In the months leading up to the presidential election of 2016, the term FakeNews really came to the forefront. It quickly came to be the catch all term to describe any article that showed a candidate in a bad light, or even the POTUS himself.
But isn't that just satire?
Since the days of George Washington, political figures have been the target of satire articles and comics, people like Mark Twain, Will Rogers made a living at this. Satire and Propaganda have always been with us.
Propaganda: You believe what we tell you.
In the 1930's Adolph Hitler learned to use the full power of propoganda and "fake news". He appointed Goebbels as his propaganda spokesperson... And he was very good at his job!
During just a few short years, they used positive party, and negitive Jew propaganda until most of the nation was lined up with the same thoughts as herr Hitler., this worked in part because there was no dissenting view allowed to be published..
If it's not broke don't fix it
in the years following WWII, propaganda was still a very important tool to those in power, but the tactics had to change.
Now controlling opposing view wasn't as easy as it once was, you simply could not make people disappear in the night for writing what they wanted. So the next best thing.. CIA project "Mockingbird". Control the news outlets, talk down any view other than the party line, and use a new term when needed "conspiracy theorist". This alone was enough to bend the will of the people at the time.
So what went wrong?
With Al Gore inventing the Internet, now all of a sudden people were getting news from outside main stream media/ state sponsored sources. Now instead of being able to drag the sole dissenter with a printing press, off screaming into the night, we had thousands of investigative bloggers posting truths willy nilly around the world.
This really became a problem following 9/11, because not only did some people not only not think the official story was true, but now they can share that with others.
It was shortly after the news that Seal Team 6 had killed Osama Bin Laden hit the airways, that people on the internet were able to make a direct challenge to the government story... Hacked Stratfor emails punched holes all in the official burial at sea story. Every sense then it's been a all out war to control the Internet.
one of the first lines of defense was paid shills, Government of NGO's employees whose sole job was to down vote, disrupt, Misdirect, or even provide dis info on various topics. Groups like "correct the record" operated off a flowchart and could ruin or stop just about any topic.
But soon we became wise to these shills, once spotted we were soon able to lead them off script and expose them.
But that wasn't enough anymore, control was again slipping away. And now social media like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. could spread things faster than speeding bullet.. And leading up to this election, "they" played the next hand.
Only this time it wasn't just a defensive posture, they went on the attack.
First they have created unstable backbone in the Internet, they gave "control" to out of country Intrests, this card has yet to be used, but make no doubts, it will be.
Second they set up many websites, mostly in the "alt news" fashion, and proceeded to crank out many outlandish articles. 98% of the population could see them for what they were. Keep in mind there were also real Americans, creating satire as we have always done... But now the new twist... Liberals, and special snowflakes, and even partyline democrats and some republicans began feigning outrage..
Now those mainstream media mockingbirds simply fed the peoples minds with stories of #FakeNews, Fake News was now responsible for global warming/lack of global warming, fall of the Roman Empire, the Borg taking Picard, and the death of Princess Leia.. But mostly the staggering defeat of Hillary! Now those pushing the buttons didn't care if she won or lost, all that mattered was being able to control what We The People considered the truth.
They have shown how serious they are about this, using a lame duck president to trample on the constitution and taking steps to remove the freedom to produce anything but state party news.. And even better, They have convinced a large part of the population that this is a good idea.... AND blamed it all on the Russians, but that's propaganda that is still waiting to be played out.
