ENDNOTES for RED WHITE & BLIND

It is a unique challenge to provide sources in a book like this. A news source that I criticize in one place might be used as corroboration and support in other places. For this reason, I have endeavored to cite a broad variety of sources from all across our media landscape–a veritable Balanced Media Diet of citations.

Website links are current as of October 2022.

Introduction

1. Many of the men do deny involvement, and Virginia awaits a true day in court. Dershowitz, for his part, wrote a book attempting to refute the charges: Dershowitz, Alan. Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo. Hot Books. New York, NY. 2019.
2. “All Aboard The ‘Lolita Express’: Flight Logs Reveal the Many Trips Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz Took On Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Jet With Anonymous Women.” Daily Mail, January 22, 2015. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2922773
3. Trump flew on the Lolita Express many times in the 1990s, but he seems to have broken with Epstein in the early 2000s and even kicked him out of his house at one point. Crane-Newman, Molly and John Annese. “Trump Took Several Trips on Epstein’s Jet: Flight Logs.” New York Daily News, December 20, 2021. www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyccrime/Ny-maxwell-trump-flight-logs-20211221-zcroqrt42rex7mld73yx6nyh7a-story.html
4. Kevin Spacey, John Glenn, Yitzhak Perlman, George Mitchell, etc. Villarreal, Daniel. “Bill Clinton Went to Jeffrey Epstein’s Island With 2 ‘Young Girls,’ Virginia Giuffre Says.” Newsweek, July 30, 2020. www.newsweek.com/bill-clinton-went-jeffreyepsteins-island-2-young-girls-virginia-giuffre-says-1521845
5. The New York Times ran two articles on Epstein across the entirety of 2005 and 2006. Most national outlets ran none. One piece flattered Epstein’s lavish lifestyle, the other mildly questioned his lenient sentence. Landon, Thomas Jr. “Working for Top Bosses on Wall St. Has Its Perks.” New York Times, February 5, 2005. www.nytimes.com/2005/02/05/business/working-for-top-bosses-on-wall-st-has-its-perks.html. Goodnough, Abby. “Questions of Preferential Treatment Are Raised in Florida Sex Case.” New York Times, September 3, 2006. www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/us/03epstein.html
6. Grigoriadis, Vanessa. “Billionaires Are Free.” New York, October 26, 2006. www.nymag.com/guides/money/2006/23463/
7. Trotter, JK. “Flight Data From Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Jets Show a Lavish Travel Schedule As the Walls Closed In.” The Insider, Jul 12, 2019. www.insider.com/jeffrey-epsteins-private-jet-flight-data-2019-7
8. Giuffre, Virginia Roberts. The Billionaire’s Playboy Club. Draft of memoir, unsealed court document. archive.org/details/billionaires-playboy-club_20210502_0041
9. “Leaked ABC News Insider Recording Exposes #EpsteinCoverup ‘We Had Clinton, We Had Everything.’” Project Veritas, November 5, 2019. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lfwkTsJGYA
10. Brown, Julie K. “Perversion of Justice: How a Future Trump Cabinet Member Gave a Serial Sex Abuser The Deal of a Lifetime.” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html
11. Keek, Jorge. “The Breakdown of All the Newest Ghislaine Maxwell Claims.” Film Daily, August 10, 2020. filmdaily.co/obsessions/true-crime/ghislaine-maxwell-claims/
12. Colen, Aaron. “Frustrated ABC News Anchor Caught On Hot Mic Saying Network Suppressed Epstein Story for Years.” Blaze, November 5, 2019. www.theblaze.com/news/frustrated-abc-news-anchor-caught-on-hot-mic-saying-network-suppressed-epstein-story-for-years
13. Nathan, Sara. “ABC Bosses Scramble After Amy Robach’s Comments About Jeffrey Epstein Leak.” New York Post, November 5, 2019. pagesix.com/2019/11/05/abc-bosses-scramble-after-amy-robachs-comments-about-jeffrey-epstein-leak
14. Brown, Julie K. Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. Dey Street Books. New York, NY. 2021.
15. Schindler, John R. “It Sure Looks Like Jeffrey Epstein Was a Spy–But Whose?” The Observer, July 10, 2019. observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligence-work
16. Folkenflik, David. “A Dead Cat, A Lawyer’s Call And A 5-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short On Epstein.” NPR, August 22, 2019. www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753390385/a-dead-cat-a-lawyers-call-and-a-5-figure-donation-how-media-fell-short-on-epstei
    
    

Chapter 1: Uniformity and Obedience

1. Frischknecht, Friedrich. “The History of Biological Warfare.” European Molecular Biology Reports, June 4, 2003. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326439
2. Clark, David P. and Nanette J. Pazdernik. “Biological Warfare: Infectious Disease and Bioterrorism.” Biotechnology, July 24, 2015. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150198
3. Tungul, Jade. “Inside the US Government’s Top-Secret Bioweapons Lab.” Business Insider, Apr 11, 2021. www.businessinsider.com/us-government-tests-deadly-chemical-warfare-agents-utah-2019-10
4. Qiu, Jane. “How China’s ‘Bat Woman’ Hunted Down Viruses From SARS to the New Coronavirus.” Scientific American, June 1, 2020. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1
5. See Qiu, above.
6. Jacobsen, Rowan. “Inside the Risky Bat-Virus Engineering That Links America to Wuhan.” MIT Technology Review, June 29, 2021. www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan
7. Guterl, Fred. “Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab With U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research.” Newsweek, April 28, 2020. www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
8. Branswell, Helen. ”NIH Awards $7.5 Million Grant to Ecohealth Alliance, Months After Uproar Over Political Interference.” Stat News, August 27, 2020. www.statnews.com/2020/08/27/nih-awards-grant-to-ecohealth-alliance-months-after-uproar-over-political-interference
9. Daszak, Peter, Charles Calisher, Christian Drosten, et al. “Statement in Support of the Scientists, Public Health Professionals, and Medical Professionals of China Combatting Covid-19.” The Lancet, February 19, 2020. www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext
10. See Daszak, above.
11. Bentley-York, Jacob. “Nearly All Lancet Scientists Who Publicly Trashed Covid Lab Leak Theory Have Links to Wuhan Research, Report Says.” The Sun, September 11, 2021. www.the-sun.com/news/3642216/lancet-scientists-links-wuhan-research-report-says/
12. For instance: Husseini, Sam. “Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million in Pentagon Funding and Militarized Pandemic Science.” Independent Science News, December 16, 2020. www.independentsciencenews.org/news/peter-daszaks-ecohealth-alliance-has-hidden-almost-40-million-in-pentagon-funding
13. “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Nature. March 17, 2020. www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
14. Brumfiel, Geoff and Emily Kwong. “Virus Researchers Cast Doubt on Theory of Coronavirus Lab Accident.” NPR, April 23, 2020. www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/23/841729646/virus-researchers-cast-doubt-on-theory-of-coronavirus-lab-accident
15. Firozi, Paulina. “Tom Cotton Keeps Repeating a Coronavirus Fringe Theory That Scientists Have Disputed.” Washington Post, February 17, 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotton-coronavirus-conspiracy
16. Stevenson, Alexandra. “Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins.” New York Times, February 17, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronavirus-tom-cotton-china.html
17. Sanger, David. “Pompeo Ties Coronavirus to China Lab Despite Spy Agencies’ Uncertainty.” New York Times, May 3, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/politics/coronavirus-pompeo-wuhan-china-lab.html
18. Godoy, Maria. “Group Whose NIH Grant for Virus Research Was Revoked Just Got a New Grant.” NPR, August 29, 2020. www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/29/907237520/group-whose-nih-grant-for-virus-research-was-revoked-just-got-a-new-grant
19. Alex Paterson & Brennan Suen. “Joe Rogan Spreads Unfounded Conspiracy Theory That Covid-19 Started in a Lab.” Media Matters, September 23, 2020. www.mediamatters.org/joe-rogan-experience/joe-rogan-spreads-unfounded-conspiracy-theory-covid-19-started-lab
20. Castro-Chavez, Fernando. “COVID-19: Hypothesis of the Lab Origin Versus a Zoonotic Event Which Can Also Be of a Lab Origin.” Global Journal of Science Frontier Research. Volume 20, Issue 3. 2020. globaljournals.org/GJSFR_Volume20/2-Anticovidian-v-2-COVID-19.pdf
21. Bigtree, Del. “Covid Origin Controversy Reignited.” The Highwire, April 2, 2021. thehighwire.com/videos/covid-origin-controversy-reignited
22. Durden, Tyler. “Is This the Man Behind the Global Coronavirus Pandemic?” Zero Hedge, January 29, 2020.
23. Hawkins, Derek. “Twitter Bans Zero Hedge Account After It Doxxed a Chinese Researcher Over Coronavirus.” Washington Post, February 1, 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/01/twitter-zero-hedge-coronavirus
24. Murdock, Jason. “Twitter Suspends Account of Chinese Virologist Who Claimed Coronavirus Was Made in a Lab.” Newsweek, September 16, 2020. www.newsweek.com/twitter-suspends-dr-li-meng-yan-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-covid19-1532193
25. See Brumfiel, above.
26. The Highwire, April 2, 2021. See Bigtree, above.
27. Baker, Nicholson. “The Lab-Leak Hypothesis.” New York Magazine, January 4, 2021. nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html
28. Quay, Steven and Richard Muller. “The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak.” Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2021. www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-suggests-a-wuhan-lab-leak-11622995184
29. Regalado, Antonio. “No One Can Find The Animal That Gave People Covid-19.” Technology Review, March 26, 2021. www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021263/bat-covid-coronavirus-cause-origin-wuhan
30. Jacobsen, Rowen. ”Inside the Risky Bat-Virus Engineering That Links America to Wuhan.” Technology Review. January 29, 2020. www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan
31. Chan, Alina and Matt Ridley. Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. Harper Perennial. New York. 2022.
32. “New York Times Rushed To Publish Studies Favoring Covid Market Theory According to Molecular Biologist.” Rising, March 9, 2022. youtu.be/mZfNDQwWWJE
33. Downey, Caroline. “Flashback: Fauci Has Freudian Slip, Starts to Say U.S. Collaborated With ‘Chinese Communists’ on Gain-of-Function Research.” National Review, January 3, 2022. news.yahoo.com/flashback-fauci-freudian-slip-starts-224055885.html
34. Fu, Angela. “Dr. Anthony Fauci Calls Sen. Rand Paul’s Claim That NIH Funded Risky Virus Research at Wuhan Lab ‘Preposterous.’” Poynter, May 11, 2021. www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/dr-anthony-fauci-calls-sen-rand-pauls-claim-that-nih-funded-risky-virus-research-at-wuhan-lab-preposterous
35. Hains, Tim. “Fauci: Attacking Me Is Attacking Science.” Real Clear Politics, June 9, 2021. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/06/09/fauci_attacking_me_is_attacking_science.html
36. Kakutani, Yuichiro. “NYT Quietly Scrubs Chinese Propaganda.” Washington Free Beacon. August 4, 2020. freebeacon.com/media/nyt-quietly-scrubs-chinese-propaganda
37. Downey, Caroline. “NIH Admits to Funding Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan, Says EcoHealth Violated Reporting Requirements.” National Review, October 21, 2021. www. nationalreview.com/news/nih-admits-to-funding-gain-of-function-research-in-wuhan-says-ecohealth-violated-reporting-requirements
38. Dunleavy, Jerry. “Fauci Shut Down Lab Leak Theory Despite Scientists Lending It Credence, Emails Show.” Washington Examiner, January 11, 2022. www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/fauci-shut-down-lab-leak-theory-despite-scientists-lending-it-credence-emails-show
39. Ruskin, Gary. “FOI Documents on Origins of Covid-19, Gain-of-Function Research and Biolabs.” US Right to Know, April 8, 2022. usrtk.org/biohazards/foi-documents-on-origins-of-sars-cov-2-risks-of-gain-of-function-research-and-biosafety-labs
40. Tinker, Ben. “Fauci Says Natural Origins Theory of Coronavirus Is Still the Most Likely.” CNN, July 17, 2021. www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/politics/fauci-covid-natural-origins-theory/index.html
41. Marquardt, Alex and Jeremy Herb. “US Intelligence Community Review Does Not Determine Origin of Covid-19.” CNN, August 27, 2021. www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/politics/us-intelligence-covid-origins-report/index.html
42. Ladden-Hall, Dan. “Lancet Report Claiming COVID Could Have Come From U.S. Lab Met With Uproar.” Daily Beast, September 15, 2022. news.yahoo.com/lancet-report-claiming-covid-could-132931783.html
43. Zimmer, Carl and Benjamin Mueller. “New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin.” New York Times, February 27, 2022. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/26/science/covid-virus-wuhan-origins.html
44. Morris, Emma-Jo and Gabrielle Fonrouge. “Smoking-Gun Email Reveals How Hunter Biden Introduced Ukrainian Businessman to VP Dad.” New York Post, October 14, 2020. nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad
45. Griffith, Keith. “Twitter Unlocks New York Post’s Main Account Following Two-Week Free Speech Stalemate Over Hunter Biden Articles After the Big Tech Goliath Censored Them.” Daily Mail, October, 30 2020. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8899105/Twitter-buckles-unlocks-New-York-Posts-main-account-two-week-stalemate.html
46. Solomon, John. “Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian Nightmare: A Closed Probe Is Revived.” The Hill, April 1, 2019. thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived
47. Perloff, James. “Council On Foreign Relations.” The New American, July 23, 2009. thenewamerican.com/council-on-foreign-relations
48. Vogel, Kenneth. “Trump, Biden and Ukraine: Sorting Out the Accusations.” New York Times, September 22, 2019. www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/us/politics/biden-ukraine-trump.html
49. See Vogel, above.
50. Rid, Thomas. “Insisting That the Hunter Biden Laptop Is Fake Is a Trap. So Is Insisting That It’s Real.” Washington Post, October 20, 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/24/hunter-biden-laptop-disinformation
51. Risen, James. “Joe Biden, His Son and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch.” New York Times, December 8, 2015. www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html
52. Fearnow, Benjamin. “Hunter Biden Emails Have ‘Nothing to Do’ With Russian Disinformation, National Intelligence Director Says.” Newsweek, October 19, 2020. www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-emails-have-nothing-do-russian-disinformation-national-intelligence-director-says-1540255
53. Bertrand, Natasha. “Hunter Biden Story Is Russian Disinfo, Dozens of Former Intel Officials Say.” Politico, October 19, 2020. www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276
54. “Hunter Biden’s New Hilarious Answer About His Laptop.” Jimmy Dore Show, April 3, 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=epw4CTdtZQc
55. Schreckinger, Ben. The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power. Grand Central Publishing. New York, New York. 2021.
56. Post Editorial Board. ”Washington Post, New York Times Finally Admit Hunter’s Laptop Is Real–But Only To Protect Joe Biden Some More.” New York Post, April 2, 2022. nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-hunters-laptop-is-real-but-only-to-protect-joe-biden
57. Bond, Shannon. “Facebook and Twitter Limit Sharing ‘New York Post’ Story About Joe Biden.” NPR, October 14, 2020. www.npr.org/2020/10/14/923766097/facebook-and-twitter-limit-sharing-new-york-post-story-about-joe-biden
58. Greenwald, Glenn. “New Proof Emerges About the Hunter Biden Laptop: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media Fraud.” System Update, September 2, 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I31O5_X4P1Y
59. Lubold, G. Strobel, W. “Russian Spy Unit Paid Taliban to Attack Americans, U.S. Intelligence Says.” Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2020. www.wsj.com/articles/russian-spy-unit-paid-taliban-to-attack-americans-u-s-intelligence-says-11593214584
60. Savage, C., Schmitt, E., & Schwirtz, M. “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill Troops, U.S. Intelligence Says.” New York Times, June 26, 2020. archive.is/RJOQS
61. Nakashima, E., DeYoung, K., Ryan, M. Hudson, J. “Russian Bounties to Taliban-Linked Militants Resulted in Deaths of U.S. Troops, According to Intelligence Assessments.” Washington Post, June 28, 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-bounties-to-taliban-linked-militants-resulted-in-deaths-of-us-troops-according-to-intelligence-assessments/2020/06/28/74ffaec2-b96a-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html
62. Johnstone, Caitlin. “This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda at Its Most Vile.” Greanville Post, July 3, 2020. www.greanvillepost.com/2020/07/03/this-russia-afghanistan-story-is-western-propaganda-at-its-most-vile
63. Greenwald, Glen. “Liz Cheney Lied About Her Role in Spreading the Discredited CIA ‘Russian Bounty’ Story.” Substack, May 14, 2020. greenwald.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-lied-about-her-role-in
64. Rawnsley, Adam. “U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops.” Daily Beast, April 15, 2021. www.thedailybeast.com/us-intel-walks-back-claim-russians-put-bounties-on-american-troops
65. Dilanian, K. & Memoli, M. “Remember Those Russian Bounties for Dead U.S. Troops? Biden Admin Says the CIA Intel is not Conclusive.” NBC News, April 15, 2021. www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-securityremember-those-russian-bounties-dead-u-s-troops-biden-admin-n1264215
66. American Press Institute. “What Is the Purpose of Journalism?” www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/what-is-journalism/purpose-journalism
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68. Greenwald, Glenn. “Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial.” Substack, December 10, 2021. greenwald.substack.com/p/julian-assange-loses-appeal-british
69. The warnings come when telling her viewers that social media isn’t censoring enough, such as on May 4, 2021 and August 27, 2021. “Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show, 5/4/21.” Rachel Maddow Show. www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-5-4-21-n1266364 and Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show, 8/27/21.” Rachel Maddow Show. www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-8-27-21-n1277999.
70. Warzel, Charlie. “Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole.” New York Times, February 18, 2021. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html
    
    

