Conspiracy Otter Ep 10

 Conspiracy Otter vs Operation Mockingbird

If you go to Google and type in ‘Climate Change is”.... You’ll get different results that follow/prompt that term in the search bar depending on where you live and the particular things Google knows about your interests. That is not an accident, it is a design technique. What you should know is everything you do on-line is being watched, every action you take is carefully monitored and recorded. And if you are listening to this podcast….. They now know that YOU know. 

There is an interesting movie/documentary I recently watched called The Social Dilemma | Official Trailer | Netflix - that sheds some light on this, but also gets into the phycology, tactics and algorithms behind tracking your actions and keeping you on-line longer so they can gather more data and guide your choices if not lead you in specific directions you may not know where know were not your own ideas to go down until they prompted you. But let’s rewind for a moment and go back a little further in history from where we are now and talk about how we got here.  

Operation Mockingbird wiki page is an alleged large-scale program of the CIA that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It funded student and cultural organizations and magazines as front organizations. Both the United States and the Soviet Union use mass media to influence public opinion internationally. 

-Autocue and other companies provide news anchor scripts

-Bush makes propaganda legal https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/politics/under-bush-a-new-age-of-prepackaged-tv-news.html

-Bush admits news is pre packaged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bcohDkDHKw 

After the Watergate scandal in 1972–1974, Congress became concerned over possible presidential abuse of the CIA. This concern reached its height when reporter Seymour Hersh published an exposé of CIA domestic surveillance in 1975. Congress authorized a series of Congressional investigations into Agency activities from 1975 to 1976. A wide range of CIA operations were examined in these investigations, including CIA ties with journalists and numerous private voluntary organizations. The report covered CIA ties with both foreign and domestic news media.

For foreign news media, The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. For the U.S.-based media, Approximately 50 of the [Agency] assets are individual American journalists or employees of U.S. media organizations. Of these, fewer than half are "accredited" by U.S. media organizations ... The remaining individuals are non-accredited freelance contributors and media representatives abroad ... More than a dozen United States news organizations and commercial publishing houses formerly provided cover for CIA agents abroad. A few of these organizations were unaware that they provided this cover.

Flash forward to more recent times and new methods of communication… 

DARPA LifeLog wiki page LifeLog aimed to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in.