigns and strategies. Tactical PSYOP is conducted in the area assigned to a tactical commander across the range of military operations to support the tactical mission against opposing forces.

Continue reading at military.wikia.org

PsyWar: The Film

This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy and the relationship between war, propaganda, and class.

Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips (Project Censored), John Stauber (PR Watch), Christopher Simpson (The Science of Coercion), and others.

A deep, richly illustrated study of the nature and history of propaganda, featuring some of the world’s most insightful critics, Psywar exposes the propaganda system, providing crucial background and insight into the control of information and thought.