Chapter 2: A History of Lies

1. “An Impeachable Offense? Bush Admits Authorizing NSA to Eavesdrop on Americans Without Court Approval.” Democracy Now, December 19, 2005. www.democracynow.org/2005/12/19/an_impeachable_offense_bush_admits_authorizing
2. Protecting Our Civil Liberties: The Core of Democracy, July 25–26, 2003 conference. www.grassrootspeace.org/PDFfiles/GCCTraprockConference.pdf
3. Hersh, Seymour. “Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years.” New York Times, December 22, 1974. www.nytimes.com/1974/12/22/archives/huge-cia-operation-reported-in-u-s-against-antiwar-forces-other.html
4. Hersh, Seymour. “C.I.A. Is Linked to Strikes in Chile That Beset Allende.” New York Times, September 20, 1974. www.nytimes.com/1974/09/20/archives/cia-is-linked-to-strikes-in-chile-that-beset-allende.html
5. Hersh, Seymour. “Kissinger Called Chile Strategist.” New York Times, September 15, 1974. www.nytimes.com/1974/09/15/archives/kissinger-called-chile-strategist-covert-cia-activities.html
6. Hersh, Seymour. “C.I.A. Said to Have Asked Funds for Chile Rightists in ‘75.” New York Times, October 21, 1974. www.nytimes.com/1974/10/21/archives/cia-said-to-have-asked-funds-for-chile-rightists-in-73-a.html
7. Operation Mockingbird is sometimes confused with Project Mockingbird, a related covert operation whereby intelligence agents wiretapped journalists’ phones in the 1960s. This was ostensibly done to identify sources of leaked information but also obtained forthcoming coverage before it was published.
8. Bernstein, Carl. “The CIA and the Media: How America’s Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up.” Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977. Retrieved at: www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977
9. Church Committee Final Report, Vol 1: Foreign and Military Intelligence, p. 455 www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_I.pdf
10. Ginzberg, Gary. “A Complicated Life Frank G. Wisner, Sr..” Advisors Magazine, Decem-ber 3, 2019. www.advisorsmagazine.com/trending/23537-a-complicated-life-frank-g-wisner-sr
11. Adams, Sandi. “Operation Mockingbird – What Was It? CIA Mind-Control and Propa-ganda.” July 18, 2020. sandiadams.net/operation-mockingbird-what-was-it-cia-mind-control-and-propaganda
12. Wilford, Hugh. The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America. Harvard University Press. London, United Kingdom. 2008. pp226-7.
13. Davis, Deborah. Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and the Washington Post. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. New York, NY. 1979. p 138-9.
14. See Bernstein, above.
15. See Bernstein, above.
16. Goodman, Amy and David. Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back. Hyperion. New York, New York. 2006. p. 95.
17. See Bernstein, above.
18. The full final report is at: www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rp3h/lansberry/Church_ Committee_I.pdf.
19. See Bernstein, above.
20. Horrock, Nicholas. “CIA to Stop Enlisting Agents From the Press and Church.” New York Times, February 12, 1976. www.nytimes.com/1976/02/12/archives/cia-to-stop-enlist-ing-agents-from-the-press-and-the-church-cia-to.html
21. Shane, Scott. “That Time the C.I.A. Tried to Recruit Me: Our National Security Reporter on Covering Spies.” New York Times, February 14, 2018. www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/insider/are-spies-like-us-a-national-security-reporter-says-yes-and-no.html
22. This quote has been almost entirely scrubbed from the internet, but it’s still captured in a video on Operation Mockingbird by author Mark Dice. The quote starts at 1:35. Dice, Mark. “Operation Mockingbird: The CIA’s Covert Media Manipulation Program” YouTube, June 21, 2021. youtu.be/3KY0ktXAuvc
23. Norton, Ben. “Vanderbilt Oligarch Heir Anderson Cooper Worked at CIA in College.” Grayzone, February 25, 2020. thegrayzone.com/2020/02/25/vanderbilt-anderson-cooper-cia-college
24. Bishop, Tom. “US Psychological Warfare Experts Worked at CNN and NPR During Kosovo War.” World Socialist Website, April 18, 2000. www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/04/cnn-a18.html
25. “Why Were Government Propaganda Experts Working On News at CNN?” Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, March 27, 2000. fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/why-were-govern-ment-propaganda-experts-working-on-news-at-cnn
26. Borger, Julian. “CNN Let Army Staff Into Newsroom.” Guardian, April 11, 2000. www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/12/julianborger
27. See Norton, above.
28. Mazzetti, Mark and Borzou Daragahi. “U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press.” Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2005. www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-30-fg-infowar30-story.html
29. Barstow, David. “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand.” New York Times, April 20, 2008. www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html
30. “Pentagon Sets Sights On Public Opinion.” Associated Press, August 5, 2010. www.nbc-news.com/id/wbna29040299
31. Thayer, Joziah. “Birds of a Feather Flock Together Under the Mockingbird’s Wing - DD19 Entree.” Hive Blog, 2020. hive.blog/deepdives/@wedacoalition/birds-of-a-feather-flock-together-under-the-mockingbird-s-wing-dd19-entree
32. “European Media Writing Pro-US Stories Under CIA Pressure - German Journalist.” RT, October 18, 2014. newtube.app/user/yabba/EESpFOz
33. See RT, above.
34. Tracy, James. “English Translation of Udo Ulfkotte’s ‘Bought Journalists’ Suppressed?” Information Clearinghouse, August 1, 2017. www.informationclearinghouse.info/47560.htm
35. Valania, Jonathan. “L.A. Times Disowns Reporter Outed as a CIA Collaborator.” Huffington Post, September 5, 2014. www.huffpost.com/entry/la-times-disowns-reporter_b_5770388
36. Silverstein, Ken. “The CIA’s Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication.” Intercept, September 4, 2014. theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication
37. See Valania, above.
38. Maté, Aaron. “The Rise and Fall of the ‘Steele Dossier’: A Case Study in Mass Hysteria and Media Credulity.” Nation, January 11, 2021. www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-russiagate-steele-dossier
39. Greenwald, Glenn. “The Inspector General’s Report on 2016 FBI Spying Reveals a Scandal of Historic Magnitude: Not Only for the FBI but Also the U.S. Media.” Intercept, December 12, 2019. theintercept.com/2019/12/12/the-inspector-generals-report-on-2016-fb-i-spying-reveals-a-scandal-of-historic-magnitude-not-only-for-the-fbi-but-also-the-us-media/
40. Mangan, Doug. “Trump-Russia Steele Dossier Analyst Igor Danchenko Pleads Not Guilty in FBI Lie Case Prosecuted by John Durham.” CNBC, November 10, 2021. www.cnbc.com/2021/11/10/trump-russia-dossier-analyst-igor-danchenko-arraigned-in-fbi-lie-case-.html
41. Dore, Jimmy. “Another RussiaGate Source Arrested for Lying!” Jimmy Dore Show, November 5, 2021. youtu.be/JtWtpQ67BRI
42. “Dirty Tricks by Clintons Shaped Liberal Opinion and News Coverage of Trump for Years.” Washington Examiner, November 17, 2021. www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/dirty-tricks-by-clintons-shaped-liberal-opinion-and-news-coverage-of-trump-for-years
43. Hudson, John. “U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans.” Foreign Policy, July 14, 2013. foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans
44. Cushing, Tim. “‘Anti-Propaganda’ Ban Repealed, Freeing State Dept. To Direct Its Broadcasting Arm at American Citizens.” TechDirt, July 15, 2013. www.techdirt.com/2013/07/15/anti-propaganda-ban-repealed-freeing-state-dept-to-direct-its-broadcasting-arm-american-citizens
45. Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act. S.3274 – 114th Congress (2015-2016). www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3274
46. Swann, Ben. “U.S. Can Legally Propagandize Its Own Citizens.” Reality Check. August 14, 2018.
47. Goldenziel, Jill and Manal Cheema. “The New Fighting Words?: How U.S. Law Hampers the Fight Against Information Warfare.” Journal of Constitutional Law, November 2019. This is a naive and gullible piece dressed up as a serious academic consideration; the authors make the outrageous suggestion that because of Russian attempts to interfere in our political debate we should roll back American guarantees of Free Speech and privacy.
48. A partisan but decent rendition here: Hamilton, John and Kevin Kosar. “Sad! A Brief History Of White House Propaganda From Teddy Roosevelt To Donald Trump.” The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, November 12, 2020. thebulletin.org/2020/11/sad-a-brief-history-of-white-house-propaganda-from-teddy-roosevelt-to-donald-trump
49. “Senate Select on Intelligence Volume 2: Russia’s Use of Social Media with Additional Views.” November 10, 2020. www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf
50. Maté, Aaron. “New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics.” The Nation, December 28, 2018. www.thenation.com/article/archive/russiagate-elections-interference
51. Stein, Jeff. “Study: Hillary Clinton’s TV Ads Were Almost Entirely Policy-Free.” Vox, March 8, 2017. www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/8/14848636/hillary-clinton-tv-ads
52. Constitutional Rights Foundation. “Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution in Europe.” Winter 2009. www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-24-3-b-gutenberg-and-the-printing-revolution-in-europe
53. History of Spain. “The Spanish Inquisition III.” August 9, 2021. historyofspain.es/en/video/the-spanish-inquisition-iii
54. CIA record #104-10406-10110. “Countering Criticism of the Warren Report.” (PSYCH. 1967) conspiracy-theories.eu/countering-criticism-of-the-warren-report-psych-1967
55. deHaven-Smith, Lance. Conspiracy Theory in America. University of Texas Press. Austin, Texas. 2013.
56. Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penguin. London, United Kingdom. 1949.
57. “The Danger is Now: International Blasphemy Rights Day 2021.” Center for Inquiry, September 30, 2021. centerforinquiry.org/news/the-danger-is-now-international-blasphemy-rights-day-2021
58. Smith, A. (1827). An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. University Press for T. Nelson and P. Brown. Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
59. Beaumont, Peter. “Afghanistan Papers Detail US Dysfunction: ‘We Did Not Know What We Were Doing.’” The Guardian, December 14, 2019. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/14/afghanistan-papers-detail-us-dysfunction-we-did-not-know-what-we-were-doing. But it was worse than that. Craig Whitlock’s book The Afghanistan Papers (Simon & Schuster, 2021) recounts the drugs and corruption that actually ruled the war while the US government and media presented a different picture.
60. Kitman, Jamie Lincoln. “The Secret History of Lead.” The Nation, March 2, 2000. www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lead
61. Remembering the Phoebus Cartel: “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.” Veritaseum, March 26, 2021. youtu.be/j5v8D-alAKE
62. Mann, Brian. “Four U.S. Companies Will Pay $26 Billion To Settle Claims They Fueled The Opioid Crisis.” NPR Morning Edition. www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082901958/opioid-settlement-johnson-26-billion
    
    

Chapter 3: Bias, Innocent or Nefarious

1. “Former CIA Agent John Stockwell Talks about How the CIA Worked in Vietnam and Elsewhere.” King Rose Archives. Interview: February 7, 1983. Retrieved: June 28, 2021. youtu.be/NK1tfkESPVY?t=103
2. Cohen, Mitchel. “How Bush Sr. Sold the Gulf War.” Counterpunch, December 28, 2002. www.counterpunch.org/2002/12/28/how-bush-sr-sold-the-gulf-war
3. See Cohen, above.
4. Tisdall, Simon. “Superpowers Unite on Iraq.” The Guardian, August 3, 1990. www.theguardian.com/world/1990/aug/03/iraq.davidhirst
5. Holland, Joshua. “The First Iraq War Was Also Sold to the Public Based on a Pack of Lies.” Bill Moyers Show, June 27, 2014. billmoyers.com/2014/06/27/the-first-iraq-war-was-also-sold-to-the-public-based-on-a-pack-of-lies
6. Regan, Tom “When Contemplating War, Beware of Babies in Incubators.” Christian Science Monitor, September 6, 2002. www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html
7. See Regan, above.
8. Stein, Jonathan and Tim Dickinson. “Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq.” Mother Jones, September 2006. www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline
9. Too many to list. A quick sample:
10. Michael & Judith Miller. “Threats And Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts.” New York Times, September 8, 2002. www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-iraqis-us-says-hussein-intensifies-quest-for-bomb-parts.html
11. John. “The World; How Many People Has Hussein Killed?” New York Times, January 26, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/weekinreview/the-world-how-many-people-has-hussein-killed.html
12. Condoleeza. “Why We Know Iraq Is Lying.” New York Times, January 23, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/opinion/why-we-know-iraq-is-lying.html
13. Iraqi Scientist Says U.S. Unlikely to Find Biological Weapons.” New York Times, April 29, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/international/middleeast/iraqi-scientist-says-us-unlikely-to-find-biological.html
14. Judith. “Aftereffects: Germ Weapons; Leading Iraqi Scientist Says He Lied to U.N. Inspectors.” New York Times, April 27, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/world/aftereffects-germ-weapons-leading-iraqi-scientist-says-he-lied-to-un-inspectors.html
15. Pollack, Kenneth. “Saddam’s Bombs? We’ll Find Them.” New York Times, June 20, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/opinion/saddam-s-bombs-we-ll-find-them.html and Miller, Judith. “Aftereffects: Prohibited Weapons; Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, An Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert.” New York Times, April 21, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/world/aftereffects-prohibited-weapons-illicit-arms-kept-till-eve-war-iraqi-scientist.html
16. Miller, Judith. “Threats And Responses: Chemical Weapons; Iraq Said To Try To Buy Antidote Against Nerve.” New York Times, November 12, 2002. www.nytimes.com/2002/11/12/world/threats-responses-chemical-weapons-iraq-said-try-buy-antidote-against-nerve-gas.html
17. Miller, Judith. “Defectors Bolster U.S. Case Against Iraq, Officials Say.” New York Times, January 24, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/world/threats-responses-intelligence-defectors-bolster-us-case-against-iraq-officials.html
18. Imperial War Museums. “5 Photographs From the Day the World Said No to War.” www. iwm.org.uk/history/5-photographs-from-the-day-the-world-said-no-to-war
19. United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14878, Senate Reports Nos. 343-373. (n.d.). (n.p.): Government Printing Office.
20. Woodward, B.. Plan of Attack. Simon & Schuster. London, UK. 2012.
21. Powell, C. Remarks to the United Nations Security Council. [speech video recording]. February 5, 2003.
22. Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate., US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 108th Cong. (2003) (testimony of Robert Mueller III.) February 11, 2003. www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/current-and-projected-national-security-threats-united-states-february-11-2003
23. Interesting to note that coverage of the Ukraine debate 20 years later was so similar. No anti-war voices on MSNBC or CNN. Rendall, Steve. “Amplifying Officials, Squelching Dissent.” Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), May 2003. fair.org/extra/amplifying-officials-squelching-dissent
24. Stiglitz, Joseph and Linda Bilmes. The Three Trillion Dollar War. W. W. Norton, New York, NY. 2008. Nobel Prize economists estimate the true cost to the United States for the Iraq War.
25. Black, Crofton, Abigail Fielding-Smith and Jon Ungoed-Thomas. “$540 Million Covert PR Ops in Iraq for Pentagon.” The Sunday Times, October 2, 2016. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-bell-ran-540m-covert-pr-ops-in-iraq-for-pentagon-m5js07xtr
26. Norton, Ben. “U.S. Paid P.R. Firm $540 Million To Make Fake Al-Qaida Videos in Iraq Propaganda Program.” Salon, October 3, 2016. www.salon.com/2016/10/03/u-s-paid-p-r-firm-540-million-to-make-fake-al-qaida-videos-in-iraq-propaganda-program
27. “Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War: Study Finds Widespread Misperceptions on Iraq.” World Public Opinion Survey, October 2, 2003. web.archive.org/web/20061008020042/http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/102.php
28. Piller, Charles and Doug Smith. “Unintended Victims of Gates Foundation Generosity.” Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2007 www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2007-dec-16-la-na-gates16dec16-story.html
29. See Piller, above.
30. Martin, Michel. “Bill Gates Weighs In on ‘How To Avoid A Climate Disaster’ With New Book.” NPR, March 14, 2021. www.npr.org/2021/03/14/977215406/bill-gates-on-new-book-how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster
31. MacLeod, Alan. “Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets.” MintPress News, November 15th, 2021. www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943
32. See MacLeod, above.
33. Schwab, Tim. “While the Poor Get Sick, Bill Gates Just Gets Richer.” Nation, October 5, 2020. www.thenation.com/article/economy/bill-gates-investments-covid
34. See MacLeod, above.
35. “Gates Foundation, Viacom Partner to Insert Educational Messages Into Television Programming.” Philanthropy News Digest, April 3, 2009. philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-viacom-partner-to-insert-educational-messages-into-television-programming
36. Brenan, Megan. “Americans Remain Distrustful of Mass Media.” Gallup, September 30, 2020. news.gallup.com/poll/321116/americans-remain-distrustful-mass-media.aspx
37. McKennett, Hannah, and John Kuroski. “The Gulf of Tonkin Incident: The Lie That Sparked the Vietnam War.” All That Is Interesting, September 10, 2019. allthatsinteresting.com/gulf-of-tonkin
38. Paterson, Pat, Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy. “The Truth About Tonkin.” Naval History Magazine, Volume 22, Number 1. February 2008. www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2008/february/truth-about-tonkin
39. Faulder, Dominic. “US Bombing of Cambodia–Still Counting the Dead.” The Irrawaddy, Volume 9, Number 8. October 2001. www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=2412
    

