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The Top 10 Hoaxes The Propaganda Press Peddled In 2024

Americans who have lived through Donald Trump’s political career are no strangers to legacy media disinformation. From the Russia collusion hoax to the “very fine people” Charlottesville lie, the litany of dishonest info ops from left-wing activists masquerading as journalists is too long to count.

And despite Americans’ waning trust in their ability to report news accurately and fairly, these Democrat Party yes-men show no signs of stopping.

Like years before it, 2024 saw no shortage of media hijinks. Whether it was their coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign or participation in Democrats’ war on the Supreme Court, America’s propaganda press maintained its ethically bankrupt reputation.

So, in no particular order, here are the biggest hoaxes and misinformation campaigns run by legacy media hacktivists this year.

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Red Flags: Recognizing the Signs of Political Manipulation

When you hear politicians speak, you’re often not hearing the full truth—you’re hearing what they want you to believe. Their speeches, press conferences, and interviews are carefully crafted to make you feel a certain way or see an issue from their perspective. But what happens when those messages twist facts, hide agendas, or manipulate emotions?

The good news is this: you can spot political manipulation if you know what to look for. Whether it’s an empty promise, a misleading statistic, or an attack meant to distract you, there are clear red flags you can identify to protect yourself from being misled. Here’s how.

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Pseudology – has the media industry perfected the art of lying?

TV has a physiological impact on the brain, deteriorating mind activity and potentially turning it into a “mashed potato” state, with some speculating it’s part of a larger project for control and domination.

Research suggests that prolonged exposure to television can be detrimental one’s life, with some studies indicating that children who watch three to four hours of non-educational TV daily will have seen almost 8,000 murders by the end of grade school.

At the time the documentary was made, Dr. Dmitry Csokas was a paediatrician and Director of Seattle Children’s Hospital.  His research found that exposing developing brains to rapid sequencing of television programmes, particularly baby digital video discs (“DVDs”), can precondition the mind to expect high levels of input, leading to shorter attention spans later in life.

Research has progressed to developing a mouse model to study the effects of overstimulation on the developing brain, exposing newborn mice to “mouse television” with lights flashing and sound for six hours a day, resulting in shorter attention spans, greater risk-taking, and poorer cognitive development.

The average age at which children began to watch television regularly has shifted from four years old in 1970 to four months old today, with the advent of baby DVDs and products aimed at young children.

The American Paediatrics Association recommends that children under the age of two should never be exposed to television, while France has made it illegal to produce programming geared towards children under the age of three.

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How the Information Factory Evolved

“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of,” Edward Bernays observed. “People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They have neither the time nor the inclination to search for facts that are not readily available to them.”

In our previous exploration, we exposed how institutional expertise often masks groupthink rather than knowledge. Now we pull back the curtain further to reveal something more fundamental: the sophisticated machinery that creates these experts, maintains their authority, and shapes not just what we think, but what we believe is possible to think. Understanding this machinery is essential for anyone seeking to navigate today’s information landscape.

These mechanisms, once obscure, now operate in plain sight. From pandemic policies to climate initiatives, from war propaganda to economic narratives, we’re witnessing unprecedented coordination between institutions, experts, and media – making this understanding more crucial than ever.

The Architecture of Compliance

In 1852, America imported more than just an education system from Prussia – it imported a blueprint for societal conditioning. The Prussian model, designed to produce subservient citizens and docile workers, remains our foundation. Its structure was explicitly created to foster obedience to state authority – standardized testing, age-based classes, rigid schedules governed by bells, and most crucially, the systematic shaping of minds to accept information from authorized sources without question. 

The Prussians understood that regulating how people learn shapes what they can conceive. By training children to sit quietly, follow instructions, and memorize official information, they created populations that would instinctively defer to institutional authority.

Horace Mann, who championed this system in America, was explicit about its purpose. “A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.”

His mission wasn’t education but standardization – transforming independent minds into submissive citizens.

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Listen To The People

We The People have spoken during this historic election.

Despite the constant media propaganda, it turns out the majority of Americans don’t like being told to accept a woke agenda

  • that prioritizes sex and the color of skin over hard work and merit;
    • where men can shower with female athletes and compete in women’s sports;
    • that an entire month is devoted to celebrate the sexual lives of a few;

while elitists instruct us

  • that America is evil and racist to the core;
    • that citizens must receive an experimental vaccine and wear a mask or lose their jobs; and
    • that protecting our own borders that is overrun by criminals, terrorists and military-age fighting men does not constitute a national security risk.

Many American families’ personal savings are depleted, and they live paycheck to paycheck, while maximizing credit card debt. The goal to buy a home is unobtainable, as interest rates and crippling inflation destroy the American dream.

Yet Washington’s foreign policy recklessly careens towards World War Three at a time when our military has been rated “weak” by the Heritage Foundation.

