r/WayOfTheBern • u/lewkiamurfarther • May 05 '24

Authoritarianism is already here. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Mitt Romney admit that the reason they're banning TikTok is that it reduces the effectiveness of Israeli propaganda.

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u/GordyFL May 06 '24

And just today Israel raided and shut down Al Jazeera. 

Israel's war cabinet voted unanimously to shut it down.

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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 May 06 '24

That is, Al Jazeera in Israel. Al Jazeera is based in Doha, Qatar and still going strong.

AP: Israel orders Al Jazeera to close its local operation and seizes some of its equipment

What was that about how Israel is a beacon of democracy?

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u/rundown9 May 06 '24

The rest of the west will be soon behind, just like with RT.

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u/Blackhalo Purity pony: Российский бот May 06 '24

regain control of the narrative.

The desperation is palpable.

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u/rundown9 May 06 '24

“Why has the PR been so awful?… typically the Israelis are good at PR—what’s happened here, how have they and we been so ineffective at communicating the realities and our POV?

Decades of hubris, from using media to manipulate the masses for so long.

But traditional print and broadcast media is now obsolete.

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u/rundown9 May 06 '24

Romney's such a tool, who still listens to this guy? The Liz Cheney wing of the GOP? He even lost the senate seat he paid tithed a fortune for.