OPINION.
One should consider the amount of on-line opinion that is rampaging throughout the internet. Strangely, many of what we used to call ‘opinion leaders’ are now ‘influencers’ who, in many cases, have millions of followers. On a cursory glance, many of these on-line personalities are 20 something women, usually blond, pretty in the conventional sense, and wholly confident in their content about world affairs and geopolitics. The substance of their commentary is superficial, misinformed though highly controversial. On their social media accounts, an Israeli flag is placed prominently next to their anonymous user- name, like MAGA Girl or IDF Babe 241. These accounts are suspicious, particularly if they have hundreds of thousands of followers and attract thousands of ‘likes’ on their posts. One must ask, are people generally this gullible or stupid to follow this nonsense? The answer is rightly no, because as we have recently discovered, many of these accounts are computer generated or financed by political entities for the purposes of pushing a political agenda.
We know from reliable reports that the Israeli government is on a mission to control the narrative generally and across the board with the younger crowd. It is said that the Israeli government has offered $7000 to young influencers for a single pro-Israel post. This is absurd. Since this lucrative offer, I have seen posts on X with merely the Israeli flag posted 25 times with a smiley emoji at the end. An easy $7000 indeed.
What is more troubling is the recent American network CBS (Paramount) has been purchased by the multi-billionaire, Larry Ellison, (a strident Israel supporter and Zionist) who has appointed the fanatical Zionist journalist, Bari Weiss, to be editor and Chief of CBS News. I’ve read some of her work, and listened to her interviewed, and the woman is not the sharpest tool in the box. This mediocre journalist wasn’t hired based on her merits but her fanatical Zionist and pro-Israeli position to sway the narrative towards a more positive light for genocidal Israel.
As of this writing, a USA/Israel peace plan has been set in motion. This ‘plan’ is wholly one-sided and reeks of 20th century neo colonialism. Again, there is no two-state solution, the Palestinians receive no substantial concessions, and the US president is intent on turning Gaza into casino/resort for the elites around the world. Of course, any peace plan or cease fire is welcome, but at what price? Added to this absurdity, the UK war criminal, Tony Blair, is the person proposed to lead Gaza towards its new ‘modern look’ in the middle east!
The US support for Israel’s mass murder of the Palestinians over the last two years, makes them complicit in this genocide. To deny this is insane. Despite this obvious fact, young ‘influencers’ on social media, usually young and pretty, push the Israeli justifications for mass murder. Perhaps some of these accounts are real, but many if not most of them are computer generated. We’ve come to call them “bots.” What I imagine is rooms full of IDF women in front of computer screens, wearing camouflage and sitting on their fat asses, following and clicking on pro-Israel liars that continue to justify the on-going destruction of Gaza and its people. From a moral standpoint, I simply cannot accept that there are so many people online justifying and promoting this mass murder.
Propaganda is a necessary tool in war time. Some of the lies are blatant, many were covert in their style and delivery. All sides of a ‘conflict’ use misinformation to push their Cause. What is interesting today, and a product of social media, the propaganda is in plain sight. Wealthy Zionists are buying up the media, paying internet influencers ridiculous amounts of money to push their agenda. “We now own the media, and you will believe our narrative or be algorithm(ed) out of existence.” This is censorship on a grand scale.
The cornerstone of western democracy is the freedom to express one’s opinion in the public square. Currently the ‘public square’ is the internet. Those who own the public square can exclude certain opinions that ‘they’ deem a threat to their own. In Nazi Germany censorship took the form of book burning in the public square, now it is those who control the algorithm ensuring dissident voices are lost in the cybersphere.
To be fair, I don’t know where this censorship behavior by our governments and elites is headed. To flood the cybersphere with pro-mass slaughter, justifying a genocide of a people in plain sight, should cause many with a conscience to at least sit back, and ask why?
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