Chapter 4: It’s Not About the Money, It’s About the Money

1. Brasunas, Tony. “Please Recognize Your Privilege If You Can Afford 8 Years of Hillary Clinton and the Status Quo.” Huffington Post, April 1, 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/please-recognize-privilege-8-years-of-hillary-clinton_b_9591922
2. Brasunas, Tony. “Only Voter Suppression Can Stop Bernie Sanders.” Huffington Post, April 26, 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/only-voter-suppression-can-stop-bernie-sanders_b_9780128
3. Brasunas, Tony. “Is Democracy Dead in California?” Huffington Post, June 28, 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/is-democracy-dead-in-california_b_5772c94fe4b04650f1505de2
4. Brasunas, Tony. “Exit Polls Are the Thing Wherein to Catch the Conscience of Elections.” Huffington Post, July 5, 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/exit-polls-are-the-thing-wherein-to-catch-the-conscience_b_5772e818e4b00eaa47881646
5. Brasunas, Tony. “The Deeper Reason Many Intelligent Progressives and Independents Will Not Support Hillary Clinton.” Medium, originally Huffington Post, July 19, 2016. tonybrasunas.medium.com/the-deeper-reason-independents-and-progressives-will-not-support-hillary-clinton-db79a10b23c7
6. See Brasunas, above.
7. In 2003, Barbara Streisand attempted to censor a photo of her lavish Malibu home that an aerial photographer had placed in a document about the California coastline. Prior to her attempts to remove the photo from the internet, it had only been downloaded six times. Her demand that it be removed resulted in widespread media coverage and over 400,000 downloads of the photo. Cacciottolo, Mario. “The Streisand Effect: When Censorship Backfires.” BBC News. June 15, 2012. www.bbc.com/news/uk-18458567
8. Sottile, Chiara and Daniel Medina. “Pipeline Protesters Say Police Nearly Blew Off Woman’s Arm.” NBC News, November 22, 2016. www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dakota-pipeline-protests/pipeline-protesters-decry-excessive-force-after-woman-s-arm-blown-n687326
9. The movement began in April and attracted national attention in independent media, but corporate media, including NPR and New York Times, did not send anyone to Standing Rock until late August. CNN coverage was done by a local affiliate. NBC published one notable interview and sent in reporters at the end of October.
10. Moynihan, Colin. “Cause of Severe Injury at Pipeline Protest Becomes New Point of Dispute.” New York Times, November 24, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/us/dakota-pipeline-sophia-wilansky.html?_r=0
11. “Statement by Father of Sophia Wilansky, Critically Injured at NoDAPL Action.” Indian Country Today, November 22, 2016. indiancountrytoday.com/archive/statement-by-father-of-sophia-wilansky-critically-injured-at-nodapl-action-p64B2D_NrU2BsLdPqtZtig
12. Reclaiming Native Truths. Changing the Narrative About Native Americans: A Guide for Allies. June, 2018. rnt.firstnations.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/MessageGuide-Allies-screen.pdf
13. “Trust in Mass Media Returns to All-Time Low.” Gallup, September 17, 2014. news.gallup.com/poll/176042/trust-mass-media-returns-time-low.aspx
14. “Americans Remain Distrustful of Mass Media.” Gallup, September 30, 2020. news.gallup.com/poll/321116/americans-remain-distrustful-mass-media.aspx
15. Bedard, Paul. “US ‘Trust’ In News Is World’s Lowest, Trump Loss Killed ‘Interest.’” Washington Times, June 23, 2021. www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/us-trust-in-news-is-worlds-lowest-trump-loss-killed-interest
16. Enjeti, Saagar. “US Has Lowest Trust in Media of Entire Free World. A New Order Must Replace It.” Breaking Points, June 24, 2021. youtu.be/n5qbW_JcHPQ
17. Flood, Brian. “CNN Has Shed More Than Half Its Viewers Since Biden Took Office.” Fox News, April 16, 2021. www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-viewers-biden-took-office-staggering-60-percent-in-key-demo
18. The network averaged just 548,000 viewers during the week of January 3, a dizzying drop from the nearly 2.7 million viewers the same week in 2021. Anderson, Natasha. “Tuning out! Viewership at Scandal-Plagued CNN Plummets by as Much as 90%.” Daily Mail, January 12, 2022. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394997/CNN-loses-nearly-90-advertiser-coveted-demographics-overall-total-audience.html
19. Pengelly, Martin. “Chris Cuomo Fired by CNN for Helping Brother Andrew Fight Sexual Misconduct Charges.” Guardian (London), December 5, 2021. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/dec/04/chris-cuomo-fired-cnn-brother-andrew-sexual-misconduct-charges
20. Smith, Emily. “Chris Cuomo Allegedly Blasted Janice Dean as ‘That Fox Weather Bitch’ in Smear Plot.” New York Post, December 10, 2021. nypost.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-allegedly-blasted-janice-dean-as-that-fox-weather-bitch
21. Enjeti, Saagar. “Millions Turn Off Mainstream News as New Journalism Rises.” Rising, April 23, 2021. youtu.be/K5E8Us2vL7Y
22. Tracy, Marc. “Public Radio Group Criticizes New York Times Over ‘Caliphate’ Correction.” New York Times, January 12, 2021. www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/business/public-radio-group-criticizes-new-york-times-over-caliphate-correction.html
23. Al-Arian, Laila. “Caliphate: How the New York Times’ Islamic State Scoop Unraveled.” Middle East Eye, January 15, 2021. www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/new-york-times-caliphate-debacle-deeper-problems
24. Kakutani, Yuichiro. “NYT Quietly Scrubs Chinese Propaganda.” Washington Free Beacon, August 4, 2020. freebeacon.com/media/nyt-quietly-scrubs-chinese-propaganda
25. Schachtel, Jordan [Tweet] Twitter, June 16, 2020. twitter.com/jordanschachtel/status/1272993411168075776
26. Feiner, Lauren. “Amazon Is the Most Valuable Public Company in the World After Passing Microsoft.” CNBC, Jan 7 2019, www.cnbc.com/2019/01/07/amazon-passes-microsoft-market-value-becomes-largest.html
27. Herman, E. S., Chomsky, N.. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. United Kingdom. 2011.
28. Hersh, Seymour. “The Killing of Osama bin Laden.” The London Review of Books, May 21, 2015. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n10/seymour-m.-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
29. Sarlin, Benjamin. “The Man Who Knew Cheney’s Secrets.” Daily Beast, July 14, 2009. www.thedailybeast.com/the-man-who-knew-cheneys-secret
30. “Ten Bombshell Revelations From Seymour Hersh’s New Autobiography.” Zero Hedge, August 8, 2018. www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-02/ten-bombshell-revelations-seymour-hershs-new-autobiography
31. Ackerman, Spencer and Ed Pilkington. “Obama’s War on Whistleblowers Leaves Administration Insiders Unscathed.” Guardian (London). March 16, 2015. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning
32. I have been unable to confirm whether it was the publisher or Hersh himself who canceled the book, as Hersh has given indications both ways. As someone who has spent years researching and writing books, it is hard to imagine voluntarily spiking one’s own book without significant external pressure.
33. Brand, Russell. “Epstein, Gates & Mainstream Media’s Conspiracy of Silence.” youtu.be/eGsZMYiF20g
34. “Noam Chomsky on Propaganda, Interview With Andrew Marr.” The Big Idea, BBC, February 14, 1996. youtu.be/GjENnyQupow
35. “Anand Giridharadas: How Bias Actually Works at MSNBC, New York Times.” Rising, May 11, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=11WDbwZfiw8
    

Chapter 5: Red News, Blue News, Fake News, True News

1. Polls in the spring and summer of 2015, such as this CNN poll, typically showed him 60+ points behind Clinton: i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/04/20/cnnorc-2016poll04202015.pdf
2. Sunkara, Bhaskar. “Ep. 12: Bhaskar on Bernie: Talking Democratic Socialism With Jacobin Editor Bhaskar Sunkara.” 2019. www.berniesanders.com/podcast/ep-12-bhaskar-bernie-talking-democratic-socialism-jacobin-editor-bhaskar-sunkara
3. Johnson, Adam. “Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours.” FAIR, March 8, 2016. fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours
4. Vavreck, Lynn. “The Ad That Moved People the Most: Bernie Sanders’s ‘America.’” New York Times, December 30, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/upshot/the-campaign-ads-that-moved-people-the-most.html
5. Norton, Ben. “New York Times Busted for Anti-Bernie Bias: The Iconic, Clinton-Endorsing Newspaper Slyly Edits Article To Smear Sanders.” Salon. March 16, 2016. www.salon.com/2016/03/16/new_york_times_busted_for_anti_bernie_bias_the_iconic_clinton_endorsing_newspaper_slyly_edits_article_to_smear_sanders
6. Sainato, Michael. “WikiLeaks: New York Times Propped Up Clinton, Subverted Sanders.” Observer, October 13, 2016. observer.com/2016/10/wikileaks-new-york-times-propped-up-clinton-subverted-sanders/
7. Taibbi, Matt. “How the ‘New York Times’ Sandbagged Bernie Sanders.” Rolling Stone, March 15, 2016. www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-189129
8. Halper, Katie. “PBS Taps Journalist With Anti-Sanders Bias To Help Moderate Debate.” FAIR, December 17, 2019. fair.org/home/pbs-taps-journalist-with-anti-sanders-bias-to-help-moderate-debate
9. “Hillary Clinton Email Archive.” WikiLeaks, March 16, 2016. wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/
10. Email entitled “From time to time I get the questions in advance.” WikiLeaks, March 12, 2016. wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5205
11. Biddle, Sam. “WikiLeaks Emails Show DNC Tried To Get Someone To Pin Down Sanders Jewish/Atheist Leaning To Win ‘Percentage Points’ in KY and WV.” The Intercept, July 22, 2016. theintercept.com/2016/07/22/new-leak-top-dnc-official-wanted-to-use-bernie-sanderss-religious-beliefs-against-him
12. Email entitled “New Ways.” WikiLeaks, March 8, 2015. wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4097
13. Ernst, Douglas. “WikiLeaks Reveals Clinton Camp’s Work With ‘Very Friendly and Malleable Reporters.’” Washington Times, October 21, 2016. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/21/wikileaks-reveals-hillary-clinton-camps-work-with-
14. Pfeiffer, Alex. “Hill’s Shills: Leaks Have Exposed Journalists In Clinton’s Corner.” Daily Caller, October 11, 2016. dailycaller.com/2016/10/11/hills-shills-leaks-have-exposed-journalists-in-clintons-corner
15. Email entitled “Follow-up Media Call.” WikiLeaks, January 13, 2015. wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/44903
16. Email entitled “Friday Strategy Call at 8:00 AM ET.” WikiLeaks, April 23, 2015. wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1120
17. Debenedetti, Gabriel. “They Always Wanted Trump.” Politico, November 7, 2016. www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428/
18. Email entitled ”[AGENDA & MEMO] Friday Strategy Call at 8:00 AM ET.” WikiLeaks, April 23, 2015. wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1120
19. “Trump Got 15 Times More Coverage in 2015 Than Bernie.” Tyndall Report, Common Dreams. www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/03/how-media-iced-out-bernie-sanders-helped-donald-trump-win
20. “Voters Outraged As Media Accused of Falsely, Preemptively Crowning Clinton.” Common Dreams, June 6, 2016. commondreams.org/news/2016/06/06/voters-outraged-media-accused-falsely-preemptively-crowning-clinton
21. Wasserman, Edward. “Murder by Media: The Dean Scream.” Miami Herald, February 21, 2005. ewasserman.com/2005/02/21/murder-by-media-the-dean-scream
22. The term used was generally “official volunteers,” but these weren’t just people who supported the campaign. This was one half of each state’s specific allotment of attendees; they were credentialed along with each state’s delegates to enter the convention.
23. Lapowsky, Issie. “Twitter Attacks Clinton’s Record With #WhichHillary.” WIRED, February 25, 2016. www.wired.com/2016/02/whichhillary
24. Hanley, Brian. “Anti-Hillary Clinton Hashtag Breaks the Internet Two Days Before South Carolina Primary.” Huffington Post, February 25, 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-hillary-clinton-hash_b_9322034
25. Garofalo, Michael. “Clinton Campaign to Bernie: Drop Your Negative Tone and Maybe Hillary Will Debate You in NY.” Salon, March 29, 2016. www.salon.com/2016/03/28/clinton_campaign_to_bernie_drop_your_negative_tone_and_maybe_hillary_will_debate_you_in_ny
26. Golshan, Tara. “Bernie Sanders’s Fans Show Hillary Clinton What Negative ‘Tone’ Is Really Like.” Vox, March 30, 2016. www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11332820/tonedownforwhat-bernie-sanders-tone-hillary-clinton
27. Meyer, Robinson. “Here Comes the Berniebro.” Atlantic, October 17, 2015. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/here-comes-the-berniebro-bernie-sanders/411070
28. Greenwald, Glenn. “The ‘Bernie Bros’ Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading As Journalism and Social Activism.” The Intercept, January 31, 2016. theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism/
29. Rappeport, Alan. “From Bernie Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates.” New York Times, May 16, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters-nevada.html
30. Kurtzleben, Danielle. “Women And The Generational Divide Between Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders.” NPR, February 1, 2016. www.npr.org/2016/02/01/465144857/women-and-the-generational-divide-between-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders
31. Parkinson, Hannah Jane. “Click and Elect: How Fake News Helped Donald Trump Win a Real Election.” Guardian, November 14, 2016. www.theguardian.com/commentis-free/2016/nov/14/fake-news-donald-trump-election-alt-right-social-media-tech-companies
32. Dewey, Caitlin. “Facebook Fake-News Writer: ‘I Think Donald Trump Is in the White House Because of Me.” Washington Post, November 17, 2016. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me
33. Sydell, Laura. “We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator in the Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned.” NPR, November 23, 2016. www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs
34. Smith, David. “Donald Trump Hints at Assassination of Hillary Clinton by Gun Rights Supporters.” Guardian, August 10, 2016. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/09/trump-gun-owners-clinton-judges-second-amendment
35. Graves, Lucia. “This Is Donald Trump at His Lowest Yet: A Man Hinting at Murder.” Guardian, August 9, 2016. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/09/donald-trump-second-amendment-quote-hillary-clinton
36. Corasaniti, Nick and Maggie Haberman. “Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton.” New York Times, August 9, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html
37. Dougherty, Jill. “The Reality Behind Russia’s Fake News.” CNN, December 2, 2016. www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/politics/russia-fake-news-reality/index.html
38. Timberg, Craig. “Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread ‘Fake News’ During Election, Experts Say.” Washington Post, November 24, 2016. www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html
39. See Sydell, above.
40. “Trump to CNN Reporter: You Are Fake News.” CNBC, January 11, 2017. www.cnbc.com/video/2017/01/11/trump-to-cnn-reporter-you-are-fake-news.html
41. Chambers, Francesca and Keith Griffith. “VP Pence Says He and Trump Support a ‘Free and Independent Press’ - But They’ll Call the Media Out When Reporters Play ‘Fast And Loose With the Facts.’” The Daily Mail, February 20, 2017. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4243152/Pence-fr.html
    

