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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Actually, this is nothing new and it's hardly confined to social media. Establishment ideas have always sought to crush verifiable phenomena. I encountered it in the 80s, probably when Zuckerberg was just beginning to hatch his devious sociopathy. Science faculty beginning to teach impending climate catastrophe had "naughty-boy (or girl)" index fingers waved at them for "scaring their students." It was job-threat , aka "we'll steal your livelihood" censorship, similar to what faces honest journalists like you, Caitlin, and sites like the Grayzone and Consortium News. Sane historians were likewise threatened if they taught the truth about US aboriginal genocide. What we have now is the looming monster of Big Tech able to globalize such threats through algorithms. Folks who see this as "progress" are real brain-stunners for me

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WAHomeowners's avatar

Yes, but now it includes stopping true news about a presidential election.

We all know there is propaganda. But the swaying of a person's vote is truly heinous, as is "Brandon" and his heinous family.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Sure thing. But I rate deflecting the knowledge that we're facing extinction as a bit more serous chunk of criminality; that's not just propaganda, it's pure sociopathy. There are of course degrees of this phenomenon, but it all shares that characteristic of insouciance about committing criminal acts of censorship.

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notBob's avatar

Climate change is nothing but propaganda, absolutely everything you believe about climate change and CO2 is a lie, a propaganda campaign to convince you to live as a serf. basically the open air prison that is the modern world is using to much resources for the elites so they convince the prisoners to eat less and sleep in colder cells.

Jettison the propaganda and be free.

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WAHomeowners's avatar

Haha. If you can't see climate change is real, go look at some glacier before and after pics. I worked in Tetons in the 80s. There was a glacier named "frying pan" because it looked a skillet with an egg in it. Now, it looks like a guitar because it's melted so much. But, yes, just live your life.

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notBob's avatar

Im not saying climate doesn't change but seriously "Climate Crisis", "Climate Emergency" ? It has all the hallmarks of propaganda, climate change predictions have been wrong for 40 years.

The planet has been warming since the end of the last ice age, the sea level has been rising at 3mm per year since the end of the last ice age. Glaciers melting is not evidence of carbon based climate change.

Are you such a poor scientist that you think that your anecdotal observations support a worldwide series of chemical reactions. You are obviously one of the climate faithful.

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