It infuriates me to see in USA Today they’ve had a section “Fact Check” paid for by Facebook to repost false information tweets and posts, amplified by ambivalent headlines, and then lamely say, “but not really” somewhere until middle of the article. This is not fighting fake news.

Imagine writing all those words with all those fancy references and not mentioning once the glaringly obvious reality that fact-checking is also propaganda. Fact-checking isn’t broken or useless. It works just fine as a way to validate propaganda by pointing out that it’s not factually incorrect. You would have to be a comically credulous rube to not understand that, which means the author is either an idiot or a propagandist (or both).

Also, I think it’s worth pointing this out:

the Israel-Hamas war sparked the highest volume of global propaganda—emanating not just from Israel, Palestine and other Middle Eastern countries but also from Russia, China, and Iran

It is straight up journalistic malpractice to talk about propaganda about Israel-Palestine and not mention the US, the country with the largest media market in the world and the greatest motivation to sway public opinion about the issue. Literally a case-in-point of the article’s central thesis. The author could have displayed some actual integrity by pointing out that, yes, in fact, the western world also engages in propaganda, but no, let’s blame China for propaganda about Israel. Absolute baby-brain nonsense.