Chapter 6: Managing the Narrative

1. Ta, Linh. “Bernie Sanders Leads Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll.” Iowa Capital Dispatch, January 10, 2020. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2020/01/10/bernie-sanders-leads-register-cnn-mediacom-iowa-poll
2. Lerer, Lisa and Reid Epstein. “Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders.” New York Times, March 2, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/democratic-superdelegates.html
3. Martin, Jonathan. “‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum.” New York Times, April 16, 2019. www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-party.html
4. Brigham, Bob. “‘I Feel Like Christmas Was Canceled’: Political Junkies Shocked by Spiking of Iowa Caucuses Poll.” Raw Story, February 1, 2020. www.rawstory.com/2020/02/i-feel-like-christmas-was-cancelled-political-junkies-shocked-by-spiking-of-iowa-caucuses-poll
5. Lee, MJ. “Bernie Sanders Told Elizabeth Warren in a Private 2018 Meeting That a Woman Can’t Win, Sources Say.” Washington Post, January 13, 2020. www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-meeting/index.html
6. Bloomberg Politics. “Sen. Sanders Says He Never Told Warren A Woman Couldn’t Win.” January 14, 2020. youtu.be/oI7Ivo2gie0
7. See Lee, above.
8. Herndon, Astead and Jonathan Martin. “Warren Says Sanders Told Her a Woman Could Not Win the Presidency.” New York Times, January 13, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-woman-president.html
9. See Bloomberg video, above.
10. See Bloomberg video, above.
11. Taibbi, Matt. “CNN’s Debate Performance Was Villainous and Shameful.” Rolling Stone, January 15, 2020. www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/january-democratic-debate-2020-cnn-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-938365
12. CNN Chyrons During January 2020 CNN Democratic Nominee Debate. [Tweet] Twitter, January 14, 2020. twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1217299524370206720
13. This 2020 Iowa debacle was so fascinating, troubling, and revealing that I took the time to investigate deeply. Please learn more with my 7000-word piece: Brasunas, Tony. “The Complete Story: What Really Happened in Iowa.” Medium, February 10, 2020. tonybrasunas.medium.com/the-complete-story-what-really-happened-in-iowa-ab1d12d3d0e2
14. The deception extends to the headline here, saying Sanders trails when the newsworthy development was that he had pulled into a lead: “Sanders Climbs, Now Nearly Tied With Biden Among Registered Voters: Reuters Poll.” CNBC, January 17, 2020. www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/sanders-climbs-now-tied-with-biden-among-registered-voters-reuters-poll.html
15. See Reuters poll, above.
16. Lindorff, Dave. “CNN’s Sanders Hit Piece Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test.” FAIR, January 13, 2020. fair.org/home/cnns-sanders-hit-piece-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test
17. Collins, Sean. “Talking About the Warren and Sanders Handshake Keeps Us From Having To Talk About Sexism.” Vox, January 15, 2020. www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/15/21066949/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-handshake-democratic-debate-sexism
18. Spencer, Keith. “There Is Hard Data That Shows ‘Bernie Bros’ Are a Myth.” Salon, March 9, 2020. www.salon.com/2020/03/09/there-is-hard-data-that-shows-bernie-bros-are-a-myth
19. Jilani, Zaid. “‘Bernie Bro’ aggression is actually political engagement.” Forward, February 27, 2020. forward.com/opinion/440613/senator-sanders-reframe-the-bernie-bro-narrative-as-the-lifeblood-of
20. Bekiempis, Victoria. “Outcry After MSNBC Host Compares Sanders’ Nevada Win to Nazi Invasion.” The Guardian, February 24, 2020. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/23/msnbc-chris-matthews-sanders-nevada-win-nazi-invasion
21. “Watch MSNBC Meltdown Amid Bernie’s Nevada Victory.” NowThis News, February 24, 2020. youtu.be/gZ43aTu9Grg
22. Mak, Tim. “How Russia Is Trying to Boost Bernie Sanders’ Campaign.” All Things Considered, NPR, March 5, 2020. www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812186614/how-russia-is-trying-to-boost-bernie-sanders-campaign
23. Barnes, Julian E. and Sydney Ember. “Russia Is Said to Be Interfering to Aid Sanders in Democratic Primaries.” New York Times, February 21, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-russia.html
24. Stracqualursi, Veronica and Devan Cole. “Pete Buttigieg Claimed Victory in Iowa Before Any Results Were Reported.” CNN, February 4, 2020. www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/politics/pete-buttigieg-iowa-caucus/index.html
25. Stewart, Emily and Ella Nilsen. “Pete Buttigieg Claims Victory in Iowa Before the Results Are In.” Vox, February 4, 2020. www.vox.com/2020/2/4/21122122/pete-buttigieg-iowa-victory-speech
26. Malone, Clare. “That Last, Unreleased Des Moines Register Poll of Iowa Really Did Show Biden in Fourth.” FiveThirtyEight, February 3, 2020. fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/iowa-caucus-2020-election-live/#254963
27. See Stewart, above.
28. Hunter, Carol. “From the Editor: Des Moines Register, Partners Cancel Release of Iowa Poll After Respondent Raises Concerns.” Des Moines Register, February 1, 2020. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/02/01/des-moines-register-cnn-cancels-release-iowa-poll-over-respondent-concerns/4637168002
29. Dwilson, Stephanie Dube. “Shadow & the Iowa Democratic Caucus App: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know.” Heavy, February 4, 2020. heavy.com/news/2020/02/shadow-iowa-democratic-caucus-app
30. “Cyber Experts Weigh In on the App That Crashed the Iowa Caucus.” CBS News. February 5, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ8zLH6T1A
31. See Brasunas, above.
32. “DNC Claims Right to Select Presidential Candidate.” Project Censored. October 4, 2017. www.projectcensored.org/9-dnc-claims-right-select-presidential-candidate
33. Chariton, Jordan. “DNC: We Can Legally Choose Candidate Over Cigars in Back Room.” The Young Turks, May 1, 2017. medium.com/theyoungturks/dnc-we-can-legally-choose-candidate-over-cigars-in-back-room-e3026730e252
34. McClennen, Sophia A. “The DNC’s Elephant in the Room: Dems Have a Problem – It’s Not Donald Trump.” Salon, May 13, 2017 www.salon.com/2017/05/13/the-dncs-elephant-in-the-room-dems-have-a-problem-its-not-donald-trump
    Riotta, Chris. “Was the Election Rigged Against Bernie Sanders? DNC Lawsuit Demands Repayment for Campaign Donors.” Newsweek, May 15, 2017. www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-rigged-hillary-clinton-dnc-lawsuit-donald-trump-president-609582
35. >Project Censored. “The Top 25 Censored Stories Of 2016-17.” 2017. www.projectcensored.org/category/the-top-25-censored-stories-of-2016-2017/page/4
36. Chariton, Jordan. “Why Democrats Are Full of Sh*t on Voting Rights.” Status Coup, July 9, 2021. statuscoup.substack.com/p/why-democrats-are-full-of-sht-on
37. See Hunter, above.
38. Shiver, Phil. “The Final Des Moines Register Poll–The One They Decided Not To Release–Shows Joe Biden In Fourth Place.” The Blaze, February 3, 2020. www.theblaze.com/news/final-des-moines-register-poll-biden-fourth
39. Coverage in corporate media was overwhelmingly positive about Buttigieg during the campaign. His military experience was painted as brief but dutiful and dangerous. Rarely, and only in passing, was it mentioned that he worked with the CIA and other intelligence agencies:
    Maddow, Rachel. “Interview with Pete Buttigieg.” MSNBC, April 4, 2019. www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2019-04-15-msna1219976
    Zeleny, Jeff. “Buttigieg Wields His Military Credentials: ‘It’s Not Like I Killed Bin Laden,’ but It Was Dangerous.” CNN, May 17, 2019. www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/buttigieg-military-service-2020/index.html
40. Rubinstein, Alexander. “Media Darling Pete Buttigieg Was in Unit That Worked With CIA in Afghanistan.” The Grayzone, February 7, 2020. thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/pete-buttigieg-cia-afghanistan
41. “Hear Buttigieg’s Reaction to Latest Iowa Results.” CNN, February 7, 2020. edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/02/07/pete-buttigieg-iowa-caucus-lead-new-hampshire-town-hall-2020-vpx.cnn
42. Hackney, Deanna. “Review Largely Blames Iowa Caucus Problems on Democratic National Committee.” CNN, December 13, 2020. www.cnn.com/2020/12/12/politics/iowa-caucus-review/index.html
43. Helmore, Edward. “Once the Scourge of Democrats, Former Republican Plays Tough For Hillary Clinton.” The Guardian, November 29, 2014. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/david-brock-former-republican-hitman-hillary-clinton
44. Gold, Hadas. “Media Matters to Pivot Away From Focus on Fox News, As It Names New President.” Politico, December 6, 2016. www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/12/media-matters-announces-new-president-and-new-direction-232228
45. These slurs are used against independent voices on the left too, such as this piece attacking Alex Rubinstein and Jimmy Dore: Ross, Alexander Reid. “These ‘Dirtbag Left’ Stars Are Flirting With the Far Right.” Daily Beast, March 9, 2021. www.thedailybeast.com/these-dirtbag-left-stars-are-flirting-with-the-far-right
46. Samuel, Terence and Nancy Barnes. “NPR Launches Disinformation Reporting Team.” NPR, July 15, 2022. www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2022/07/15/1111727112/npr-launches-disinformation-reporting-team
47. “Democracy Matters: Strategy for Action.” Media Matters, 2017. www.documentcloud.org/documents/3440721-337535680-Full-David-Brock-Confidential-Memo-on
48. Dore, Jimmy. “NBC & Google Team Up To Censor Conservative News.” Jimmy Dore Show, June 18, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4JGwR10UCA
49. Scherer, Michael. ”Hillary Clinton’s Bulldog Blazes New Campaign Finance Trails.” Time, September 10, 2015. time.com/4028459/david-brock-hillary-clinton-media-matters/
50. CDA Section 230: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider” (47 U.S.C. § 230).
51. Holzberg, Melissa. “Facebook Banned 1.3 Billion Accounts Over Three Months To Combat ‘Fake’ And ‘Harmful’ Content.” Forbes, March 22, 2021. www.forbes.com/sites/melissaholzberg/2021/03/22/facebook-banned-13-billion-accounts-over-three-months-to-combat-fake-and-harmful-content
52. Robertson, Adi. “Facebook has banned nearly 1,000 ‘militarized social movements,’ documents reveal.” The Verge, October 12, 2021. www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722885/facebook-militarized-social-movements-banned-internal-list-leak
53. Bell, K. “Facebook has banned 3,000 accounts for COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation.” Engadget, August 18, 2021. www.engadget.com/facebook-removed-3000-accounts-covid-vaccine-misinformation-184254103.html
54. Ingraham, Laura. “Ingraham Reacts to Time Article Revealing Driving Forces Behind Biden’s Win.” Fox News, February 5, 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cw03E2eoQU
55. Ball, Molly. “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.” TIME, February 4, 2021. time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign
56. Vorhies, Zach and Kent Heckenlively. Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Censorship. Skyhorse. New York, New York. 2021.
57. Bose, Nandita and Elizabeth Culliford. “Biden Says Facebook, Others ‘Killing People’ by Carrying COVID Misinformation.” Reuters, July 16, 2021. www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/white-house-says-facebooks-steps-stop-vaccine-misinformation-are-inadequate-2021-07-16
58. See Bose, above.
59. Lemon, Jason. “Video of Biden Saying Vaccinations Prevent Covid Resurfaces After Infection.” Newsweek, July 21, 2022. www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-2021-video-saying-vaccinations-prevent-covid-resurfaces-1726900
60. Ball, Krystal and Saagar Enjeti. “Outrage After Biden Pushes Internet Death Penalty for ‘Misinformation.’” Breaking Points, July 19, 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ACNDoqlr_o
61. See Ball, above.
62. Swann, Ben. “On Masks, Facebook Fact-Checkers Bought and Paid for by Gates Foundation.” Reality Check, August 31, 2020. podtail.com/en/podcast/reality-check-with-ben-swann/facebook-fact-checkers-bought-and-paid-for-by-gate
63. Gaslight. 1944, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. George Cukor, director. The film depicts a young woman whose husband attempts to rob her of her wealth while slowly manipulating her into believing she is insane.
64. “Dr. Anthony Fauci Talks With Dr Jon LaPook About Covid-19.” 60 Minutes, March 8, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI
65. Good Morning America. “Realities of Facemasks in Fight Against Coronavirus Exposure.” ABC News, Feb 27, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?time_ continue=309&v=pZiGJUbxqww
66. See 60 Minutes, above.
67. Lazzarino, Antonio Ivan, et al. “Covid-19: Important Potential Side Effects Of Wearing Face Masks That We Should Bear In Mind.” British Medical Journal, May 21, 2020. www. bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2003
68. Ross, Katherine. “Why Weren’t We Wearing Masks From the Beginning? Dr. Fauci Explains.” TheStreet, June 12, 2020. www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-directive-coronavirus
69. Chamberlain, Samuel. “Fauci Emails Show His Flip-Flopping on Wearing Masks To Fight Covid.” New York Post, June 3, 2021. nypost.com/2021/06/03/fauci-emails-show-his-flip-flopping-on-wearing-masks-to-fight-covid
70. KEEL 710 AM. “We Were Lied to About Facemasks and COVID-19.” July 23, 2020. 710keel.com/we-were-lied-to-about-facemasks-and-covid-19
71. Ball, Krystal and Saagar Enjeti. “Fauci Admits Government Lied About Masks To Preserve Supplies.” Rising, June 18, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2MmX2U2V3c
72. It would take pages to document all the media coverage of flip-flops on covid policies. A survey:
    Harsanyi, David. “Fauci Is Not Your God.” National Review, February 22, 2021. www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/fauci-is-not-your-god
    Olson, Tyler. “Fauci’s Mixed Messages, Inconsistencies About COVID Masks, Vaccines and Reopenings Come Under Scrutiny.” Fox News, February 23, 2021. www.foxnews.com/politics/faucis-mixed-messages-inconsistencies-about-covid-19-masks-vaccines-and-reopenings-come-under-scrutiny
    Specter, Michael. “How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor.” The New Yorker, April 10, 2020. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor Chamberlain, Samuel. “Fauci Emails Show His Flip-Flopping on Wearing Masks To Fight Covid.” New York Post, June 3, 2021. nypost.com/2021/06/03/fauci-emails-show-his-flip-flopping-on-wearing-masks-to-fight-covid/
    Jankowicz, Mia. “Fauci Said Government Held Off Promoting Face Masks Because It Knew Shortages Were So Bad Even Doctors Couldn’t Get Enough.” Business Insider, June 15, 2020. www.businessinsider.com/fauci-mask-advice-was-because-doctors-shortages-from-the-start-2020-6
73. Maté, Aaron. “MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Sees a “Russia Connection” Lurking Around Every Corner.” The Intercept, April 12 2017. theintercept.com/2017/04/12/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-sees-a-russia-connection-lurking-around-every-corner
74. Rosas, Julio. “Rachel Maddow Theorizes Russian Attack on Power Grid During Polar Vortex: ‘What Would You and Your Family Do’.” Mediaite, January 31, 2019. www.mediaite.com/tv/rachel-maddow-theorizes-russian-attack-on-power-grid-during-polar-vortex-what-would-you-and-your-family-do
75. Maté, Aaron. “The End of Russiagate.” Le Monde, May 2019. mondediplo.com/2019/05/02russiagate-end
76. Dore, Jimmy. “Final Nail in Russiagate Coffin: CrowdStrike Admits ‘No Evidence.’” Jimmy Dore Show, May 11, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRoTGlQ4JMA
77. Seitz, Amanda. “FBI Reviewed Cybersecurity Firm’s Evidence in 2016 DNC Election Hack.” Associated Press, September 26, 2019. apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-7657130451
78. Maté, Aaron. “The Failed Russiagate Playbook Can’t Stop Bernie Sanders.” The Nation, February 25, 2020. www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-russiagate
79. Dunleavy, Jerry. ”Obama Spy Chief And Other Top Officials Had No Direct Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion: Transcripts.” Washington Examiner, May 7, 2020. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obama-spy-chief-and-other-top-officials-had-no-direct-evidence-of-trump-russia-collusion-transcripts
80. Enjeti, Saagar. “Obamagate Is Real and the Media Can’t Just Ignore It.” Rising, May 12, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_JQuttDa8
81. Trump later pardoned Flynn too, but the unexpected dropping of charges happened first: Singman, Brooke. “DOJ Drops Case Against Michael Flynn, In Wake Of Internal Memo Release.” Fox News, May 7, 2020. www.foxnews.com/politics/drops-doj-case-against-michael-flynn-in-wake-of-internal-memo-release
82. See Maté in Le Monde, above.
83. Goldman, Adam and Charlie Savage. “Authorities Arrest Analyst Who Contributed to Steele Dossier.” New York Times, November 4, 2021. www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.html
84. Farhi, Paul. ”The Washington Post Corrects, Removes Parts Of Two Stories Regarding The Steele Dossier.” Washington Post, November 12, 2021. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-washington-post-steele-dossier/2021/11/12/f7c9b770-43d5-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html
85. Cohen, Marshall. ”The Steele Dossier: A Reckoning.” CNN, November 18, 2021. edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/politics/steele-dossier-reckoning/index.html
86. MacLeod, Allan. “The Utility of the RussiaGate Conspiracy New McCarthyism Allows Corporate Media To Tighten Grip, Democrats To Ignore Their Own Failings.” FAIR, July 27, 2017. fair.org/home/the-utility-of-the-russiagate-conspiracy
87. Enjeti, Saagar. “Media Faces ‘Extinction Level Event’ As Russiagate, #MeToo Implode.” Rising, May 11, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSdDKsxo34
88. See Enjeti, above.
89. A feather in its cap, independent media program Rising (back when Enjeti and Ball were hosts) was the first news outlet to interview Reade after she made her allegations public. Corporate media ignored the issue altogether, but independent media wrote articles. Rising let Reade tell her own story. “Joe Biden Accuser Tara Reade Speaks Out.” Rising, Mar 26, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVUQ7ii3_4
90. “Megyn Kelly Interviews Biden Accuser Tara Reade.” Associated Press, May 7, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Mgpj4t7ZU
91. The story remains contested by Clinton, but upon investigation, I find Broaddrick’s allegations persuasive. For a reasonable, middle-of-the-road presentation of the facts: “Is Juanita Broaddrick Telling the Truth?” Slate, March 3, 1999. slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/03/is-juanita-broaddrick-telling-the-truth.html
92. Ball, Krystal. “Krystal Ball Blasts Media for Entitled Meltdown Over Megyn Kelly Interview With Tara Reade.” Rising, May 8, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SypnUFeKUrw
    

