What The News Is Like In A Totalitarian Society
Have you ever wondered what the media is like in a totalitarian society? Is the news as rigidly controlled as we’ve been led to believe? Do the people in those societies have any idea of what is really going on in the world around them or are they force-fed some inane mental mush under the guise of the news?
Well, here’s a clue: A research project led by Harvard political scientist Gary King:
“…which took advantage of a trove of government emails, spreadsheets and work reports from a propaganda office in central China leaked online in 2014, concludes that an estimated 488 million fake posts a year ‘enables the government to actively control opinion without having to censor as much as they might otherwise.’”Click Here to Read the Rest of This Story
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