The Vanity of Conspiracy Culture Could be the End of Liberty

By Jason Charles on 11/2/2017 (7 years 20 days ago)

The vast majority of people on the internet use it to keep up on sports stats, news, bills, bank accounts, and friends via their preferred social media platform, etc. For them the internet is a functional part of their life, these average users have no idea that the internet itself has become a battle ground of competing information and worldviews. The truth is, the war that is raging on the internet as we speak is shaping our society in ways most people can't even comprehend. There exists two very different narratives on the internet. On one-hand we have the corporate media and the official narratives and ideas as pushed by establishment institutions, news organizations, and official political bodies of the state. On the other hand we have a counter intelligence revolution that has...

The Alternative Media has become Less Credible than the Mainstream Press

By Jason Charles on 3/28/2016 (8 years 239 days ago)

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" The History of The Alternative MediaThe alternative media is now a market, and like all markets they are mined for dollars. Essentially with the advent of video cameras, and website blogs, everybody has become a potential journalist. This has sparked a wave of "citizen journalists" who spend all night filling internet blogs with credible and not-so-credible information at the click of a keyboard. At one time alternative media was somewhat truthful and credible, but it shifted towards speculation and...