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China's state radio has added 80 new frequencies since Radio Free Asia was cut, including those previously used by RFA, and increased its broadcasting hours (Washington Post)

Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia
Beijing expanded its state propaganda, including to the persecuted Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, as RFA pulled back.

Errol Musk attends Kremlin-backed event in Moscow, praises Putin and spreads Russian propaganda (Yuri Zoria/Euromaidan Press)
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/08/errol-musk-attends-kremlin-backed-event-in-moscow-praises-putin-and-spreads-russian-propaganda/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p14#a250608p14

Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/06/trump-radio-free-asia-cuts-china-propaganda/

50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

»Tim Berners-Lee wird 70 – der Architekt des World Wide Webs:
Der Mann, der uns das WWW schenkte, feiert 70. Geburtstag und kämpft weiter für ein freies Netz. Ein Blick auf sein technisches Erbe und seine aktuellen Pläne.«
Das WWW ist einiges mehr als nur die populären Social-Media's, die deren Nutzer*innen in ihrem virtuellen Garten festhalten. Ein freies Netz (ausser Propaganda) ist u.a. auch die Freiheit der Menschen.
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Missing Link: Tim Berners-Lee wird 70 – der Architekt des World Wide Webs
Der Mann, der uns das WWW schenkte, feiert 70. Geburtstag und kämpft weiter für ein freies Netz. Ein Blick auf sein technisches Erbe und seine aktuellen Pläne.

Senior State Department staffer Darren Beattie,
a passionate Putin supporter behind the move to dismantle a key agency fighting Russian propaganda,
is married to a Russian woman whose uncle is a longtime Kremlin ally, according to The Telegraph.
Yulia Kirillova grew up in Moscow, studied abroad in North America, and married Beattie in 2021 in Florida.
She moved to D.C. in January.
Her uncle Sergei Cherniko is a drinks magnate who had an estimated net worth of $1…

Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Decision Has Kremlin Ties
Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why.

US political contradictions; knowledge systems
As Trump at least partially succeeds in constructing an alternate reality for his most ardent followers, it's tempting to think of his dogma as false, in contrast to some imagined "truth" which his non-followers are smart enough to believe in. But a more nuanced view of knowledge would admit that different groups of people have different shared truths, constituting different knowledge systems which each deviate from what's objectively measurable in different ways, and in fact they each accept different standards of what is objective, so there's not really a single "ground truth" we can even compare to to determine which of these knowledge systems is "more correct" (similar problems arise even if we only care about "more useful").
To make this more concrete, we can see that e.g., competing quantum physics theories, or likewise competing religious beliefs, have no reasonable basis on which to judge between them, either in terms of "truth" or "utility." So the Trump-dogma knowledge system, although bad, morally repugnant, etc., can't so easily be dismissed as "false" in my view. "Distorted" or "malignant" or "evil" or "contradictory" are better monikers, in my opinion.
But what I'm even more interested in thinking about is: in what ways does the current American liberal "common sense" knowledge system already bear the scars of past fascist lies & contradictions? I can think of a few:
"Columbus was an explorer."
This is "factually accurate" in the same way some of Trump's propaganda is, but it's also a cruel distortion of "Columbus was a child murderer," and it's a misrepresentation that serves an evil purpose, yet which is widely taught in elementary schools today.
Another: "dropping atomic bombs on civilians in Japan was necessary to end WWII."
Perhaps in the future we'll have "family separation & the 2025 ICE crackdowns were necessary to end the immigration crisis," although I dearly hope not.
"Reparations for slavery aren't reasonable," is yet another...
I'll close this rambling with a question: what other fascist lies have you noticed that are normalized in America right now from past Trump-like leaders (or even from less overtly fascist institutions)?

Gestern jemandem gefolgt, heute geblockt*. Passiert in letzter Zeit immer öfter...
*weil Al Jazeera Propaganda retröt

Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-dear-leader-bondi-noem-republican-propaganda-1235356187/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p39#a250606p39

Propaganda and Information Dissemination in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Natural Language Processing of Russian and Western Twitter Narratives
Zaur Gouliev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01807

Propaganda and Information Dissemination in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Natural Language Processing of Russian and Western Twitter Narratives
The conflict in Ukraine has been not only characterised by military engagement but also by a significant information war, with social media platforms like X, formerly known as Twitter playing an important role in shaping public perception. This article provides an analysis of tweets from propaganda accounts and trusted accounts collected from the onset of the war, February 2022 until the middle of May 2022 with n=40,000 total tweets. We utilise natural language processing and machine learning a…

Looks like my #propaganda is working. When I switched from #GitHub to #Codeberg, I made some #stickers

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14522 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Biased by Design: Leveraging AI Inherent Biases to Enhance Critical Thinking of News Readers
This paper explores the design of a propaganda detection tool using Large Language Models (LLMs). Acknowledging the inherent biases in AI models, especially in political contexts, we investigate how these biases might be leveraged to enhance critical thinking in news consumption. Countering the typical view of AI biases as detrimental, our research proposes strategies of user choice and personalization in response to a user's political stance, applying psychological concepts of confirmation bia…

