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“You give the public the ability to kidnap it & abduct it into their own narrative,” Avital said. What was made as a quickie experiment has become one of the most consequential #AI-generated videos to date, …serving as a piece of internet-native political #propaganda.

#Trump’s misleading #appropriation of the video was just the latest example of the new admin turning #digital #content, produced in-house or found online, into a form of #MAGA #agitprop.

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What NGOs like Greenpeace ultimately offer, according to @ClementSenechal, is “environmentalism as spectacle.”

'Of particular interest is Sénéchal’s treatment of the past and present of Greenpeace. Quite visibly at odds with his former employer, the author takes Greenpeace as representative of the decadence of official environmentalism. Eschewing a coherent critique of the environmental crisis, organizations like Greenpeace, according to Sénéchal, are more devoted to agitprop demonstrations and photo ops better geared to satisfying activist egos rather than advancing strategic goals.

'These contradictions were apparent from the 1970s':
jacobin.com/2025/03/environmen

@climate 🧵

jacobin.comWhy Environmentalists Are Still LosingDissatisfaction at established green parties and environmental NGOs has fed the rise of more confrontational forms of activism. The task can’t just be to raise awareness but to mobilize millions of people in fighting for their own interests.
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Will they uphold a commitment to #FreeSpeech, which all of them, in various ways, espouse, or is free speech just the pretext to undoing #social, #corporate, & #political norms that might have restrained their companies from fully hijacking America’s #attention? Will they fiddle w/the knobs of their #platforms, as #ElonMusk has done at X, to produce a chaotic #agitprop machine? Or are they just happy they no longer have to pay for #DEI consultants or deal with an aggressive #FTC?

The #NYTimes gets busted peddling #WarOnDrugs lies targeting #Mexico

"...Juana Peñaloza Ibarra, a precursor chemical analyst at the Navy Department, analyzed each of the images and videos published by The #NewYorkTimes to conclude that the report does not show a series of chemical precursors essential for the manufacture of fentanyl..." ...for a start.

Claudia Sheinbaum Debunks NY Times Report on #Fentanyl Production
scheerpost.com/2025/01/05/clau #DrugWars #Agitprop #Sinaloa #propagandaExposed

scheerpost.com · Claudia Sheinbaum Debunks NY Times Report on Fentanyl ProductionThe report comes just days after president-elect Donald Trump said he would impose a 25% tariff on Mexican products if the country did not stop fentanyl from entering the US from Mexico.

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