Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News

Add the government's inclination to monitor online activity and police so-called "Disinformation," and you have the makings of a restructuring of reality straight out of Orwell's 1984, where the Ministry of Truth polices speech and ensures that facts conform to whatever version of reality the government propagandists embrace.

You may not hear much about the government's role in producing, planting and peddling propaganda-driven fake news-often with the help of the corporate news media-because the powers-that-be don't want us skeptical of the government's message or its corporate accomplices in the mainstream media.

When you have social media giants colluding with the government in order to censor so-called disinformation, all the while the mainstream news media, which is supposed to act as a bulwark against government propaganda, has instead become the mouthpiece of the world's largest corporation, the Deep State has grown dangerously out-of-control.

Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein, in his expansive 1977 Rolling Stone piece "The CIA and the Media," reported on Operation Mockingbird, a CIA campaign started in the 1950s to plant intelligence reports among reporters at more than 25 major newspapers and wire agencies, who would then regurgitate them for a public oblivious to the fact that they were being fed government propaganda.

In its article, "How the American government is trying to control what you think," the Washington Post points out "Government agencies historically have made a habit of crossing the blurry line between informing the public and propagandizing."

The end goal of these mind-control campaigns-packaged in the guise of the greater good-is to see how far the American people will allow the government to go in re-shaping the country in the image of a totalitarian police state.

This unseen mechanism of society that manipulates us through fear into compliance is what American theorist Edward L. Bernays referred to as "An invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." 

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