Category: Propaganda
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Web 2.0 Warfare from Gaza to Iran
Just a quick pointer to to my latest piece for Spinwatch, Web 2.0 Warfare from Gaza to Iran. It’s a story I’m slightly ambivalent in one sense, because there has clearly been important information coming out of Iran on Twitter. There have also been a lot of poorly sourced rumours, of which perhaps the most…
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Propaganda, the internet and the media: from CounterJihad to the Decent Left
Over at the Yorkshire Ranter, Alex Harrowell comments on the ongoing story of Glen Jenvey, who featured as an anti-terrorist 'expert' in a Sun story about threats, which it now appears he posted himself, against public figures on a Muslim web forum. It's a very good question just how many terrorism stories (especially ones that…