The news media reels in a state of shock that the majority of Americans resent being force fed this divisive Marxist agenda.

The hubris of the elite class, so wedded to the mainstream media, blinded them to obvious signals.

Once Elon Musk championed free speech on X, the signs of popular discontent became evident.

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Despite History of Fabrication, Press Uncritically Covers IDF-Provided Documents on Hamas

Earlier this month, the New York Times (10/12/24), Washington Post (10/12/24) and Wall Street Journal (10/12/24) each published front-page articles based on different sets of documents handed to them by the Israeli military.

Israel claims it seized all the documents—in the form of meeting minutes, letters and planning documents—in its ground invasion of Gaza, and that they reveal insights into Hamas’s operations prior to the October 7 attacks. The documents include alleged evidence of Hamas’s pre-10/7 coordination with Iran, plans to blow up Israeli skyscrapers, and even a scheme to use horse-drawn chariots in an attack from Gaza.

Documents received directly from intelligence agencies should always be treated with skepticism, and that’s especially true when their government has a well-documented history of blatant lying. Yet leading newspapers took these Israeli document dumps largely at face value, advancing the agenda of a genocidal rogue state.

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Journalists Find No Evidence of Israeli Claim That Hezbollah Money Stash Is Under Beirut Hospital

Journalists were given unrestricted access to the Sahel General Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs after the Israeli military claimed a Hezbollah money and gold stash was hidden in a bunker underneath the building.

A BBC journalist reporting from the hospital’s basement levels said the staff opened any doors and cabinets the reporters wanted to open. Journalists were also able to explore anywhere in the building on their own, and no evidence of a Hezbollah money stash was found.

Israel first made the claim in a video on Monday night, prompting the hospital to evacuate patients over fears they would be bombed. “We were here at the hospital working, treating patients, and then the video came out,” Dr. Omar Mneimne, who works at the hospital, told The National. “Obviously, we [have been] living in terror for the past 24 hours.”

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Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.

The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are “not intended to lead to war but are an attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.’” Users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning. But what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy – or at least he was until recently. Ravid is a former analyst with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200, and as recently as last year, was still a reservist with the Israeli Defense Forces group.

Unit 8200 is Israel’s largest and perhaps most controversial spying organization. It has been responsible for many high-profile espionage and terror operations, including the recent pager attack that injured thousands of Lebanese civilians. As this investigation will reveal, Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top U.S. media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country’s actions.

White House Insider

Ravid has quickly become one of the most influential individuals in the Capitol Hill press corps. In April, he won the prestigious White House Press Correspondents’ Award “for overall excellence in White House coverage”—one of the highest awards in American journalism. Judges were impressed by what they described as his “deep, almost intimate levels of sourcing in the U.S. and abroad” and picked out six articles as exemplary pieces of journalism.

Most of these stories consisted of simply printing anonymous White House or Israeli government sources, making them look good, and distancing President Biden from the horrors of the Israeli attack on Palestine. As such, there was functionally no difference between these and White House press releases. For example, one story the judges picked out was titled “Scoop: Biden tells Bibi 3-day fighting pause could help secure release of some hostages,” and presented the 46th President of the United States as a dedicated humanitarian hellbent on reducing suffering. Another described how “frustrated” Biden was becoming with Netanyahu and the Israeli government.

Protestors had called on reporters to snub the event in solidarity with their fallen counterparts in Gaza (which, at the time of writing, comes to at least 128 journalists). Not only was there no boycott of the event, but organizers gave their highest award to an Israeli intelligence official-turned-reporter who has earned a reputation as perhaps the most dutiful stenographer of power in Washington.

Ravid was personally presented with the award by President Biden, who embraced him like a brother. That a known (former) Israeli spy could hug Biden in such a manner speaks volumes about not only the intimate relationship between the United States and Israel but about the extent to which establishment media holds power to account.

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Drones Penetrate North Korean Air Defenses To Drop Propaganda Leaflets On Pyongyang

North Korea has accused South Korea of using drones to scatter propaganda leaflets over its capital, Pyongyang. The incident today comes after waves of excrement and trash-filled balloons launched by North Korea into the South, which started this summer, and during a period of overall worsening tensions on the peninsula overall.

Photos released by the North Korean state news agency KCNA are of fairly poor quality, but appear to show triangular objects, perhaps broadly similar in configuration to the Israeli Harop long-range one-way attack drone. Other views suggest not so much a delta-wing platform as a swept-winged one, reminiscent of the U.S.-made ScanEagle long-endurance, low-altitude drone. It could also be the case that a variety of different drones were used for the airdrop mission.

These drones, in turn, are shown seemingly releasing small objects. The news agency describes these objects as “scattered leaflets,” or as “bundles of leaflets.”

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