politics VOA to be run by Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and Trump CEO pick Michael Pack, so two top VOA directors just quit Xeni Jardin

podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

politics Kim Jong Un and Brett Kavanaugh star in Trump reelection video Xeni Jardin

politics Canadian "protesters" at Huawei extradition hearing say they were tricked, thought they were in a music video Cory Doctorow

politics Trump sets presidential record for most tweets in one day, all 123 of them stupid Xeni Jardin

b-side Facebook paid Teen Vogue to run a fake article praising Facebook for "helping ensure the integrity of the 2020 election" Mark Frauenfelder

protest Nicaragua continues to be on its bullshit Seamus Bellamy

memes Revisiting Operation Mindfuck David Pescovitz

politics Warren trolls Facebook by running campaign ads that lie about Mark Zuckerberg Mark Frauenfelder

fake news "Troll Factory" games teaches you how fake news is spread – and why Mark Frauenfelder

propaganda Scandals hit US Agency for Global Media which runs VOA, Radio Martí, TV Martí Xeni Jardin

picks Art pranksters upload Mark Zuckerberg deepfake to Instagram to test Facebook's non-removal policy Xeni Jardin

late stage capitalism What it's like to watch someone you love fall down the Fox News rabbit-hole Cory Doctorow

Business Alibaba developed Chinese Communist Party propaganda app that became China Apple Store hit: Report Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Gorgeous retro Star Wars propaganda posters Cory Doctorow

social media Algorithmic anti-semitism and computational propaganda David Pescovitz

propaganda Anonymous Trump official: Don't worry, America, us unelected nameless GOP hacks have quietly executed a coup Rob Beschizza

memes The Biology of Disinformation: Interview with Rushkoff, Pescovitz, and Dunagan David Pescovitz

trump This is the "movie trailer" that Trump played for Kim Jong-Un David Pescovitz

fake news The future of computational propaganda Mark Frauenfelder