Chapter 7: The Pipes of the Mighty Wurlitzer

1. Quite a bit has been written about the incident in independent media from both military and media perspectives if one is willing to dig. A more nuanced angle than I was able to appreciate at the time: “The EP-3 collision: 2001 and 201?” Asia Sentinel, Mar 29, 2013. www. asiasentinel.com/p/the-ep-3-collision-2001-and-201
2. Wong, Natalie. “Hong Kong Activist, Writer ‘Kong Tsung-Gan’ Confirms That’s Only a Pen Name.” South China Morning Post, August 15, 2020. www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3097523/hong-kong-activist-writer-kong-tsung-gan-confirms-thats-only
3. Blumenthal, Max. “Western Media’s Favorite Hong Kong ‘Freedom Struggle Writer’ Is American Ex-Amnesty Staffer in Yellowface” Grayzone, August 8, 2020. thegrayzone.com/2020/08/08/hong-kong-western-media-yellowfacing-amnesty
4. Dore, Jimmy. “Mainstream Media Caught Using Fake Sources!” Jimmy Dore Show, August 17, 2020. www.youtu.be/pdN3wkdZsA8
5. Romboy, Dennis. “Utah Activist in Capitol Riot Sold His Video to CNN, NBC for $35k Each, Court Docs Say.” Deseret News, February 17, 2021. www.deseret.com/utah/2021/2/17/22287763/activist-capitol-riot-video-sold-nbc-cnn-35k-each-john-sullivan-federal-charges
6. Eustachewich, Lia. “Who Is John Sullivan, Accused Provocateur Charged in Capitol Riot?” New York Post, January 15, 2021. nypost.com/2021/01/15/who-is-john-sullivan-accused-provocateur-charged-in-capitol-riot
7. Blumenthal, Max. “Chaos Agent: Right-Wing Blames US Capitol Riot on Notorious Instigator Banished by Black Lives Matter.” Grayzone, January 12, 2021. thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/chaos-agent-right-wing-us-capitol-riot-black-lives-matter
8. “The New York Times Announces First Narrative Nonfiction Podcast, ‘Caliphate’ With Rukmini Callimachi.” Investors New York Times, March 10, 2018. investors.nytco.com/news-and-events/press-releases/news-details/2018/THE-NEW-YORK-TIMES-ANNOUNCES-FIRST-NARRATIVE-NONFICTION-PODCAST-CALIPHATE-WITH-RUKMINI-CALLIMACHI/default.aspx
9. Al-Arian, Laila. “Caliphate: How The New York Times’ Islamic State Scoop Unraveled.” Middle East Eye, January 15, 2021. www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/new-york-times-caliphate-debacle-deeper-problems
10. Folkenflik, David. “‘New York Times’ Retracts Core Of Hit Podcast Series ‘Caliphate’ On ISIS.” NPR, December 18, 2020. www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retracts-hit-podcast-series-caliphate-on-isis-executioner
11. Rindsberg, Ashley. The Gray Lady Winked. Midnight Oil Publishers. Hungary. 2021.
12. The Times will publish endless nuanced pieces on a neoliberal trade pacts but will ultimately reveal their true position: “A Pacific Trade Deal.” New York Times, November 5, 2013. www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/opinion/a-pacific-trade-deal.html
13. Craig Whitlock lays out the basics of drugs, corruption, and government deception in his worthwhile 2021 book named after the leaked papers. Lee Camp goes deeper and lays asunder the true agenda of the war and enumerates (with some profanity) the lies told to the American people about it for nearly two decades. Whitlock, Craig. The Afghanistan Papers. 2021, Simon & Schuster. Camp, Lee. “The War in Afghanistan Is a Fraud (and Now We Have Proof).“ Consortium News, January 10, 2020. consortiumnews.com/2020/01/10/the-war-in-afghanistan-is-a-fraud-and-now-we-have-proof
14. One of the more anti-intellectual pieces to grace the pages of a major newspaper told readers, “critical thinking… isn’t helping.” Warzel, Charlie. “Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole.” New York Times, February 18, 2021. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html
15. Krugman, P. “$2000 stimulus checks bad policy.” [Tweet]. Twitter, December 23, 2020. twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1341784874181603330
16. Sirota, David. “The Thumb on the Scale.” The Lever, November 8, 2021. www.levernews.com/the-thumb-on-the-scale
17. This piece the Times corrected, although not until after the damage was done: Medina, Jennifer. “Bernie Sanders Retracts Endorsement of Cenk Uygur After Criticism” New York Times, December 13, 2019. www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/us/politics/bernie-sanders-cenk-uygur.html
18. A typical assault on independent media here: Belluz, Julia and John Lavis. “Joe Rogan Is a Drop in the Ocean of Medical Misinformation.” New York Times, February 8, 2022. www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/opinion/joe-rogan-health-misinformation-solutions.html
19. Zinoman, Jason. “An American Comic on a Russian Channel: What He Avoids Speaks Volumes.” New York Times, June 7, 2017. www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/arts/television/trump-russia-comedy-redacted-tonight-lee-camp.html
20. Ball, Krystal and Saagar Enjeti. “New York Times Blatantly Admits Cover-Up At Biden Campaign Request.” Rising, April 14, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=63yeQ1GCzIY
21. Rosen, Christine. “The Case of Taylor Lorenz.” Commentary Magazine, April 2021. www.commentary.org/articles/christine-rosen/taylor-lorenz-clubhouse-woke-journalism
22. Takala, R. “New York Times Reporter Locks Twitter Account After Falsely Accusing Tech Entrepreneur of Using a Slur.” Mediaite, February 8, 2021. www.mediaite.com/news/ny-times-reporter-locks-twitter-account-after-falsely-accusing-tech-entrepreneur-of-using-a-slur
23. Rogan, Joe. “NY Times Writer Criticizes Tulsi Gabbard.” Joe Rogan Experience,” January 21, 2019. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpurFfcSNfU
24. Stephens, Brett. “Bernie’s Angry Bros.” New York Times. January 31, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/sanders-bernie-bros.html
25. Rappeport, Alan. “From Bernie Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates.” New York Times, May 16, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters-nevada.html
26. Bowles, Nellie. “The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left Want to Lead Everyone to Bernie Sanders.” New York Times, February 29, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-chapo-trap-house.html
27. Spencer, Keith. “There Is Hard Data That Shows ‘Bernie Bros’ Are a Myth.” Salon, March 9, 2020. www.salon.com/2020/03/09/there-is-hard-data-that-shows-bernie-bros-are-a-myth
28. “Number of Twitter followers of Democratic candidates for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.” www.statista.com/statistics/1037466/twitter-followers-democratic-presidential-candidates
29. See Spencer, above.
30. Ellefson, Lindsey. “Fox News Ends 2021 as Most-Watched Basic Cable Channel for Sixth Straight Year.” The Wrap, December 29, 2021. www.thewrap.com/cable-news-2021-ratings-fox-news-msnbc-cnn
31. “Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War.” PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll, October 2, 2003. web.stanford.edu/class/comm1a/readings/kull-misperceptions.pdf
32. Melton, Melissa. “We’ll Know Our Disinformation Program Is Complete When Everything the American Public Believes Is False.” ConspiracyAnalyst, January 13, 2015. conspiracyanalyst.org/2015/01/13/cia-flashback-well-know-our-disinformation-program-is-complete-when-everything-the-american-public-believes-is-false
33. Katz, A.J.. “Top Cable News Shows of 2021: Tucker Carlson Tonight Is No. 1 in All Measurements for First Time Ever.” Ad Week, January 3, 2022. www.adweek.com/tvnewser/top-cable-news-shows-of-2021-tucker-carlson-tonight-is-no-1-in-all-categories-for-first-time-ever/496940
34. Sheth, Sonam. “Fox News Won a Court Case by ‘Persuasively’ Arguing That No ‘Reasonable Viewer’ Takes Tucker Carlson Seriously.” Business Insider, September 24, 2020. www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9
35. Egan, Matt. “GE Gets a Badly Needed Win in Iraq.” CNN, October 22, 2018. www.cnn.com/2018/10/22/business/ge-iraq-power-siemens
36. “GE Signs Power Agreements Worth Over $1.2 Billion With Iraq.” Reuters, August 19, 2020. www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-iraq/ge-signs-power-agreements-worth-over-1-2-billion-with-iraq-idUSKCN25F2SM
37. Working with Glenn Greenwald, Matt Orfalea created a video montage of Nicole Wallace’s deceptions. “Viral Video of MSNBC Host’s Lies.” May 22, 2022. youtu.be/ZbfQZki-YZXk
38. Concha, Joe. “Judge Dismisses One America News Defamation Lawsuit Against Rachel Maddow.” The Hill, May 23, 2020. thehill.com/homenews/media/499294-judge-dismisses-one-america-news-defamation-lawsuit-against-rachel-maddow
39. Greenwald, Glenn. “A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow’s Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts.” June 22, 2021. greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers
40. In the judge’s words: “Maddow’s show is different from a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news.”
41. “MSNBC Admits Maddow Not a Real Source Of Information.” Breaking Points, June 24, 2021. youtu.be/k-AnC_7lhfE
42. “Panel Reacts to Joe Rogan Endorsement of Bernie Sanders.” Rising, January 24, 2020. youtu.be/fZwTEbDEQF4
43. MSNBC seems to have removed the video, but it can be found elsewhere, such as at “Rachel Maddow’s Non-Stop Covid Lies.” Jimmy Dore Show, December 31, 2021. www.youtu.be/qWLc8dHW0T4
44. There are no studies showing the vaccines stop transmission of the virus, and there weren’t any when Maddow made her statements. There are abundant studies showing that the injections have no effect on transmission, and abundant studies, such as this one, showing the injections somewhat reduce transmission without stopping it: Eyre, David W., et al. ”Effect of Covid-19 Vaccination on Transmission of Alpha and Delta Variants.” New England Journal of Medicine, February 24, 2022. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2116597
45. Concha, Joe. “Larry King Hits CNN: ‘Stopped Doing News’ To Focus on Trump.” The Hill, November 8, 2018. thehill.com/homenews/media/415669-larry-king-hits-cnn-stopped-doing-news-to-focus-on-trump
46. Vaishampaiyan, Akshay. “Larry King on RT: U.S. Talk Show King Joins Russian Network.” Mic, May 30, 2013. www.mic.com/articles/45265/larry-king-on-rt-u-s-talk-show-king-joins-russian-network
47. Edwards, Jim. “10 Amazing Facts About Pfizer’s $2.3B Bextra Settlement.” CBS News, September 2, 2009. www.cbsnews.com/news/10-amazing-facts-about-pfizers-23b-bextra-settlement
48. CNN ran several pieces at the time of the settlement in 2009, but in the thirteen years afterwards CNN has only mentioned Pfizer’s wrongdoing once–in the last sentence of a piece in 2012 reporting that the BP settlement for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill had broken the Bextra settlement’s record.
49. Dore, Jimmy. “‘Pfizer Intentionally Deceived and Defrauded’ – US Justice Department.” Jimmy Dore Show, January 24, 2022. www.youtu.be/IS3RvTglJ3s
50. Darcy, Oliver. “Right-Wing Media Pushed A Deworming Drug To Treat Covid-19 That The FDA Says Is Unsafe For Humans.” CNN Business, August 23, 2021. www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/media/right-wing-media-ivermectin/index.html
51. Too many studies to cite. “Use of Ivermectin Is Associated With Lower Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019.“ http://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(20)34898-4
52. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/press-release
53. Burnett, Erin. “Podcast Host Joe Rogan Announces Positive Covid-19 Test.” CNN Out Front, September 1, 2021. www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/09/01/joe-rogan-podcast-positive-covid-ebof-sot-vpx.cnn
54. Dore, Jimmy. “CNN Lied About Joe Rogan, Admits Dr. Sanjay Gupta!” Jimmy Dore Show, Oct 16, 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yiigLK8t0g
55. See Dore, above.
56. O’Keefe, James. “CNN Director Admits Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency.” Project Veritas, April 13, 2021. www.youtu.be/Dv8Zy-JwXr4
57. Iversen, Kim. “CNN Caught on Camera Admitting To Pro-Democrat Propaganda.” April 13, 2021. www.youtu.be/i76G3MV0pOM
58. Greenwald, Glenn. “Due Process, Adult Sexual Morality and the Case of Rep. Matt Gaetz.” April 11, 2021. greenwald.substack.com/p/due-process-adult-sexual-morality
59. Fandos, Nicholas. “The Matt Gaetz Investigation: What We Know.” New York Times, April 2, 2021. www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/matt-gaetz-investigation.html
60. Bauder, David. “CNN President Resigns After Relationship With Co-Worker.” ABC News, February 2, 2022. abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/cnns-zucker-resigns-relation-ship-worker-82626299
61. Hutton, Christopher. “CNN President Jeff Zucker Resigning Over Undisclosed Relationship With Employee.” Washington Times, February 02, 2022. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jeff-zucker-resign-cnn
62. National Public Radio Consolidated Financial Statements: Years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020. media.npr.org/documents/about/statements/fy2021/National%20 Public%20Radio%20-%20Consolidated%20Financial%20Statements%20-%20S2120.pdf
63. Hensley, Scott. “Johnson & Johnson To Pay $2.2 Billion In Marketing Settlement.” NPR, November 4, 2013. www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/11/04/242989557/risperdal-johnson-johnson-to-pay-2-2-billion-in-marketing-settlement
64. Petras, James. “The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A Documented Case Of Philanthropic Collaboration With the Secret Police.” The Unz Review, December 15, 2001. www.unz.com/jpetras/the-ford-foundation-and-the-cia/
65. Lerro, Bruce. “Left Gatekeepers Through the New Left: Monitored Rebellion.” Dissident Voice, May 19, 2020. dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/left-gatekeepers-through-the-new-left-monitored-rebellion
66. Saunders, Frances Stonor. Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War. pp134-135. Granta Books. London, England. 1999.
67. Hollar, Julie. “Here’s the Evidence That the Corporate Media Says Is Missing of Washington Post’s Bias Against Sanders.” FAIR, August 15, 2019. fair.org/home/heres-the-evidence-corporate-media-say-is-missing-of-wapo-bias-against-sanders
68. Shenoy, Rupa. “Young Iowa Climate Activists Turn Political.” Public Radio International, The World. February 3, 2020. theworld.org/file/2020-02-03/young-iowa-climate-activists-turn-political
69. Zinoman, Jason. “An American Comic on a Russian Channel: What He Avoids Speaks Volumes.” New York Times, June 7, 2017. www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/arts/television/trump-russia-comedy-redacted-tonight-lee-camp.html
70. Simon, Scott. “A Look At RT’s ‘Redacted Tonight.’”NPR Weekend Edition, December 16, 2017 www.npr.org/2017/12/16/571305374/a-look-at-rts-redacted-tonight
71. In response to NPR’s hit piece and unwillingness to interview him live, Camp wrote a brilliant satirical takedown of NPR’s propaganda. Camp, Lee. “How To Create NPR’s Propaganda – As Seen In a Hit Piece Against Me.” World Against War, December 2017. worldbeyondwar.org/lee-camp-create-nprs-propaganda-seen-hit-piece
72. Bishop, Tom. “US Psychological Warfare Experts Worked at CNN and NPR During Kosovo War.” World Socialist Website, April 18, 2000. www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/04/cnn-a18.html
73. Harper, Jennifer. “Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity Named Top ‘Streaming’ Talk Show Hosts.” Washington Times, January 9, 2020. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/9/rush-limbaugh-michael-savage-sean-hannity-named-to
74. Fleury, Michelle. “Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos Buys Washington Post for $250m.” BBC News, August 6, 2013. www.bbc.com/news/av/business-23582797
75. Konkel, Frank. “The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon.” The Atlantic, July 17, 2014. www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632
76. La Monica, Paul. “News Corp. Wins Fight for Dow Jones.” CNN, August 1, 2007. money.cnn.com/2007/07/31/news/companies/dowjones_newscorp
77. See Warzel, above.
78. Biddle, Sam. “Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify.” Intercept, September 11, 2017. www.theintercept.com/2017/09/11/make-mark-zuckerberg-testify
    

Chapter 8: Censorship Central

1. Nunez, Michael. “Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News.” Gizmodo, May 9, 2016. gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006
2. Noam Chomsky. “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media.” Accessed at wikiquote. quotepark.com/quotes/2067311-noam-chomsky-if-you-believe-in-freedom-of-speech-you-believe-i
3. Statcounter. “Search Engine Market Share Worldwide, Jan-Dec 2020.” gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/worldwide/2020
4. Globally, it trails only BBC, CNN, New York Times, and MSN.com. Majid, Aisha. “Top 50 News Sites in the World.” Press Gazette, March 2, 2022. pressgazette.co.uk/most-popular-websites-news-world-monthly/2
5. Nesbit, Jeff. “Google’s True Origin Partly Lies in CIA and NSA Research Grants for Mass Surveillance.” Quartz, December 8, 2017. qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance
6. Ahmed, Nafeez. “How The CIA Made Google: Inside the Secret Network Behind Mass Surveillance, Endless War, and Skynet.” Medium, January 22, 2015. medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
7. Edwards, Jim. “Social Media Is a Tool of the CIA. Seriously.” CBS News, July 11, 2011. www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously
8. Phillips, Jack. “YouTube Deletes CPAC’s Video About Trump’s Lawsuit, Group Can’t Upload Content.” Epoch Times, July 11, 2021. www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/youtube-deletes-cpacs-video-about-trumps-lawsuit-group-cant-upload-content_3896374.html
9. Alexander, Julia. “More Than 17,000 YouTube Channels Removed Since New Hateful Content Policy Implemented.” The Verge, September 3, 2019. www.theverge.com/2019/9/3/20845071/youtube-hateful-content-policies-channels-comments-videos-susan-wojcicki
10. Vorhies, Zach and Kent Heckenlively. Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Censorship. Skyhorse. New York, New York. 2021.
11. Attkisson, Sharyl. “Big Tech Whistleblower.” Full Measure, January 11, 2021. fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/big-tech-censorship-part-1
12. O’Neil, Tyler. “Google Manager Told Whistleblower: ‘We Need to Stop’ Fake News Because “That’s How Trump Won.’” PJ Media, March 11, 2019. pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2019/03/11/google-manager-fake-news-and-hate-speech-are-how-trump-won-the-election-n64342
13. “Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies on Data Collection.” CSPAN, December 11, 2018. youtu.be/WfbTbPEEJxI
14. Fellow whistleblower Mike Wacker corroborated Vorhies revelations about blacklists. Wacker, Mike. “Google’s Manual Interventions in Search Results.” July 2, 2019. medium.com/@mikewacker/googles-manual-interventions-in-search-results-a3b0cfd3e26c
15. Parker, Tom. “YouTube CEO: It’s Easy To ‘Make Up Content and Post It From Your Basement’ So We Boost “Authoritative Sources.” Reclaim the Net, April 8, 2021. reclaimthenet.org/youtube-ceo-basement-authoritative-sources
16. See Parker, above.
17. Dore, Jimmy. “YouTube CEO Admits Suppressing Independent News.” Jimmy Dore Show, April 24, 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l6praw8JUg
18. Pichai, Sundar. “Coronavirus: How we’re helping.” Company Blog Announcement. March 6, 2020. blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/coronavirus-covid19-response
19. Tweet by Author Aaron Ginn on July 18, 2021: “Google is reading what you host in Google Docs. They deleted and removed access to my personal copy of Evidence over Hysteria: COVID-19. Free is never free.” www.twitter.com/aginnt/status/1416860936946823185
20. Soave, Robby. “Trump Never Told Georgia’s Lead Election Investigator To ‘Find the Fraud.’” Reason, March 15, 2021. reason.com/2021/03/15/trump-find-the-fraud-media-wrong-anonymous-source-call
21. “YouTube Bans New Videos Claiming US Election Fraud.” AFP, December 9, 2020. www.yahoo.com/now/youtube-bans-videos-claiming-us-172957890.html
22. Gramlich, John. “10 Facts About Americans and Facebook.” Pew Research, May 16, 2019. www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/16/facts-about-americans-and-facebook
23. Dice, Mark. The True Story of Fake News. p 151. Resistance Manifesto. San Diego, CA. 2017.
24. Anderson, Natasha. “Facebook’s ‘Fake News’: Social Media Giant Planted Op-Eds in Newspapers and Ran TV Ads Across the US Via Shadowy Lobbying Group.” Daily Mail, May 18, 2022. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10827743/How-Facebook-planted-op-eds-newspapers-TV-ads
25. “Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview.” YouTube, October 3, 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lx5VmAdZSI
26. Zakrzewski, Cat, Cristiano Lima, and Will Oremus. “Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Tells Lawmakers That Meaningful Reform Is Necessary ‘For Our Common Good.’” Washington Post, October 5, 2021. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/05/facebook-senate-hearing-frances-haugen
27. This is also supported by a documentary Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network that was released by an undercover investigative journalist: Statt, Nick. “Undercover Facebook Moderator Was Instructed Not To Remove Fringe Groups Or Hate Speech.” Verge, July 17, 2018. www.theverge.com/2018/7/17/17582152/facebook-channel-4-undercover-investigation-content-moderation
28. Birnbaum, Emily, and Leah Nylen. “House Antitrust Leaders Meet With Facebook Whistleblower.” Politico, October 21, 2021. www.politico.com/news/2021/10/21/house-antitrust-leaders-meet-with-facebook-whistleblower-516556
29. Allyn, Bobby. “Here Are 4 Key Points From the Facebook Whistleblower’s Testimony on Capitol Hill.” NPR, October 5, 2021. www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043377310/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-congress
30. Kiderra, Inga. “Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout.” UC San Diego News Center, September 12, 2012. ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/facebook_fuels_the_friend_vote
31. Testimony to the Judiciary Subcommittee. July 16, 2019. vimeo.com/352617228
32. Watson, Paul Joseph. “Psychologist: Big Tech Will Use ‘Subliminal Methods’ To Shift 15 Million Votes on Election Day.” Summit News, March 10, 2020. summit.news/2020/03/10/psychologist-big-tech-will-use-subliminal-methods-to-shift-15-million-votes-on-election-day
33. See Nunez, above.
34. Flood, Brian and Joseph Wulfsohn. “Facebook Blasted for Censoring Report on BLM Co-Founder’s Pricey Real Estate.” Fox News, April 16, 2021. www.foxnews.com/media/facebook-censoring-black-lives-matter
35. Bowden, John. “Nick Clegg Says Facebook Sets a Red Line on Inciting Violence in Wake of Trump Ban.” The Independent, June 6, 2021. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/clegg-facebook-trump-ban-violence-b1860557.html
36. Vengattil, Munsif and Elizabeth Culliford. “Facebook Allows Ukraine War Posts Urging Violence Against Invading Russians, Putin.” Reuters, March 10, 2022. news.yahoo.com/exclusive-facebook-instagram-temporarily-allow-211146449.html
37. Dore, Jimmy. “Facebook OKs Violent Speech – But Only Against Russians.” Jimmy Dore Show, Mar 12, 2022. www.youtu.be/YoZl_gwysrY
38. Olson, Parmy. “Zuckerberg Still Has Too Much Control of Facebook.” Bloomberg News, February 17, 2022. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-17/zuckerberg-still-has-too-much-control-of-facebook
39. Hughes, Chris. “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook.” New York Times, May 9, 2019. www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html
40. Shroff, Kaivan. “Why Who Gets Twitter’s Little Blue Check Matters.” WBUR, June 28, 2021. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/06/28/twitter-verification-blue-check-yashar-ali-kaivan-shroff
41. Confessore, Nicholas, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris And Mark Hansen. “The Follower Factory.” New York Times, January 27, 2018. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html
42. Confessore, Nicholas, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris. “Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts.” New York Times, January 31, 2018. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/31/technology/social-media-bots-investigations.html
43. “Rachel Maddow Busted Using Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts To Boost Mentions Of Her Show.” theblacksphere.net/2013/03/rachel-maddow-busted-using-multiple-fake-twitter-accounts-to-boost-mentions-of-her-show. Original blog post here: freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992736/posts
44. See Dice, above.
45. “Trump Used ‘Fight’ Or ‘Fighting’ 20 Times in Rally Speech, Dean Says.” Associated Press, February 10, 2021. www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-use-rally-footage-to-argue-incitement
46. Feiner, Lauren. “Twitter Bans Trump, Says Plans for Jan. 17 Armed Protests Are Circulating.” CNBC, January 8, 2021. www.cnbc.com/2021/01/08/twitter-permanently-suspends-trumps-account.html
47. Sargent, Kayla. “YouTube Joins Other Big Tech Platforms, Censors President Donald Trump.” Media Research Center, January 13th, 2021. www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/kayla-sargent/2021/01/13/youtube-joins-other-big-tech-platforms-censors-president
48. Hall, Alexander. “Six Tech Platforms Censor Trump or Supporters Over DC Riot.” Media Research Center, January 8th, 2021. www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/alexan-der-hall/2021/01/08/six-tech-platforms-censor-trump-or-supporters-over-dc
49. MetaNewsRoom. Twitter, January 7, 2021. twitter.com/metanewsroom/sta-tus/1347211647245578241
50. Dore, Jimmy. “Did FBI Instigate The January 6 Riots?” Jimmy Dore Show, September 21, 2022. youtu.be/--fTF7zhk4g
51. Hanneman, Joseph. “Ashli Babbitt Pleaded With Police To Call for Backup Moments Before She Was Shot and Killed.” Epoch Times, January 19, 2022. www.theepochtimes.com/ashli-babbitt-dramatically-confronted-police-for-not-stopping-rioters_4220583.html?utm_ source=partner&utm_medium=internal
52. I’m not a lawyer, but the ”inciting imminent violence” standard of Brandenberg v. Ohio seems clear. Trump’s speech should be protected unless it led to imminent violence (ie before the police could arrive). I just don’t see it. Calling the election fraudulent was certainly dis-tasteful to many, but Trump called for a peaceful march. Moreover, the police had ample time prior to the protest’s arrival at the Capitol.
53. “Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy.” December 2021. help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misinformation-policy
54. Greene’s personal account was banned after she tweeted anti-lockdown opinions and data about vaccine injuries. “Twitter Bans Personal Greene Account for Covid Misinforma-tion.” Politico, January 2, 2022. www.politico.com/news/2022/01/02/twitter-bans-greene-covid-526362
55. Gutman-Wei, Rachel. “The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here.” The Atlantic, December 9, 2021. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/fully-vaccinated-omicron-infec-tions/620953
    Estrin, Daniel. “Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing A Dramatic Surge In New COVID Cases. Here’s Why.” NPR, August 20, 2021. www.npr.org/sections/goatsand-soda/2021/08/20/1029628471/highly-vaccinated-israel-is-seeing-a-dramatic-surge-in-new-covid-cases-heres-why
56. “Vaccines Work.” www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/work.html
57. Boyd, Scott. “Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff Locked Out by Twitter Over Confirmed Face Mask Realities.” Freedom First Network, May 15, 2021. freedomfirstnetwork.com/2021/05/harvard-epidemiologist-martin-kulldorff-locked-out-by-twitter-over-con-firmed-face-mask-realities
58. Griffin, Riley. ”Pfizer Boosts Forecast for Vaccine Sales to $33.5 Billion.” Bloomberg, July 28, 2021. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-28/pfizer-expects-covid-vaccine-sales-to-top-33-billion-this-year
59. Howe, Caleb. “Twitter Suspends Grabien Media for Sharing Video, Quote of Republican Rep. on Fox News.” Mediaite, January 1, 2022. www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-suspends-grabien-media-for-sharing-video-quote-of-republican-rep-on-fox-news/amp
60. Ellliott, Tom. [Tweet] Twitter, December 31, 2021. twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1476978027267510277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
61. Goodin, Dan. “Twitter Lost Control of Its Internal Systems To Bitcoin-Scamming Hack-ers.” Ars Technica, July 15, 2020. arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/twitter-lost-control-of-its-internal-systems-to-bitcoin-scamming-hackers
62. Bicheno, Scott. “Massive Twitter Hack Reveals Evidence of Shadow Banning Tools.” telecoms.com, July 16, 2020. telecoms.com/505597/massive-twitter-hack-reveals-evidence-of-shadow-banning-tools
63. Skelding, Conor and Jon Levine. “New Twitter CEO Raises Free-Speech Worries.” New York Post, December 4, 2021. nypost.com/2021/12/04/new-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-raises-free-speech-concerns
64. Binder, Matt. “Twitter Is Now Adding a Controversial ‘Hacked Materials’ Warning Label To Tweets.” Mashable, February 23, 2021. mashable.com/article/twitter-hacked-materials-warning-label
65. Dore, Jimmy. “Twitter’s Suppression Makes Article Go Viral.” Jimmy Dore Show, February 25, 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQfGVpU1Eg0
66. See Binder, above.
67. Cobain, Ian. “Twitter Executive for Middle East Is British Army ‘Psyops’ Soldier.” Middle East Eye, September 30, 2019. www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-part-time-officer-uk-army-psychological-warfare-unit
68. Gilbert, David. “A Senior Twitter Exec Has Been Moonlighting in the British Army’s Information Warfare Unit.” Vice, September 30, 2019. www.vice.com/en/article/ywa5m7/a-senior-twitter-exec-has-been-moonlighting-in-the-british-armys-information-warfare-unit
    

