On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Heidi Lim from AI Resist List to discuss reframing AI, and the possible futures that both buck the current iteration of AI and avoid the binary of anti-tech vs. pro-tech. Heidi points out that the purpose…

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On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Ed from DeFlock. They discuss ALPRs – Automatic License Plate Readers, and the insidious way that they circumvent the 4th amendment – meant to protect against unlawful search. Ed also speaks about the massive network of…

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On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with media scholar Robin Andersen about her latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media’s Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. They discuss the distortions in Western media coverage and the lack of journalistic ethics and accountability among the…

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On this episode of the Project Censored show, co-host Mickey Huff talks with media scholar Bill Yousman about press censorship, establishment propaganda, and attacks on academic freedom around issues pertaining to the war on Gaza. Yousman recently edited a special issue of the journal Democratic Communiqué on “Freedom of Expression,…

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On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Leonardo Flores joins the show again to talk about the fallout from the double earthquake in Venezuela. Leo outlines some of the recent US media propaganda attempting to smear Venezuela when, in fact, it is the US paralyzing Venezuela’s disaster response through…

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On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield sit down Kels Menchaca, an organizer with the DFW Support Committee to talk about the Prairieland case. With combined sentences of 562 years, the defendants represent the latest intensification in the US government’s violent assault on free speech, freedom of…

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This week on the program, a special full show with Palestinian author, historian, and academic Dr. Ramzy Baroud about his latest book Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine. Dr. Baroud takes us through longue duree, a history that has not been amputated and distorted by colonial narrative. He explains the failings of corporate media, of political discourse, and the need for oppressed peoples to tell their own stories, without countering, without arguing the points of the oppressor. Because dignity cannot be divided. Freedom cannot be sectionalized.

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On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some of the news that did make the news but was wrong. They highlight the need for critical media literacy, especially when we’re confronted with something that pings our confirmation bias. They also dive into some history, the US at 250, the framing of our nationalistic ideals, the society of the spectacle, Idiocracy, and finding our way to solidarity.

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On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Mickey Huff sits down with public health researcher and journalist Lily Minh Wass to talk about the sycophancy machine. Lily outlines the subtle and disturbing quirks of AI’s large language models, amplifying our human desire to be agreed with, which supersedes the desire to be factual. Lily highlights our cognitive offloading onto AI, breaks down how these systems operate, and more.

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Meta’s censorship of LGBTQ voices brings together digital activists, legal experts, and LGBTQ communities to combat invisibilization. We discuss the problematic dependency on social media platforms, how this can spur the creation of alternative comms and organizing methods, digital legal frameworks in the EU vs the US, and more. Caspar…

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