{"id":37731,"date":"2021-07-19T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=37731"},"modified":"2021-07-19T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:39:49","slug":"conflicts-of-interest-lazy-propaganda-from-the-corporate-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/19\/conflicts-of-interest-lazy-propaganda-from-the-corporate-press\/","title":{"rendered":"<I>Conflicts of Interest<\/I>: Lazy Propaganda from the Corporate Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On COI #137, Kyle and Will break down the new US Marine deployment to guard the American Embassy in Haiti, which comes amid instability after the assassination of the country&#8217;s leader. While President Biden insists there will be no larger stabilization mission, that&#8217;s not so clear, as the Marine contingent comes after the White House had already ruled out sending any troops.<\/p>\n<p>Governments worldwide are stepping up their censorship demands on social media platforms, with Twitter seeing a record\u00a0surge in such requests in 2020. The Biden administration also recently admitted to pressuring Facebook to scrub so-called vaccine disinformation from the site,\u00a0literally &#8220;flagging problematic posts&#8221; for deletion.<\/p>\n<p>As anti-government protests erupt in Cuba, the corporate media has spread confusion with several erroneously captioned photos. One image from the Associated Press labeled a large pro-government demonstration as an opposition rally, an error quickly replicated by countless other news outlets. CNN, meanwhile, falsely portrayed a protest in Miami, Florida as taking place in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXsiX0NOIXbKLd8kNPbKjjQ\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/kyle\/coi-137-lazy-propaganda-from-the-corporate-press\/\">audio only.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J8QeDmjlTLc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On COI #137, Kyle and Will break down the new US Marine deployment to guard the American Embassy in Haiti, which comes amid instability after the assassination of the country&#8217;s leader. While President Biden insists there will be no larger stabilization mission, that&#8217;s not so clear, as the Marine contingent comes after the White House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-37731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37732,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37731\/revisions\/37732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37731"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}