STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Fact-checking is one part of the campaign to control what you see online, and therefore what you think and how you perceive reality
- Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson explains how virtually everything you see and hear online has been co-opted, or taken over to serve a greater agenda
- Instead of real journalists and reporters, the media is infiltrated with propagandists who dictate whatâs âfake newsâ and whatâs not
- The public is being manipulated to want their information censored by third-party âfactâ-checkers, which were introduced as a tool to confuse and control the public further
- âConspiracy theoryâ, âdebunkedâ, âquackeryâ and âantivaccineâ are examples of terms that are being used as propaganda tools; if you hear them, it should make you dig deeper for the truth
- Those who rely solely on the internet for their information are at serious risk of being controlled; you can fight back by doing your own research, trusting your cognitive dissonance and using your common sense
Prior to 2015 or 2016, you could still read what you wanted online without much interference. This has since changed, as propagandists have infiltrated the media and, along with other major players, like Big Tech and government, set out to control information. Fact-checking â a once-obscure term thatâs since gone mainstream â is one part of the campaign to control what you see online, and therefore what you think and how you perceive reality â but itâs all a ruse.
Speaking with Jan Jekielek, The Epoch Times senior editor and host of the show âAmerican Thought Leaders,â investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson explains how virtually everything you see and hear online has been co-opted, or taken over to serve a greater agenda:1
âOne has to understand that nearly every mode of information has been co-opted, if it can be co-opted by some group. Fact checks are no different either, theyâve been coopted in many instances or created for the purpose of distributing narratives and propaganda.