Comments on: Russian propaganda talking points would be very familiar to News Corp audiences

By: Gonggongche

Gonggongche — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:12:52 +0000

In reply to DF.

Thanks DF, when I tried to post my direct link it kept coming out a title that amounted to an ad for a certain financing company, even though when I clicked on it, it took me to the right video – didn’t want to give a company I don’t believe does a good job a free ad.

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:17:01 +0000

I’ve often marvelled at full on LNP voters around me dishing up RT talking points. I guess they’re being delivered up by an evening’s Sky viewing. I have to suppress a smile though because the same people also talk about Russia being Communist.

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:11:44 +0000

In reply to Hmmmm. And I use Duckduckgo and Ecosia so no Google impact.

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:10:15 +0000

In reply to Anonymous Bosch.

That’s interesting. Until a few weeks ago I rarely used YouTube, just the occasional music video when I was feeling nostalgic. YouTube always dished me up Sky News and other hard right stuff.

Then I started watching Bulwark podcasts to get another perspective on US politics. The algorithm responded pretty much immediately and Sky, etc disappeared.

Last week something happened and Sky and the like re-appeared for a couple of days but then all the ‘left’ US stuff reappeared and Sky etc disappeared again. I hadn’t changed my viewing at all so I can’t think that I did anything to affect the algorithm’s performance.

By: Bref

Bref — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:22:22 +0000

Coming from northern NSW, but travelling through WA for the last couple oh months, I can’t help but notice the almost daily bombardment of tv advertising from mining and fossil fuel companies. The constant message of how wonderful and essential they for Australia must be having an effect. The most sickening and pathetic were Gina Reinhard’s ads.

By: Mark F

Mark F — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:10:41 +0000

I look forward to this author writing about much longer running, better funded US campaigns all around the world. It’s not that hard even I could do it. They’re proper programmes mainly through NED but not all. Might want to take a proper look at the wire services AP and Reuters. Almost all non western foreign news comes through them. Relatively small and financially vulnerable. What could go wrong ?

The idea that we should allow special pleading for the home of propaganda and political blackmail is ridiculous. The idea that the poor state of US politics is influenced anything more than marginally by Russia even more so.

The article even attempts to convince us that Murdoch et al are being played by those damned Russkies. I think not. So the Russians are giving the Yanks a bit of their own poison propaganda medicine. After what the Yanks have dished up to us just in past few years it’s hard to feel compassion.

That’s a C minus from me.

By: stuart cox

stuart cox — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:55:27 +0000

The ABC should be all over this, parliament also, our mainstream media will find this non newsworthy considering it has so many Dutton talking points.

By: Anonymous Bosch

Anonymous Bosch — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:19:41 +0000

In reply to spleenblatt. Yes, I had to play an extended game of whack-a-mole with Jordan Peterson content. Which reinforced my belief, that he's not being silenced as much as he claims.

By: spleenblatt

spleenblatt — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:42:41 +0000

In reply to Anonymous Bosch. If google has ever logged you clicking on a Jordan Peterson video, or standing next to someone who was discussing Jordan Peterson, or walking past a store stocking the books of Jordan Peterson, then you're doomed to get this stuff for a solid six months unless you completely narrow your YouTube clicks to interviews with Noam Chomsky.

By: libratorr

libratorr — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 04:44:38 +0000

In reply to DF.

Nah.
The Cold War ended and the top apparatchiks became neoliberal Tsars – perfectly devolved capitalist feudal overlords.
They’re merely exporting the ideology back to countries that have yet to fully rejoin the 1800’s.