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| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Corporate media | The corporate media refers to itself as 'mainstream' in an effort to marginalize so-called "alternative" media. While some instances (e.g. BBC) are not strictly commercial, all the corporate media is hierarchically structured, so a very small number of editors can censor or modify its output. |
| Defence Online Engagement Strategy | |
| Distraction | The creation of attention-grabbing events to draw attention away from matters of importance |
| Document:Is Fukushima's nuclear nightmare over? Don’t count on it | Update on the developing Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster and a good illustration of BBC use of "Experts" to present and give credibility to outrageous falsehoods in support of the "nothing to see here" propaganda of the nuclear industry. |
| Document:Leaked Karl Rove email | |
| Document:Ukrainian soldiers' organs traded | An apparent hoax about hacked correspondence between Donbass Battalion commander, Yulia Tymoshenko's lawyer and a German medical practitioner evidencing a burgeoning trade in the organs of Ukrainian soldiers |
| Dodgy Dossier | A concoction of lies which successfully eased the UK public's reluctance to enter the Iraq War - notwithstanding its exposure as lied by David Kelly. |
| Doublespeak | |
| EXPOSE Network | A proposed multi-million pound consortium to "counter disinformation". Exposed in the 7th tranche of documents in the Integrity Initiative leak. The UK government declined to fund it. |
| East StratCom Task Force | The EU's cold warriors 2.0 |
| Epik data breach | Data breach in September 2021. Is Anonymous doing the job of the FBI for them because the facts aren't adding up. |
| File:Carter-Ruck Syria Report.pdf | A text-book example of the how and why of demonising one's enemies. A widely reported shock-horror document is 'leaked' just prior to a conference, the outcome of which is regarded as crucial to Western global policy interests. |
| File:Nato-master-narrative-2008.pdf | |
| File:Report on Terrorism 2014.pdf | A summary of global "terrorism" in 2014. |
| Hasbara/History | |
| Hit piece | something published with the intent to sway public opinion by presenting false information in a way that appears objective and honest. |
| IPCC Sixth Assessment Report | Climate catastrophe report published in August 2021. |
| Information Department | A successor to the Overseas Information Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Information Operation | |
| Institute for Statecraft/Activities | |
| Islamic Media Unit | Responsible for managing news about British foreign policy in the UK |
| Islamic News/Jehad is Crap! | |
| James Bond | Hero image character used to promote the intelligence agencies |
| London Radio Service | A semi covert propaganda run by the British government's Central Office of Information for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Media manipulation | A series of techniques in which the CCM create an image or argument that favors their particular interests. It can be actual fakery and is a form of propaganda. |
| Meme | On the internet, an image plus accompanying text used to make a serious point, often humourously. |
| Mighty Wurlitzer | |
| NATO/Propaganda | NATO's propaganda has been systematic and organised. Its Operation Gladio staged false flag attacks intended to subvert the democratic process. In recent years it has been promoting Russophobia and talking of a Cold War 2.0. |
| Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ | A spectacular and effective stunt in a $10 million propaganda campaign orchestrated by the Kuwaiti government, which may well have swung the balance in what was a close congressional vote on the use of the US military against the Iraqi invasion. |
| News Department | Responsible for managing news about British foreign policy in the UK |
| NewsGuard | A tech company which is teaming up with Microsoft as regards "fake news" |
| Nieuwsuur | A state-funded TV program that replaced several award-winning current affairs programs that were "too biased"...meaning not following the official narrative. |
| Omnibus magazine | |
| Operation Mockingbird | Operation Mockingbird is a CIA covert operation that began in the 1950s and is a continuing manipulation and control of the media by the CIA. |
| Operation Nicole | A tabletop exercise "based on a realistic counter terrorism incident... specifically developed for Muslim communities". |
| Overseas News Agency | |
| Plastic word | Plastic words, with minimal substantive meaning and which avoid clear definition, are effective as tools of misdirection, particularly on the hypnotised |
| Presstitute | Journalists who give biased and predetermined views in favour of the government and corporations. |
| Project Syndicate | Syndicate to spread "free" op-eds subjects in corporate media to influence what people think. But 'he who pays the piper calls the tune' - in this case mostly George Soros and Bill Gates. |
| Psyop | |
| Public Diplomacy Department | A successor to the Information Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Public Diplomacy Group | |
| Public Diplomacy Policy Department | The predecessor of the UK propagandist Public Diplomacy Board. |
| Radio Free Europe | |
| Rebranding Britain | A propaganda initiative started by the Conservative government and picked up by New Labour along with the Foreign Policy Centre. |
| Reframing Russia | An IfS/II discussed project about "The RT Challenge" which was publicly launched in 2019, not under the II/IfS name. |
| Research Information and Communications Unit | |
| Rogue state | |
| Russia/Propaganda | The USSR was active rather than subtle about propaganda. |
| Salon.com | "Progressive" website producing enemy images, owned by the same man who owns "fact checker" Snopes |