Chapter 9: Mockingbirds Migrate to Social Media

1. This video can still be found with persistent searching. “We Have Been Lied To: American Doctors Address Covid Misinformation At Scotus Press Conference.” www.bitchute.com/video/zr04GsUupOwk
2. Bokhari, Allum. “Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter Censor Viral Video of Doctors’ Capitol Hill Coronavirus Press Conference.” Breitbart News, July 27, 2020. www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/facebook-censors-viral-video-of-doctors-capitol-hill-coronavirus-press-conference
3. Schwartz, Ian. “Facebook and YouTube Ban Video of Doctors Talking COVID, Silenced Doctors Hold Press Conference.” RealClearPolitics, July 28, 2020. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/07/28/facebook_and_youtube_ban_video_of_doctors_talking_covid_silenced_doctors_hold_press_conference.html?spotim_referrer=recirculation
4. Passantino, Jon and Oliver Darcy. “Social Media Giants Remove Viral Video with False Coronavirus Claims that Trump Retweeted.” CNN Business, July 28, 2020. www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/tech/facebook-youtube-coronavirus/index.html
5. Andrews, Travis M. and Danielle Paquette. “Trump Retweeted a Video With False Covid-19 Claims. One Doctor in It Has Said Demons Cause Illnesses.” Washington Post, July 29, 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/28/stella-immanuel-hydroxychloro-quine-video-trump-americas-frontline-doctors
6. “Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online.” New York Times, July 28, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/technology/virus-video-trump.html
7. Zadrozny, Brandy and Ben Collins. “Dark Money and PAC’s Coordinated ‘Reopen’ Push Are Behind Doctors’ Viral Hydroxychloroquine Video.” NBC News, July 28, 2020. www. nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/dark-money-pac-s-coordinated-reopen-push-are-behind-doctors-n1235100
8. Stracqualursi, Veronica. “Trump Promotes a Doctor Who Has Claimed Alien DNA Was Used in Medical Treatments.” CNN, July 29, 2020. www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/stella-immanuel-trump-doctor
9. Frenkel, Sheera and Davey Alba. “Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online.” New York Times, July 28, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/technology/virus-video-trump.html
10. It wasn’t until January 2021 that corporate media allowed this science to be examined openly, with stories in Newsweek and Fox News:
    Colarossi, Natalie. “COVID Lockdowns May Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows.” Newsweek, January 14, 2021. www.newsweek.com/covid-lockdowns-have-no-clear-benefit-vs-other-voluntary-measures-international-study-shows-1561656
    Best, Paul. “Mandatory Lockdowns May Not Be Any Better at Controlling COVID-19 Than Less Restrictive Measures, Study Finds.” Fox News, January 15, 2021. www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-lockdowns-may-have-no-clear-benefit-vs-voluntary-measures-interna-tional-study-says
11. “The Frontline Doctor Who Went Viral.” The Highwire, July 29, 2020. thehighwire.com/videos/the-frontline-doctor-who-went-viral
12. Johnson, Timothy. “YouTube Terminates Anti-Vaccine Figure Del Bigtree’s Account After He Pushed Dangerous Coronavirus and Vaccine Misinformation.” Media Matters, July 30, 2020. www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/youtube-terminates-anti-vaccine-figure-del-bigtrees-account-after-he-pushed
13. Informed Consent Action Network. “ICAN Files Opposition To Facebook and YouTube’s Motion To Dismiss Its Censorship Lawsuit.” June 26, 2021. www.icandecide.org/ican_press/ican-files-opposition-to-facebook-and-youtubes-motion-to-dismiss-its-censorship-lawsuit
14. See Informed Consent Action Network, above.
15. Greenwald, Glenn. “Court Rejects Google’s Attempt to Dismiss Rumble’s Antitrust Lawsuit, Ensuring Vast Discovery.” July 30, 2022. greenwald.substack.com/p/court-rejects-googles-attempt-to
16. Iversen, Kim. “Biden and Fauci Sued For Coercing Big Tech To Censor Dissent.” Rising, July 14, 2022. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jkITpnDp4
17. Ozimek, Tom. “Court Rules Against Social Media Companies in Free Speech Censorship Fight.” Epoch Times, September 17, 2022. www.theepochtimes.com/court-rules-against-social-media-companies-in-free-speech-censorship-fight_4737140.html
18. Informed Consent Action Network. Facebook post, November 23, 2020. www.facebook.com/ICANdecide/posts/1928482153958446
19. Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab Partners With Facebook To Combat Disinformation in Democratic Elections. Atlantic Council, May 17, 2018. www.atlantic-council.org/news/press-releases/atlantic-councils-digital-forensic-research-lab-partners-with-facebook
20. Bokhari, Allum. “Report: Google Financially Blacklists ZeroHedge, Threatens the Federalist Over Comment Sections.” Breitbart, June 16, 2020. www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/06/16/google-financially-blacklists-the-federalist-and-zerohedge-at-the-behest-of-nbc-leftist-nonprofit
21. “With Biden in Office, Twitter Shuts Down Antifa Accounts That Have 71K Followers.” Law Officer News, January 22, 2021. www.lawofficer.com/with-biden-in-office-twitter-shuts-down-antifa-accounts-that-have-71k-followers
22. Cathell, Mia. “Here Are the Antifa Groups Facebook Has Banned and the Ones That Are Still Active.” Post Millennial, August 20, 2020. thepostmillennial.com/here-are-the-antifa-groups-facebook-has-banned-and-here-are-the-ones-it-hasnt
23. “Facebook Escalates Attack on Socialist Left.” World Socialist Website, January 25, 2021. www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/25/pers-j25.html
24. Krystal Ball and Rachel Bovard. “Kyle Kulinski: Previewing the Hellish Future of MSNBC in the Biden Era.” Rising, August 4, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC8bXEm xI5k&list=TLPQMTIwODIwMjAB9s7g52eFaA&index=3
25. Maté, Aaron. “Lee Camp on Bernie Sanders Smears,” The Grayzone, March 8, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiSaEc58uUc
26. “Aaron Ginn.” CensorTrack, March 20, 2020. censortrack.org/case/aaron-ginn
27. Ginn tweeted on July 18, 2021: “Google is reading what you host in Google Docs. They deleted and removed access to my personal copy of Evidence over Hysteria: COVID-19. Free is never free.” www.twitter.com/aginnt/status/1416860936946823185
28. Schemmel, Alec. “SILENCED! Twitter Suspends Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe Permanently.” Media Research Center, April 15, 2021. www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/alec-schemmel/2021/04/15/silenced-twitter-suspends-project-veritas-founder-james
29. Berenson, Alex. “Goodbye Twitter. I Am Officially Suspended.” Substack Personal blog. August 28, 2021. alexberenson.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter
30. Pariseau, Gabriela. “Twitter ‘Permanently Suspended’ Alex Berenson for Alleged Misinformation.” Media Research Center, August 30th, 2021. www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/gabriela-pariseau/2021/08/30/censored-twitter-permanently-suspended-alex-berenson
31. This unanimous decision also prevented state governments from banning anyone–even sex offenders–from social media platforms, calling Facebook and Twitter Americans’ “principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge.” Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730, 1737 (2017).
32. See Informed Consent Action Network, above.
33. Gramlich, John. “10 Facts About Americans and Facebook.” Pew Research Center, June 1, 2021. www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank /2021/06/01/facts-about-americans-and-facebook
34. “Section 230: The Most Important Law Protecting Internet Speech.” Electronic Frontier Foundation. www.eff.org/issues/cda230
35. Owens Jeremy C. “Why Governments Are Giving Billions in Tax Breaks To Apple, Ama-zon and Other Tech Giants.” MarketWatch, October 14, 2016. www.marketwatch.com/story/why-governments-are-giving-billions-in-tax-breaks-to-apple-amazon-and-other-tech-giants-2016-10-13
36. Pichai, Sundar. “Coronavirus: How we’re helping.” Company Blog Announcement. March 6, 2020. blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/coronavirus-covid19-response
37. “Schiff Urges Google, YouTube, Twitter to Inform Users Who Interact With Coronavirus Misinformation.” Congressional Press Release, April 30, 2020. schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/schiff-urges-google-youtube-twitter-to-inform-users_who-interact-with-coronavirus-misinformation
38. DeCosta-Klipa, Nik. “Mark Zuckerberg Tells Ed Markey How Facebook Will Respond to Posts by Donald Trump That Undermine the Election.” Boston Globe, October 28, 2020. www.boston.com/news/politics/2020/10/28/mark-zuckerberg-ed-markey-facebook-respond-donald-trump-election-posts
39. Flegenheimer, Matt, Rebecca R. Ruiz, Nellie Bowles. “Bernie Sanders and His Online Army.” New York Times, February 22, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/bernie-sanders-internet-supporters-2020.html
40. Stanage, Niall. “The Memo: No, Really–What if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Runs for President?” The Hill, July 29, 2022. thehill.com/homenews/house/3578887-the-memo-no-really-what-if-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-runs-for-president
41. Ball, Molly. “On the Campaign Trail With Marjorie Taylor Greene.” Time, June 14, 2022. time.com/6186463/marjorie-taylor-greene-interview-georgia
42. Jilani, Zaid. “‘Bernie Bro’ Aggression Is Actually Political Engagement.” Forward, February 27, 2020. forward.com/opinion/440613/senator-sanders-reframe-the-bernie-bro-narrative-as-the-lifeblood-of
43. Polumbo, Brad. “Criminalizing Free Speech Online? Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan for That.” Washington Examiner, January 29, 2020. www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/elizabeth-warren-unveils-dystopian-fighting-disinformation-plan-criminalizing-free-speech-online
44. Hasson, Peter J. The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech’s War on Conservatives. Regnery Publishing. Washington, D.C. 2020.
45. Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Public Affairs. New York, New York. 2019.
46. Berreby, David. “Click To Agree With What? No One Reads Terms Of Service, Studies Confirm.” The Guardian, March 3, 2017. www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/03/terms-of-service-online-contracts-fine-print
47. Morrison, Sara. “How the Capitol Riot Revived Calls To Reform Section 230.” Vox, January 11, 2021. www.vox.com/recode/22221135/capitol-riot-section-230-twitter-hawley-democrats
    

