Fake Grassroots

How Publicists Manipulate Journalists to Control Wikipedia

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Book extract from "Trust Me I'm Lying", written by Ryan Holiday: "I remember sitting on the couch at Tucker Max's house one January a few years ago when something occurred to me about his then on-and-off-again bestseller. "Hey Tucker, did you notice your book made the New York Times list in 2006, 2007, and 2008?" (Meaning the book had appeared on the list at least once in all three years, not continuously.) So I typed it up, sourced it, and added it to Wikipedia, delineating each year.* Not long after I posted it, a journalist cribbed my "research" and did us the big favor of having poor reading comprehension. He wrote: "Tucker Max's book has spent over 3 years on the New York Times Bestseller List." Then we took this and doubled up our citation on Wikipedia to use this new, more generous interpretation."

Publicists and lobby groups organize their manipulation of Wikipedia very carefully, using it to pump information up the chain, helped along by lazy, willing and/or corrupt journalists.

Book extract from "Trust Me I'm Lying", written by Ryan Holiday: Wikipedia acts as a certifier of basic information for many people, including reporters. Even a subtle influence over the way that Wikipedia frames an issue—whether criminal charges, a controversial campaign, a lawsuit, or even a critical reception—can have a major impact on the way bloggers write about it. It is the difference between "So-and-so released their second album in 2011" and "So-and-so's first album was followed by the multiplatinum and critically lauded hit ..." You change the descriptors on Wikipedia and reporters and readers change their descriptors down the road. A complete overhaul of one high-profile starlet's Wikipedia page was once followed less than a week later by a six-page spread in a big tabloid that so obviously used our positive and flattering language from Wikipedia that I was almost scared it would be its own scandal. It's why you have to control your page. Or you risk putting yourself in the awkward position a friend found himself in when profiled by a reporter at a national newspaper, who asked: "So, according to Wikipedia you're a failed screenwriter. Is that true?"
"On occasion I have instructed a client to say something in an interview, knowing that once it is covered we can insert it into Wikipedia, and it will become part of the standard media narrative about them. We seek out interviews in order to advance certain "facts," and then we make them doubly real by citing them on Wikipedia."

These extracts are from publicist Ryan Holiday’s book titled ‘Trust Me I’m Lying‘.

Canadian Journalist Quits CBC After Admitting the Network Pumps Out Far Left Propaganda and Ignores Real Issues

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"Ex-CBC journalist Tara Henley declares on Substack that she quit her job due to the public broadcaster's shifting politics", by Charlie Smith. A Toronto journalist with deep roots in Vancouver has written an incendiary post explaining why she resigned from the public broadcaster. Tara Henley opened her piece on the Substack platform by revealing that she's been hearing complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked for several years. "People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported," she wrote. "Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive. Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as 'brainstorm' and “lame.' " The answer, according to her, is that working at CBC now "is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others". "It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others," she added. Henley suggested that the focus on racial issues is resulting in less scrutiny of other issues that affect large numbers of people, such as the housing crisis, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, accumulation of wealth by billionaires and power by bureaucrats, and the rising total of overdose deaths. She linked the CBC's current approach to "a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal division". "It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left in any newsroom, occasionally causing strain in story meetings with my views on issues like the housing crisis," Henley wrote. "I am now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics. This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not change."

She says: “In a short period of time, the CBC went from being a trusted source of news to churning out clickbait that reads like a parody of the student press.”

She says working at the CBC is to “abandon journalistic integrity” and to “sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda”.

You can read her full post here: https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely

Google admits goal of “steering” conservative movement away from Nationalism and Nativism

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Adam Kovacevich, Google’s head of U.S. public policy, admitted in 2019 that the Google Corporation sponsors the annual CPAC conservative conference in order to:

❌ “steer conservatives and Republicans” away from Nationalism, and away from “Nativist” ideas aka Immigration Restriction and border control.

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❗️ Google is a political group of globalist leftist activists, it is in control of much of the world’s access to information, and they have no problem censoring and manipulating to achieve their goals — a very dangerous combination.

YouTube Promotes Porn More Than Anti-Porn

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An anon who makes anti-porn YouTube videos made a pro-porn video as an experiment with a porn logo thumbnail. YouTube’s system monetized it immediately unlike his other demonetized videos, and began promoting it all over the place.

The regime wants you tired, sick, weak, and distracted.

EXPOSED: ‘Woke’ media outlet revealed to be UK government propaganda wing

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“Launched earlier this year [2019], the network features videos with titles such as ‘A trillion ton iceberg has broken off Antarctica’ and ‘Millions of pangolins are hunted each year’. Alongside them are other videos with titles such as ‘It’s time to hold extremism to account for terrorism, not Islam’. This video went viral, being viewed 1.7 million times.”

‘This Is Woke’: The media outfit that’s actually a UK counter-terror programme
The glitzy, youthful ‘news company’ warns about fake news – but is part of the Home Office’s Prevent strategy.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-woke-media-outfit-thats-actually-uk-counterterror-programme

Have you ever wondered why our MODERN ART is so crass and disgusting?

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Yes it’s partly because our civilisation has been collapsing for some time and we have all been driven to madness, but also because the CIA created a global network of art publications and culture organisations to push this garbage on us during the Cold War.

There was the space race, and there was also the art race:

Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
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