Irina Scherbakowa über die Proteste gegen das Abfeiern von Sergei Eisensteins ALEXANDER NEWSKI im Babylon Mitte.
#Erinnerungskultur

As things stand now, the only way to be (almost) certain something is legitimate is if you find it in the site and/or official account of the alledged maker of it. Otherwise, it's safer to assume it's fake.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06

Euronews targeted by anti-Moldova disinformation campaign
Pro-Russian actors have repeatedly used Euronews' likeness and visual identity in recent weeks to spread propaganda against various European countries. #EuroVerify

A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america.h…

Nearly All Remaining Voice of America Employees Could Be Fired Under Plan
A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

Analysis of LLM Bias (Chinese Propaganda & Anti-US Sentiment) in DeepSeek-R1 vs. ChatGPT o3-mini-high
PeiHsuan Huang, ZihWei Lin, Simon Imbot, WenCheng Fu, Ethan Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01814

Analysis of LLM Bias (Chinese Propaganda & Anti-US Sentiment) in DeepSeek-R1 vs. ChatGPT o3-mini-high
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly shape public understanding and civic decisions, yet their ideological neutrality is a growing concern. While existing research has explored various forms of LLM bias, a direct, cross-lingual comparison of models with differing geopolitical alignments-specifically a PRC-system model versus a non-PRC counterpart-has been lacking. This study addresses this gap by systematically evaluating DeepSeek-R1 (PRC-aligned) against ChatGPT o3-mini-high (non-PRC) for…

More depressing news as governments swallow propaganda from the nuclear power lobby.
Renewables won't deliver the power currently used, and projected, but nor will nuclear, which also depends on fossil fuels, uses a scarce and diminishing resource, and leaves a toxic legacy for which there is no adequate solution.
The only solution is radical energy descent.
Tide is turning in Europe and beyond in favour of nuclear power | Nuclear power | The Guardian

This is the modus operandi of most anti-vaxx propaganda and a core characteristic that links it to authoritarianism and Fascism IMHO:
Lies are accepted. "Evidence" only has to look scientific, it doesn't has to be actual science.
No false statement will ever be corrected..
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Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin (Benedict Smith/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/03/trump-official-shut-russia-propaganda-unit-kremlin-ties/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p43#a250603p43

It's only censorship if you dislike it, right?

»KI Business Studie – Trotz KI-Boom kaum Nachfrage nach KI-Experten:
In Deutschland werden noch kaum Jobs in der neuen Branche ausgeschrieben, vor allem in ländlichen Gebieten«
Ist dies nun überraschen vorhersehbar oder wieso ist dieser Hype nicht so populär wie die mit deren Propaganda vermitteln möchten?!??
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Studie: Trotz KI-Boom kaum Nachfrage nach KI-Experten
In Deutschland werden noch kaum Jobs in der neuen Branche ausgeschrieben, vor allem in ländlichen Gebieten

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14522 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Biased by Design: Leveraging AI Inherent Biases to Enhance Critical Thinking of News Readers
This paper explores the design of a propaganda detection tool using Large Language Models (LLMs). Acknowledging the inherent biases in AI models, especially in political contexts, we investigate how these biases might be leveraged to enhance critical thinking in news consumption. Countering the typical view of AI biases as detrimental, our research proposes strategies of user choice and personalization in response to a user's political stance, applying psychological concepts of confirmation bia…

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
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Het NOS journaal laat even weten wat 'gewone' Moskovieten van de Russische oorlog tegen Oekraine vinden. Ja, Rusland heeft gelijk, Oekraine heeft dit aan zichzelf te wijten etc. etc.
Maar het NOS journaal vergeet daarbij te vermelden dat deze Moskovieten bij een tegengeluid het risico lopen om 10 jaar dwangarbeid in de Oeral op te lopen wegens "landverraad'.
Is dit nou domheid, onachtzaamheid, of wat anders? Waarom de Putin propaganda ongefilterd doorgeven?

FediAntiSemitism / Kolektiva / 7. Oktober / Hamas-Propaganda
Der Link zu dem Post: #Kolektiva: https://kolektiva.social/@BSJ

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

Stalin’s 50th birthday celebration, in 1929, is considered the kickoff of his cult of personality.
Hitler’s 50th birthday military parade, in April 1939, was organized by the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels for maximum grandeur, including a motorcade of 50 white limousines.
Five months later, Germany invaded Poland.
Kim Jong-un changed Loyalty Oath Day from 1 January to his birthday, 8 January.
This February, the Republican US representative Claudia Tenney of Ne…

Hannah Arendt, as relevant as ever.
"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true…
The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on
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So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end

FediAntiSemitism / Kolektiva / 7. Oktober / Hamas-Propaganda
Blocken, melden, von hinten in die Knie treten. #Kolektiva #FediAntiSemitism

#Chatbots wie #ChatGPT, #Gemini, #Copilot benutzen gelegentlich russische Propaganda, wenn sie auf nordischen Sprachen antw…

Russisk propaganda infiltrerer nordiske KI-chatboter: En kartlegging av Pravda-nettverkets innflytelse
Oppdag hvordan russiske Pravda-nettsteder påvirker KI-chatboter på nordiske språk, ifølge en ny undersøkelse av nordiske faktasjekkere.