Chapter 10: Checking Facts at the Door

1. We will get into Haddad’s case in great detail in Chapter 12. Macleod, Alan. “Newsweek Journo Quits After Editors Kill Report on Syria Chemical Attack Scandal.” MintPress News, December 9 2019. www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-tareq-haddad-quits-syria-douma-opcw/263292
2. Fisk, Robert. “The Search for Truth in the Rubble of Douma – And One Doctor’s Doubts Over the Chemical Attack.” The Independent, April 17, 2018. www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-gas-douma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8307726.html
3. Dore, Jimmy. “CNN Reporter Sniffs ‘Poison’ on Air.” Jimmy Dore Show, April 26, 2018. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mydfue-vF90
4. El Sirgany, Sarah and Hilary Clarke. “Gassed Where They Had Hidden, Syrian Families Killed In Minutes.” CNN, April 9, 2018. www.cnn.com/2018/04/09/middleeast/syria-douma-victims-intl
5. Browne, Malachy, Christophe Koettl, et.al. “One Building, One Bomb: How Assad Gassed His Own People.” New York Times, June 25, 2018. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/25/world/middleeast/syria-chemical-attack-douma.html
6. See Dore, above.
7. MSNBC has taken down the episode, but it’s preserved online, including in a worthwhile Jimmy Dore Show episode: Dore, Jimmy. “Professor Stuns MSNBC Panel on Syria.” Jimmy Dore Show, April 18, 2018. www.youtu.be/O2TRzA2ezk
8. “Ex-OPCW Chief Jose Bustani Reads Syria Testimony That US, UK Blocked at UN.” The Grayzone, October 5, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIDlgD_txM
9. Niemuth, Niles. “New WikiLeaks Documents Expose Phony Claims of 2018 Syria Chemical Weapons Attack.” World Socialist Website, December 16, 2019. www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/16/chem-d16.html
10. “OPCW Douma Docs.” WikiLeaks, 2019. wikileaks.org/opcw-douma
11. “BBC Admits Syria Chemical Attack Documentary Had ‘Serious Flaws.’” The Cradle, September 6, 2021. thecradle.co/Article/news/1666
12. “Flanagan. Padraic. BBC Admits Syria Gas Attack Report Had Serious Flaws in ‘Victory for Truth’ After Complaint by Peter Hitchens.” Daily Mail, September 4, 2021. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9958679/BBC-admits-Syria-gas-attack-report-flaws-complaint-Peter-Hitchens.html
13. Cobban, Helena. “Did Assad Really Use Chemical Weapons in Douma?“ Lobe Log, June 11, 2019. lobelog.com/did-assad-really-use-chemical-weapons-in-douma
14. Dore, Jimmy. “BBC Host Tries Censoring Truth on Syria.” Jimmy Dore Show, April 26, 2018. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwXfHyTlCo
15. Maté, Aaron. “New Leaks Shatter OPCW’s Attacks on Douma Whistleblowers.” The Grayzone, February 11, 2020. thegrayzone.com/2020/02/11/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-attacks-douma-whistleblowers
16. Dore, Jimmy. “Syrian Gas Attack Was Staged, Leaked Documents Reveal.” Jimmy Dore Show, May 22, 2019. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLRQSfSKoJo
17. Greenberg, Jon. “False: Red Crescent Says No Evidence of Chemical Attack in Syria’s Douma.” Politifact, April 13, 2018. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/apr/13/antiwarcom/syrian-red-crescent-did-not-deny-chemical-attack-d
18. Gillin, Joshua. “Conspiracy Claims That Syrian Gas Attack Was ‘False Flag’ Are Unproven.” Politifact, April 7, 2017. www.politifact.com/article/2017/apr/07/unproven-online-theories-doubting-syrian-gas-attac
19. Lucas Nolan. “John Stossel Sues Facebook Alleging Defamation Over ‘Fact-Check’ Label.” Breitbart, September 24, 2021. www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/09/24/john-stossel-sues-facebook-alleging-defamation-over-fact-check-label
20. “Facebook Admits the Truth: ‘Fact Checks’ Are Really Just (Lefty) Opinion.” New York Post, December 14, 2021. nypost.com/2021/12/14/facebook-admits-the-truth-fact-checks-are-really-just-lefty-opinion
21. The Poynter Institute PolitiFact. “Who Pays for PolitiFact?” January, 2022. www.politifact.com/who-pays-for-politifact
22. The Poynter Institute. “Poynter’s Top Funding Sources.” April 2022. www.poynter.org/major-funders/#1632843888743-52666069-9ec9
23. Factcheck.org. “Our Funding.” www.factcheck.org/our-funding
24. Goodman, Alana. “Facebook ‘Fact Checker’ Who Will Arbitrate on ‘Fake News’ Is Accused of Defrauding Website To Pay for Prostitutes.” Daily Mail, December 21, 2016. www. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4042194
25. Patrick, Jim. “‘Fact-Checking’ Snopes Co-Founder David Mikkelson Accused of ‘Daily Sex Assaults’ by Second Wife.” Law Enforcement Daily, September 30, 2021. www.lawenforcementtoday.com/fact-checking-snopes-co-founder-david-mikkelson-accused-of-daily-sex-assaults-by-second-wife
26. Streitfeld, David. “For Fact-Checking Website Snopes, a Bigger Role Brings More Attacks.” New York Times, December 25, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/technology/for-fact-checking-website-snopes-a-bigger-role-brings-more-attacks.html
27. Jones, Dean Sterling. “The Co-Founder of Snopes Wrote Dozens of Plagiarized Articles.” Buzzfeed News, August 27, 2021. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson
28. Groundbreaking blogger Vani Hari found that Snopes came after her for writing negatively about Monsanto’s RoundUp: Hari, Vani. “Do You Trust Snopes? You Won’t After Reading This.” foodbabe.com/do-you-trust-snopes-you-wont-after-reading-how-they-work-with-monsanto-operatives
29. Science Feedback. Partners, Funders & Donors. www.sciencefeedback.co/partners-funders-donors
30. Such as: “Viral New York Post Article Perpetuates the Unfounded Claim that the Virus that Causes Covid-19 is Manmade.” www.sciencefeedback.co/evaluation/viral-new-york-post-article-perpetuates-the-unfounded-claim-that-the-covid-19-virus-is-manmade
31. Warren, Michael and Ron Harris. “Hank Aaron, Civil Rights Leaders Get Vaccinated in Georgia.” Associated Press, January 5, 2021. apnews.com/article/georgia-andrew-young-hank-aaron-coronavirus-pandemic-atlanta-2f32ea8b2067d85202b2d22665fde739
32. Department of Justice Press Release. “Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History.” September 2, 2009. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history
33. Facher, Lee. “The White House Is Set To Unveil a Wide-Reaching, Billion-Dollar Campaign Aimed At Convincing Every American To Get Vaccinated.” STAT, March 15, 2021. www.statnews.com/2021/03/15/white-house-unveil-a-wide-reaching-billion-dollar-campaign-convincing-every-american-to-get-vaccinated
34. Tyson, Alec, Courtney Johnson & Cary Funk. “U.S. Public Now Divided Over Whether To Get COVID-19 Vaccine.” Pew Research, September 17, 2020. www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/09/17/u-s-public-now-divided-over-whether-to-get-covid-19-vaccine
35. Gore, D’Angelo. “Hank Aaron’s Death Attributed to Natural Causes.” Factcheck.org, January 28, 2021. www.factcheck.org/2021/01/scicheck-hank-aarons-death-attributed-to-natural-causes
36. Kennedy Jr., Robert. “National Media Pushes Vaccine Misinformation–Coroner’s Office Never Saw Hank Aaron’s Body.” Defender, Children’s Health Defense, February 12, 2021. childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/national-media-vaccine-misinformation-hank-aaron
37. No phase of the clinical trials provided data on safety or efficacy for people over 80, and Aaron was 86. The analysis of the largest data set, the Phase 3 trials, included data on adults over 65 and indicated that as adults aged, efficacy and safety declined. “Safety and Immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 Vaccine in Older Adults.” New England Journal of Medicine, December 17, 2020. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2028436
38. There were 1,400 reported deaths in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) at the time, a number that surpassed 30,000 in 2022. It is the only publicly available data on vaccine deaths in the US. Some believe these numbers undercount vaccine deaths; others believe they overcount deaths.openvaers.com/covid-data
39. www.factcheck.org/author/dangelo-gore/
40. “Here are 410 Movies Made Under the Direct Influence and Supervision of the Pentagon.” The Free Thought Project, August 7, 2018. www.thefreethoughtproject.com/here-are-410-movies-made-under-the-direct-influence-and-supervision-of-the-pentagon
41. “Gates Foundation, Viacom Partner To Insert Educational Messages Into Television Programming.” Philanthropy News Digest, April 3, 2009. www.philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-viacom-partner-to-insert-educational-messages-into-television-programming
42. Dice, Mark. “One of Hollywood’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed.” YouTube, February 17, 2022. www.rumble.com/vtlopa-entertainment-liaison-offices-in-depth-report.html
43. Dice, Mark. “The Sun Valley Conference: Where Mainstream Media, Social Media, and CIA Meet To Coordinate Agendas.” YouTube, April 15, 2016. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL4WkMhDemQ
44. Browne, Malachy, Christoph Koettl, Anjali Singhvi, et al. “One Building, One Bomb: How Assad Gassed His Own People.” New York Times, June 24, 2018. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/25/world/middleeast/syria-chemical-attack-douma.html
45. Maté, Aaron. “Bellingcaught: Who Is the Mysterious Author of Bellingcat’s Attacks on OPCW Whistleblower?” Grayzone, March 24, 2021. thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/author-bellingcat-opcw-whistleblower
46. MacLeod, Alan. “How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points Into the Press.” MintPress News, April 9, 2021. www.mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-intelligence-agencies-launders-talking-points-media/276603
47. “comScore Ranks the Top 50 U.S. Digital Media Properties for January 2015.” February 24, 2015. web.archive.org/web/20150317071240/http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Ranks-the-Top-50-US-Digital-Media-Properties-for-January-2015
48. “Wikipedia Co-Founder: I No Longer Trust the Website I Created.” Unherd, July 14, 2021. www.youtu.be/l0P4Cf0UCwU
49. Stieber, Zachary. “NIH: Check Out Wikipedia To See Why Great Barrington Declaration Is ‘Dangerous.’” Epoch Times, December 24, 2021. www.theepochtimes.com/nih-check-out-wikipedia-to-see-why-great-barrington-declaration-is-dangerous_4176405.html
50. “MeWe.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeWe Quoted on June 1, 2022.
51. Flomenbaum, Adam. “Why the Young Turks Launched a Facebook-Native Show.” Ad Week, February 24, 2015. www.adweek.com/lostremote/why-the-young-turks-launched-a-facebook-native-show/50404
52. Sprangler, Todd. “Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo Invests in TYT Network As Part of $20 Million Round.” Variety, August 8, 2016. variety.com/2017/digital/news/young-turks-jeffrey-katzenberg-wndrco-funding-1202518938
53. “The Drone Papers.” theintercept.com/drone-papers
54. Gallagher, Ryan. “Profiled -From Radio To Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities.” The Intercept, September 25, 2015. theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-track-web-users-online-identities
55. Glenn, Greenwald. “The ‘Bernie Bros’ Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquer-ading As Journalism and Social Activism.” The Intercept, January 31, 2016. theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism
56. Gallagher, Ryan. “U.S. Military Bans The Intercept.” The Intercept, August 20, 2014. theintercept.com/2014/08/20/u-s-military-bans-the-intercept
57. Harkin, James. “Douma Chemical Attacks and the Fog of Syria’s Propaganda War.” The Intercept, February 9 2019. www.theintercept.com/2019/02/09/douma-chemical-attack-evidence-syria
58. Nelson, Steven. “Glenn Greenwald Quits The Intercept Over ‘Censorship’ of Hunter Biden Article.” New York Post, October 29, 2020. nypost.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-quits-the-intercept-over-hunter-biden-article
59. Rukeyser, Muriel. “The Speed of Darkness.” 2006. www.poetryfoundation.org/search?query=The+Speed+of+Darkness
60. I don’t love the word “elite,” as it implies a superiority in talent or skill, such as an elite musician, programmer, or scientist . Reactionaries are often inferior when judged purely on talents and skills.
61. NPR puts a positive spin on this closed-doors convention of media, government, and intelligence brass: Gura, David. “Moguls, Deals And Patagonia Vests: A Look Inside ‘Summer Camp For Billionaires.’” NPR Morning Edition, July 5, 2021. www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1012587989/moguls-deals-and-patagonia-vests-a-look-inside-summer-camp-for-billionaires
    

Chapter 11: The Century of Propaganda

1. McChesney, R. W. (2003). The Problem Of Journalism: A Political Economic Contribution To An Explanation Of The Crisis In Contemporary Us Journalism. Journalism Studies, 4(3), 319. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616700306492
2. See McChesney, above.
3. Tarbell, Ida. “The History of the Standard Oil Company.” McClure’s, November 1903. www.google.com/books/edition/McClure_s_Magazine/THvhO1HipFEC?hl=en&gbpv=1
4. See McChesney, above.
5. Perloff, James. “Spanish-American War: Trial Run for Interventionism.” The New American, August 10, 2012. www.thenewamerican.com/trial-run-for-interventionism
6. Kashatus, William. “This Was a Real ‘Fake News’ Story – And It Landed Us in a War.” History News Network, February 26, 2018. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/168374
7. Bernays, Edward. Propaganda. Horace Liveright, Inc. New York, NY. 1928.
8. Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. U.S. Supreme Court, Legal Information Institute, 1940. www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/309/134
9. “The Kazakh Famine of 1930-33 and the Politics of History in the Post-Soviet Space.” Woodrow Wilson Center, March 26, 2012. www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-kazakh-famine-1930-33-and-the-politics-history-the-post-soviet-space
10. Perović, Jeronim. “Highland Rebels: The North Caucasus During the Stalinist Collectivization Campaign.” Journal of Contemporary History, April 2016. pp. 234-260. www.jstor.org/stable/24671839
11. Holocaust and Genocide Studies. “Holodomor: The Ukrainian Genocide.” University of Minnesota. cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor
12. “New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty.” New York Times. www.nytco.com/company/prizes-awards/new-york-times-statement-about-1932-pulitzer-prize-awarded-to-walter-duranty
13. See New York Times statement, above.
14. Schou, Nick. Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb. PublicAffairs. New York, New York. 2006.
15. Louise, Nickie. “These 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media Outlets in America.” Tech Startups, September 18, 2020. techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-90-media-america-illusion-choice-objectivity-2020
16. When Viacom and CBS merged in 2019 (for a second time) and became what is now known as Paramount, we were left with just five megacorporations controlling the conduits of the media: Disney-ABC; Comcast-NBC; Paramount-CBS; NewsCorp-Fox; and Warner-CNN.
17. Adams, Dominic. “Closing the Valve On History: Flint Cuts Water Flow From Detroit After Nearly 50 Years.” Michigan Live, April 25, 2014, www.mlive.com/news/flint/2014/04/closing_the_valve_on_history_f.html
18. Goheen, Wesley and Gino Vicci. “How Safe Is Your Tap Water?” WNEM Channel 5, May 16, 2014. www.wnem.com/news/how-safe-is-your-tap-water/article_61de20f7-3007-5c40-b2b4-89cc49a64f3b.html
19. Fonger, Ron. “State Says Flint River Water Meets All Standards but More Than Twice the Hardness of Lake Water.” Flint Journal, May. 23, 2014. www.mlive.com/news/flint/2014/05/state_says_flint_river_water_m.html
20. In fact recognized by the UN as a human right on July 28, 2010.
21. Young, Molly. “Flint Officials Confirm ‘Massive’ Water Theft Investigation, Crackdown.” Michigan Live, September 17, 2014. www.mlive.com/news/flint/2014/09/flint_officials_ confirm_massiv.html
22. Ruble, Kayla and Jacob Carah. “Flint Water Crisis Deaths Likely Surpass Official Toll.” Frontline, PBS. July 24, 2018. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/flint-water-crisis-deaths-likely-surpass-official-toll
23. Chariton, Jordan and Jenn Dize. “Michigan’s Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew About Flint’s Toxic Water–and Lied About It.” VICE, April 16, 2020. www.vice.com/en/article/z3bdp9/michigans-ex-gov-rick-snyder-knew-about-flints-toxic-waterand-lied-about-it
24. Egan, Paul, and Todd Spangler. “President Obama Declares Emergency in Flint.” Detroit Free Press, January 16, 2016. www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/01/16/president-obama-declares-emergency-flint/78898604
25. Salamacha, Becca. “Supreme Court declines to hear Flint, Michigan, officials’ appeal over water crisis.” Jurist, January 22, 2020. www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-flint-michigan-officials-appeal-over-water-crisis
26. See Salamacha, above.
27. Romo, Vanessa. “Supreme Court Allows Flint Water Lawsuits To Move Forward, Officials Not ‘Immune.’” NPR, January 21, 2020. www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798331185/supreme-court-allows-flint-water-lawsuits-to-move-forward-officials-not-immune
28. See Salamacha, above.
29. Chariton, Jordan. “Flint Water Cover-Up: More Details From Our Stunning Story.” Status Coup, July 22, 2021. www.youtube.com/ridg4N2Ag6o
30. Chariton, Jordan and Charlie LeDuff. “Revealed: The Flint Water Poisoning Charges That Never Came To Light.” The Guardian, January 17, 2022. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/17/flint-water-poisoning-charges
31. In 2021, a federal judge finally awarded $626 million in settlements of claims. Egan, Paul. “Federal Judge Gives Final Approval to $626.25M Settlement in Flint Water Crisis.” Detroit Free Press, November 10, 2021. www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2021/11/10/federal-judge-approves-settlement-flint-lead-poisoning-case/5556131001
32. Hoy, Toni. “The Amygdala: Function & Psychology of Fight or Flight.” BetterHelp, April 14, 2022. www.betterhelp.com/advice/psychologists/the-amygdala-function-psychology-of-fight-or-flight
    

Chapter 12: Your Views Are No Longer Needed

1. “Jimmy vs. Anand Giridharadas!” Jimmy Dore Show, May 14, 2020. www.podgist.com/the-jimmy-dore-show/jimmy-vs-anand-giridharadas/index.html
2. Dore, Jimmy. “Ed Schultz Death: What MSNBC Won’t Tell You.” Jimmy Dore Show, July 7, 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=syVTtJge 8
3. Kilpatrick, Connor. “Krystal Ball is the Anti-Rachel Maddow Bernie Fans Have Been Waiting For.” Jacobin, December 19, 2019. www.jacobinmag.com/2019/12/krystal-ball-rising-the-hill-msnbc
4. See Kilpatrick, above.
5. See Kilpatrick, above.
6. Schou, Nick. Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb. Nation Books. New York, New York. 2006. pp8-9.
7. Schou, Nick. “Ex-L.A. Times Writer Apologizes For “Tawdry” Attacks.” LA Weekly, May 30, 2013. www.laweekly.com/ex-l-a-times-writer-apologizes-for-tawdry-attacks
8. “The New York Times Wants Gary Webb To Stay Dead.” The Nation, October 10, 2014. www.thenation.com/article/archive/new-york-times-wants-gary-webb-stay-dead
9. “WPost’s Slimy Assault on Gary Webb.” Consortium News, October 18, 2014. consortiumnews.com/2014/10/18/wposts-slimy-assault-on-gary-webb
10. Borjesson, Kristina. Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose The Myth Of A Free Press. Prometheus. New York, New York. 2004.
11. Colen, Aaron. “Frustrated ABC News Anchor Caught on Hot Mic Saying Network Suppressed Epstein Story for Years.” Blaze, November 5, 2019. www.theblaze.com/news/frustrated-abc-news-anchor-caught-on-hot-mic-saying-network-suppressed-epstein-story-for-years
12. Folkenflik, David. “A Dead Cat, a Lawyer’s Call, and a Five-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short on Epstein.” All Things Considered, August 22, 2019. www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753390385/a-dead-cat-a-lawyers-call-and-a-5-figure-donation-how-media-fell-short-on-epstei
13. Banfield, Ashleigh. “Landon Lecture Series on Public Affairs.” Kansas State University, April 24, 2003. www.k-state.edu/landon/speakers/ashleigh-banfield/video.html
14. Banfield, Ashleigh. “Landon Lecture at Kansas State University Transcript.” American Rhetoric, April 24, 2003. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ashleighbanfieldlandonksu. htm
15. Dumas, Timothy. “Truth and Consequences: Meet Ashleigh Banfield. She Spoke Out About TV War Coverage and Paid a High Price. Would She Do It Again?” New Canaan-Darien Magazine, February 2009. web.archive.org/web/20150217090152/http://www. newcanaandarienmag.com/n/January-2009/Truth-and-Consequences/index.php?cparticle= 1&siarticle=0#artanc
16. Ariens, Chris. “I Will Never Forgive Him for His Cruelty and the Manner in Which He Decided to Dispose of Me.” Adweek, February 11, 2009. www.adweek.com/tvnewser/i-will-never-forgive-him-for-his-cruelty-and-the-manner-in-which-he-decided-to-dispose-of-me/23865/
17. Dorman, Sam. “Newsweek Reporter Quits, Claiming Outlet ‘Suppressed’ Story on Global Chemical Weapons Watchdog.” Fox News, December 7, 2019. www.foxnews.com/media/newsweek-reporter-tareq-haddad-quits
18. MacLeod, Alan. “Inside Journalist Tareq Haddad’s Spectacular Departure from News-week.” MintPress News, December 20t 2019. www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-journalist-tareq-haddad-quits-corruption-journalism/263667
19. Haddad, Tareq. “Lies, Newsweek and Control of the Media Narrative.” December 14, 2019. www.tareqhaddad.com/investigation-lies-newsweek-and-control-of-the-media-narrative-first-hand-account
20. “Jesse Ventura’s Talk Not Cheap for MSNBC.” Globe & Mail, February 10, 2003. www. theglobeandmail.com/arts/jesse-venturas-talk-not-cheap-for-msnbc/article18284415
21. Collins, Scott. “Jesse Ventura Searches for Coverups.” Los Angeles Times, November 29, 2009. www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-29-la-ca-conversation29-2009nov29- story.html
22. Uygur, Cenk. “Jesse Ventura: MSNBC Tried To Shut Me Up.” Huffington Post, May 9, 2010. www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-ventura-msnbc-tried_b_492237
23. Roper, Eric. “Jesse Ventura Says MSNBC Nixed His Show for Not Supporting Iraq War.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune, November 30, 2009. www.startribune.com/ventura-says-msnbc-nixed-his-show-for-not-supporting-iraq-war/78150302
24. Van Oot, Torey. “Jesse Ventura Turns to Substack.” Axios, June 1, 2022. www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2022/06/01/jesse-ventura-substack-newsletter
25. Smith, Jamil. “Melissa Harris-Perry’s Email to Her #nerdland Staff.” Medium, Feb 26, 2016. medium.com/@JamilSmith/melissa-harris-perry-s-email-to-her-nerdland-staff-11292bdc27cb#.a53n1i5n7
26. Byers, Dylan. “MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Show in Protest.” CNN, February 27, 2016. money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/media/melissa-harris-perry-msnbc/index.html
27. Weigel, David. “Melissa Harris-Perry and Rand Paul Agree on One Thing: Hillary Clinton’s ‘Appalling Choice.’” Slate, February 11, 2014. slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/02/melissa-harris-perry-and-rand-paul-agree-on-one-thing-hillary-clinton-s-appalling-choice.html
28. See Smith, above.
29. Folkenflik, David. “MSNBC Fires Host Melissa Harris-Perry Over Controversial Memo.” NPR, March 9, 2016. www.npr.org/2016/03/09/469837015/msnbc-fires-host-melissa-harris-perry-over-controversial-memo
30. “Cenk Uygur, MSNBC Differ on Why He Left.” Politico, July 21, 2011. www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0711/Cenk_Uygur_MSNBC_differ_on_why_he_left.html
31. Corcoran, Michael. “Uygur Out at MSNBC: Another Progressive Show Canceled for Political Reasons.” FAIR, November 1, 2011. fair.org/extra/uygur-out-at-msnbc
32. Mirkinson, Jack. “Cenk Uygur on Leaving MSNBC: Network Told Me To ‘Tone It Down,’ Didn’t Want To ‘Challenge Power’” HuffPost, July 21, 2011. www.huffpost.com/entry/cenk-uygur-msnbc-leaving_n_905415
33. “Rejecting Lucrative Offer, Cenk Uygur Leaves MSNBC After Being Told To ‘Act Like an Insider.’” Democracy Now, July 22, 2011. www.democracynow.org/2011/7/22/rejecting_lucrative_offer_cenk_uygur_leaves
34. “Why Cenk Uygur Left MSNBC - Part 1.” The Young Turks, July 20, 2011. youtu.be/HrKKkGl3TnY
35. Clark, Chrissy. “ABC’s David Wright Admits Network Doesn’t Care About News.” The Federalist, February 26, 2020. thefederalist.com/2020/02/26/watch-abcs-david-wright-admits-network-doesnt-care-about-news
36. See Clark, above.
37. See Clark, above.
38. See Clark, above.
39. Farhi, Paul. “ABC News Suspends Correspondent David Wright After Comments About Trump Coverage, Socialism, in Project Veritas Sting.” Washington Post, February 26, 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/abc-news-suspends-correspondent-david-wright-after-project-veritas-sting/2020/02/26/764efc06-5849-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html
40. Miller, Hayley. “Journalists Slam ABC News for Suspending David Wright After Project Veritas Sting.” Huffington Post, February 26, 2020. www.huffpost.com/entry/abc-news-suspends-david-wright-project-veritas_n_5e569234c5b62e9dc7db547d
41. See Clark, above.
42. “Leaked U.S. Video Shows Deaths of Reuters’ Iraqi Staffers.” Reuters, April 5, 2010. www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-journalists-idUSTRE6344FW20100406
43. Weir, Alison. “Remembering the Crimes of the Powerful Exposed by WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.” MintPress News, April 22, 2019. www.mintpressnews.com/remember-the-crimes-of-exposed-by-julian-assange/257652
44. Lagan, Bernard. “International Man of Mystery.” Sydney Morning Herald, April 10, 2010. www.smh.com.au/technology/international-man-of-mystery-20100409-ryvf.html
45. “The Iraq Archive: The Strands of a War.” New York Times, October 23, 2010. www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/world/middleeast/23intro.html
46. Friedman, Megan. “Julian Assange: Readers’ Choice for TIME’s Person of the Year 2010.” Time, December 13, 2010. newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/13/julian-assange-readers-choice-for-times-person-of-the-year-2010
47. Keating, Joshua. “How WikiLeaks Blew It.” Foreign Policy, August 16, 2012. foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/16/how-wikileaks-blew-it
48. Gura, David. “WikiLeaks Founder May Have Blood on His Hands, Joint Chiefs Chairman Says.” NPR, July 30, 2010. www.npr.org/sections/thetwoway/2010/07/30/128868663/wikileaks-founder-may-have-blood-on-his-hands-joint-chiefs-chairman-says
49. “WikiLeaks: Document Dumps That Shook the World.” BBC News, April 12 , 2019. www.bbc.com/news/technology-47907890
50. Sweney, Mark. “WikiLeaks Defies ‘Great Firewall of China.’” Guardian, March 19, 2008. www.theguardian.com/media/2008/mar/19/digitalmedia.tibet
51. Bruton, F. Brinley, Mo Abbas and Corky Siemaszko. “Julian Assange: Sweden Drops Rape Investigation Into WikiLeaks Founder.” NBC News, May 19, 2017. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/julian-assange-sweden-drops-rape-investigation-wikileaks-founder-n761986
52. Mackey, Robert. “Sweden Reopens Investigation of Julian Assange for Rape, Complicating U.S. Extradition.” Intercept, May 13, 2019. theintercept.com/2019/05/13/sweden-reopens-investigation-julian-assange-rape-complicates-u-s-extradition
53. Griffiths, Frank. “Julian Assange Appeals To UK Court Against Extradition To US.” Associated Press, July 1, 2022. apnews.com/article/technology-london-espionage-extradition-julian-assange-415fc4d82b1e02a2c42f1a68e13fb4b9
54. Alexandersson, Bjartmar Oddur and Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson. “Key Witness in Assange Case Admits To Lies in Indictment.” Stundin, June 26, 2021. stundin.is/grein/13627/key-witness-in-assange-case-admits-to-lies-in-indictment
55. Gregoire, Paul. “Key US Witness Admits To Falsifying Evidence Against Assange in Return for Immunity.” Sydney Criminal Lawyers, March 7, 2021. www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/key-us-witness-admits-to-falsifying-evidence-against-assange-in-return-for-immunity
56. Youssef, Nancy. “Officials May Be Overstating the Danger from WikiLeaks.” McClatchy, September 25, 2013. www.mcclatchydc.com/news/special-reports/article24602194.html
57. Greenwald, Glenn. “Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial.” Substack, December 10, 2021. greenwald.substack.com/p/julian-assange-loses-appeal-british
58. Glenn Greenwald rolls the footage and lays out the lies one by one in an episode of his podcast System Update. I’ve summarized here his scrupulous reporting on this ridiculous MSNBC segment, but it is worth viewing his video in its entirety: “The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch As NBC Tells 4 Lies in a Two-Minute Clip.” System Update, December 16, 2021. youtu.be/6TizS6SPeSI
59. Gura, David. “WikiLeaks Founder May Have Blood on His Hands, Joint Chiefs Chairman Says.” NPR, July 30, 2010. www.npr.org/sections/thetwoway/2010/07/30/128868663/wikileaks-founder-may-have-blood-on-his-hands-joint-chiefs-chairman-says
60. Ottenberg, Eve. “The Biden-Trump Persecution of Julian Assange.” Counterpunch, August 19, 2022. www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/19/the-biden-trump-persecution-of-julian-assange
61. Lee, Micah. “Crumbling Case Against Assange Shows Weakness of “Hacking” Charges Related to Whistleblowing.” The Intercept, September 30, 2020. theintercept.com/2020/09/30/assange-extradition-cfaa-hacking
62. Goodwin, Bill. “Assange Revelations Among Most Important In US History, Says Daniel Ellsberg.” Computer Weekly, 17 Sep 2020. www.computerweekly.com/news/252489159/Assange-revelations-among-most-important-in-US-history-says-Daniel-Ellsberg
63. Nakashima, Ellen. “Pentagon: Undisclosed WikiLeaks Documents ‘Potentially More Explosive.’” Washington Post, August 11, 2010. voices.washingtonpost.com/checkpoint-washington/2010/08/pentagon_undisclosed_wikileak.html
64. Holden, Michael. “WikiLeaks Acted in Public Interest, ‘Pentagon Papers’ Leaker Tells Assange Hearing.” Reuters, September 16, 2020. www.reuters.com/article/britain-assange-idINKBN26725L
65. Pleming, Sue. “Pentagon tells WikiLeaks: ‘Do right thing.’” Reuters, August 5, 2010. www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-wikileaks/pentagon-tells-wikileaks-do-right-thing-idUSTRE6744AO20100805
66. Connoly, Katie. “Has release of WikiLeaks documents cost lives?” BBC, December 1, 2010. www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11882092
67. Whitlock, Craig. “Gates: Warnings of WikiLeaks fallout overblown.” Washington Post, November 30, 2010. voices.washingtonpost.com/checkpoint-washington/2010/11/the_ obama_administration_has_w.html
68. Hosenball, Mark. “US Officials Privately Say WikiLeaks Damage Limited.” Reuters, January 18, 2011. www.reuters.com/article/wikileaks-damage/us-officials-privately-say-wikileaks-damage-limited-idUSN1816319120110118
69. Pilkington, Ed. “Bradley Manning Leak Did Not Result in Deaths by Enemy Forces, Court Hears.” The Guardian, July 31, 2013. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-sentencing-hearing-pentagon
70. Greenwald, Glenn. “NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange’s Extradition, Hiding His Key Role.” Substack, January 2, 2021. greenwald.substack.com/p/nbc-news-uses-ex-fbi-official-frank
71. Assange Defense. “Julian Assange Files His Perfected Grounds of Appeal.” August 26, 2022. assangedefense.org/press-release/julian-assange-files-his-perfected-grounds-of-appeal
    

Chapter 13: A Balanced Media Diet

1. Worden, Kristin, et al. “Many Americans Are Unsure Whether Sources of News Do Their Own Reporting.” Pew Research, December 8, 2020. www.pewresearch.org/facttank/2020/12/08/many-americans-are-unsure-whether-sources-of-news-do-their-own-reporting
2. Van Kessel, Patricia, et al. “In Their Own Words, Americans Describe the Struggles and Silver Linings of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Pew Research, March 5, 2021. www.pewresearch.org/2021/03/05/in-their-own-words-americans-describe-the-struggles-and-silver-linings-of-the-covid-19-pandemic
3. McGreal, Chris. “Broken and Distrusting: Why Americans Are Pulling Away From the Daily News.” The Guardian, July 17, 2022. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/16/americans-avoid-news-reuters-survey
4. Gottfried, Jeffrey, et al. “Americans See Skepticism of News Media as Healthy, Say Public Trust in the Institution Can Improve” Pew Research, August 31, 2020. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/08/31/americans-see-skepticism-of-news-media-as-healthy-say-public-trust-in-the-institution-can-improve
5. Stocking, Galen, et al. “Many Americans Get News on YouTube, Where News Organizations and Independent Producers Thrive Side by Side.” Pew Research, September 28, 2020. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/09/28/many-americans-get-news-on-youtube-where-news-organizations-and-independent-producers-thrive-side-by-side
6. Princeton Professor Andrew Appel has demonstrated this repeatedly:
   “Hacked Vote.” learngerman.dw.com/en/i-hack-and-i-vote/a-16363925
   Wofford, Ben. “How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes.” Politico, August 5, 2016. www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144
   Additionally, work by author Bev Harris and engineer Bennie Smith resulted in a bombshell video disclosing voting machines can award fractional votes to hide fraud. Recommended viewing:
   Harris, Bev. “Fraction Magic Detailed Vote Rigging Demonstration.” Black Box Voting, October 31, 2016. youtu.be/Fob-AGgZn44
   Bloomberg wrote up their work in a rare instance of corporate media coverage:
   Riley, Michael and Jordan Robertson. “The Computer Voting Revolution Is Already Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete.” Bloomberg Businessweek, September 29, 2016. www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-voting-technology/?leadSource=uverify%20wall
   In 2018, at a convention, children didn’t hack an actual live election–that would be illegal– so instead they hacked replicas, in mere minutes: Collier, Kevin. “An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida’s Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention. Discuss.” BuzzFeed News, August 11, 2018. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/voting-hackers-defcon-failures-manufacturers-ess
7. Wilkie, Jordan. “‘They Think They Are Above the Law’: The Firms That Own America’s Voting System.” Guardian, April 22, 2019. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/us-voting-machine-private-companies-voter-registration
8. Goodkind, Nicole. “Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bills.” Newsweek, July 26, 2019. www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-robert-mueller-election-security-russia-1451361
9. Huseman, Jessica. “The Market for Voting Machines Is Broken. This Company Has Thrived in It.” ProPublica, October 28, 2019. www.propublica.org/article/the-market-for-voting-machines-is-broken-this-company-has-thrived-in-it
10. I recommend starting with these two excellent books on the 2004 election, the first election featuring widespread use of electronic voting machines:
    Fitrakis, Robert, Steven Rosenfeld, and Harvey Wasserman. What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft And Fraud in the 2004 Election. New Press, 2006.
    Miller, Mark Crispin. Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They’ll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them). Basic Books, New York, NY. 2005.
11. Whittaker, Zack. “Senators Demand To Know Why Election Vendors Still Sell Voting Machines With ’Known Vulnerabilities.’” TechCrunch, March 27, 2019. techcrunch.com/2019/03/27/senators-security-voting-machines
12. Attkisson, Sharyl. “Democrats Coordinated Illegal Ballot Collection Scheme in Arizona, Say Prosecutors.” July 24, 2022. sharylattkisson.com/2022/07/democrats-coordinated-illegal-ballot-collection-scheme-in-arizona-say-prosecutors
13. Attkisson, Sharyl. “Summary of ‘2000 Mules,’ the Documentary About 2020 Election Fraud.” May 25, 2022. sharylattkisson.com/2022/05/summary-of-2000-mules-the-documentary-about-2020-election-fraud
14. Ball, Krystal. “Krystal Ball Dismantles Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2000 Mules’ Election Fraud Movie.” Breaking Points, May 12, 2022. youtu.be/3z1GcQla3qQ
15. Hernández, Areliz, et al. “Hurricane Maria and Its Aftermath Caused a Spike in Puerto Rico Deaths, With Nearly 3,000 More Than Normal.” Washington Post, August 28, 2018. www.washingtonpost.com/national/study-hurricane-maria-and-its-aftermath-caused-a-spike-in-puerto-rico-deaths-with-nearly-3000-more-than-normal/2018/08/28/57d6d2d6-aa43-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html
16. Kitman, Jamie Lincoln. “The Secret History of Lead.” The Nation, March 2, 2000. www. thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lead
17. Hains, Tim. “Nick Sandmann: The Truth In 15 Minutes.” Real Clear Politics, February 3, 2019. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/02/03/nick_sandmann_the_truth_in_15_ minutes.html
18. Gawande, Amar. “Who Owns Fox News 2022: The Company That Changed Media.” Who Owns, July 28, 2022. itsknows.com/who-owns-fox-news
19. Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, as well as DirectTV, Dish Network, Roku, and SlingTV all banished RT from their networks, depriving the network of both exposure and revenue: Nickinson, Phil. “Dish and Sling TV also drop Russia Today channel.” Digital Trends, March 4, 2022. www.digitaltrends.com/movies/sling-tv-dish-rt-america
20. Evans, Owen. “PayPal Shuts Down Free Speech Union and The Daily Sceptic Accounts.” Epoch Times, September 21, 2022. www.theepochtimes.com/paypal-shuts-down-free-speech-union-and-the-daily-sceptic-accounts_4744529.html
21. Hughes, Jason. “Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim Becomes New York Times’ Largest Single Shareholder.” The Wrap, January 14, 2015. www.thewrap.com/mexican-billionaire-carlos-slim-becomes-new-york-times-largest-single-shareholder
22. Rondon, Michael. “How America’s Oldest Magazines Are Modernizing (and Monetizing) Their Archives.” Folio, November 13, 2014. archive.foliomag.com/how-america-s-oldest-magazines-are-modernizing-and-monetizing-their-archives
23. Sarto, Dan. “The Brand Gallery Creates Show Package for Sinclair’s ‘Full Measure With Sharyl Attkisson’.” Animation World Network, October 30, 2015. awn.com/dev/vfxworld/the-brand-gallery-creates-show-package-for-sinclairs-full-measure-with-sharyl-attkisson
24. “GAP Client Edward Snowden Speaks To German Press: 1/26/14 Transcript.” ARD, [interview] whistleblower.org/press/gap-client-edward-snowden-speaks-german-press-12614-transcript
25. Hedges, Chris. “Chris Hedges: Digitally Disappeared; YouTube Has Deleted Six Years of My Show.” Pressenza, March 30, 2022. www.pressenza.com/2022/03/digitally-disappeared-youtube-has-deleted-six-years-of-my-show
26. Klarenberg, Kit. “Intelligence Operative Confirms British Gov’t Is Targeting The Grayzone.” The Grayzone, August 24, 2022. thegrayzone.com/2022/08/24/intelligence-british-govt-grayzone
27. Dore, Jimmy. “AP’s Colossal Joe Rogan Fact Check Fail.” Jimmy Dore Show, February 4, 2022. www.youtu.be/i0tc18x4C6c
28. Ho, Rodney. “CBS46’s Ben Swann Fired After Attempt To Bring Back Reality Check.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 29, 2018. www.ajc.com/blog/radiotvtalk/cbs46-ben-swann-fired-after-attempt-bring-back-reality-check/NeAW6LA1crpuxoGqmszkKP
    

Chapter 14: The New Enlightenment

1. To be clear, this was the first metal movable type printing press. There is evidence a ceramic movable-type printer was invented in China as early as 1090, but its success in printing books is unclear, as no printed materials have survived that were printed with ceramic movable type.
2. Norman, Jeremy. “Johan Carolus’s ‘Relation,’ the First Printed European Newspaper or Newsbook.” History of Information. www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=34
3. CERN. “A Short History of the Web.” home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web
4. McGreal, Chris. “Broken and Distrusting: Why Americans Are Pulling Away From the Daily News.” The Guardian, July 17, 2022. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/16/americans-avoid-news-reuters-survey
5. Stocking, Galen, et al. “Many Americans Get News on YouTube, Where News Organizations and Independent Producers Thrive Side by Side.” Pew Research, September 28, 2020. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/09/28/many-americans-get-news-on-youtube-where-news-organizations-and-independent-producers-thrive-side-by-side
6. If this idea seems unwieldy or unconventional, and I could write a whole chapter on it, consider it akin to voting. Each citizen gets one vote in each election, and each citizen gets enough coupons to slightly influence the coverage of the news.
7. “Social Media and News Fact Sheet.” September 20, 2022. Pew Research Center. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet
8. Shearer, Elisa. “More Than Eight-in-Ten Americans Get News From Digital Devices.” Pew Research, January 12, 2021. www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/12/more-than-eight-in-ten-americans-get-news-from-digital-devices
9. See Stocking, above.
10. See Shearer and Stocking, above.
11. Jones, Jeffrey. “Millennials, Gen X Clinging To Independent Party ID.” Gallup, August 18, 2022. news.gallup.com/poll/397241/millennials-gen-clinging-independent-party.aspx
12. See Stocking, above.
13. Greenwald, Glenn. “Homeland Security’s ‘Disinformation Board’ Is Even More Pernicious Than It Seems.” Substack, May 4, 2021. greenwald.substack.com/p/homeland-securitys-disinformation
14. Schmachtenberger, Daniel. “The War on Sensemaking.” Rebel Wisdom, August 19, 2019. youtu.be/7LqaotiGWjQ