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Miguel Afonso CaetanoAirbnb is pure crap, evidence 9325467...:"Airbnb has apologised to a woman after an apartment host falsely claimed she had caused thousands of pounds’ worth of damage and used images she says were digitally manipulated to back up his allegations.The London-based academic was refunded almost £4,300, and an internal review of how the case was dealt with has been launched at the short-term accommodation rental company.The incident highlights how cheap and easily available artificial intelligence software is now being used to manipulate images to give false evidence of what has happened in consumer complaints, according to one security expert."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/02/airbnb-guest-damage-claim-refund-photos" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/02/airbnb-guest-damage-claim-refund-photos</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Airbnb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Airbnb</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

M.BlakumenIn a bizarre twist, Hamas showcases Israeli hostages and emaciated Palestinian babies like a twisted PR stunt. Is this a humanitarian message or just more manipulation? Let's focus on real solutions instead of propaganda. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConflictNarratives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConflictNarratives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> Source: <a href="https://theinformer.uk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theinformer.uk</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The UK government is secretly paying foreign YouTube stars to publish “propaganda” videos, Declassified can reveal.A three-year investigation has found that online influencers are made to sign legal contracts banning them from disclosing the government’s involvement.Whitehall officials give “feedback” on each video before the influencers are allowed to publish them. The work is coordinated by a London-based media agency, Zinc Network Ltd, on behalf of the Foreign Office in a deal worth nearly £10m of public money. Co-founded by a former Conservative Party spin doctor, the company has won lucrative contracts from the UK, US and Australian governments, becoming a major player in Western influence operations.Zinc has previously been exposed for secretly setting up Muslim news platforms on Facebook as part of the government’s counter-extremism Prevent strategy.But the company’s foreign influence tactics can now be exposed thanks to whistleblowers, leaked documents, Freedom of Information disclosures and analysis of dozens of LinkedIn profiles."<a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-government-secretly-paid-foreign-youtube-stars-for-propaganda/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-government-secretly-paid-foreign-youtube-stars-for-propaganda/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disinformation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Influencers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Influencers</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The uncomfortable truth is that knowledge alone won't protect you. Having higher levels of education can actually make you more vulnerable to cognitive traps like confirmation bias and overconfidence. The best way to defend yourself against today’s disinformation campaigns is not intelligence. It’s discipline.To build resilience, you have to learn to track your own emotional responses. If something makes you feel a surge of fear, anger, or moral righteousness, pause and ask yourself: Who benefits from me feeling this way? What evidence am I actually reacting to? This is especially important when the disinformation sounds too good to be true, confirms something that you want to believe, or tells a story that you want to hear.True resistance to manipulation doesn’t come from knowing facts, but recognizing when your mind is being hijacked — and knowing what to do to regain control."<a href="https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-deception" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-deception</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disinformation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaLiteracy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialPsychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialPsychology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Deception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Deception</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a>

KalvinHow does propaganda look like: "M country is smaller than U country." Me: "Are they minimizing our country's sovereignty and dignity? 🤔 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalPride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalPride</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sovereignty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TruthMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TruthMatters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patriotism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuestionEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QuestionEverything</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationFirst</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliticalAwareness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Freedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Identity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalThinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaLiteracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalDignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalDignity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Awareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Awareness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TruthSeeker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TruthSeeker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MindControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MindControl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InformationWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InformationWar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandStrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandStrong</a>

Brewminate📺 Manufactured outrage isn’t an accident.It’s a political tool — sharpened, marketed, and recycled.Culture wars keep us fighting each other instead of fighting back.<a href="https://brewminate.com/manufactured-outrage-how-political-elites-use-culture-wars-to-distract/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://brewminate.com/manufactured-outrage-how-political-elites-use-culture-wars-to-distract/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brewminate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Brewminate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CultureWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CultureWars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerAndControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerAndControl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClassPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassPolitics</a>

NeuralOn Friday, June 6 at 19:00 I’ll be the guest of “Generation Postdigital" together with the legendary <a href="https://olia.geocities.institute/@GIFmodel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@GIFmodel</a> at the <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/@stadtbibliothekstuttgart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@stadtbibliothekstuttgart</a> am Mailänder Platz to talk about “Tactical Publishing - How to publish in the 21st Century?” <a href="https://lnkd.in/g3znXUa4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/g3znXUa4</a>. Thank you very much to Olia for the invitation.<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/tacticalpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tacticalpublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/digitalpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalpublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/publishinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publishinghistory</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/indiepublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiepublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/independentpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#independentpublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/mediaart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mediaart</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/newmediaart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newmediaart</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/netart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#netart</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/internetart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internetart</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/artsciencetechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artsciencetechnology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/creativecodeart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creativecodeart</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/creativetechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creativetechnology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/digitalarchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalarchives</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/mediahistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mediahistory</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/mediaarchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mediaarchaeology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/retrofuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrofuture</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/artistbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artistbook</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/experimentalpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#experimentalpublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/electronicliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#electronicliterature</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/zines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zines</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/digitalwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalwriting</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/mediatheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mediatheory</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/mediastudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mediastudies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/digitalhumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalhumanities</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/posttruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#posttruth</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/mediamanipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mediamanipulation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/hacktivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hacktivism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/postdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postdigital</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/postdigitalprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postdigitalprint</a>

Agustin V. Startari👋 Hello Humanities Commons!I’m Agustín V. Startari — independent scholar, author, and linguist from Uruguay, now based in the Bahamas. My research bridges power, language, history, and speculative physics, with a strong focus on ideological discourse and its structures.📚 Recent works include: • Grammars of Power — how syntactic structures legitimize authority • Gregory X — institutional reform and unity in the 13th-century Church • The Future as Origin — retrocausality and internal expansion in cosmology • Essential Heresies — on dissent in early Christianity • Propaganda Machinery: National Socialism — a critical analysis of Nazi discourse strategies (1920–1933)🔍 I publish in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. 🌐 More at agustinvstartari.com<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/PropagandaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PropagandaStudies</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/FascismAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FascismAnalysis</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DiscoursePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiscoursePower</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HistoricalNarratives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoricalNarratives</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/IdeologicalMechanisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IdeologicalMechanisms</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/PoliticalMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliticalMythology</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AgustinVStartari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgustinVStartari</a>

oatmeal[cont’d] Quoting Noa Limona on Netanyahu’s gaslighting of the Israeli public: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Israel</a>'s "poison machine" has expanded from domestic gaslighting to foreign policy distortion. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Netanyahu</a> Jr's attack on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Macron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macron</a> exposes a calculated system that labels democratic leaders supporting Palestinian rights as "enemies" while embracing far-right populists worldwide. This propaganda mechanism has successfully conditioned even opposition voices to fear being labeled "leftist" (now synonymous with "traitor"). The result? A warped reality where human rights advocacy equals betrayal, empathy equals <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a>, and "peace" has become taboo. The antidote requires rejecting this entire toxic framework, not just its symptoms.[…] Netanyahu Jr.'s statement was what the linguistic philosopher John Austin called a "speech act," not a statement that can be said to be true or false but an expression that constitutes an action in the world. In this case, the act constituted labeling Macron – a leader of a democratic country who expressed his recognition of a Palestinian state – as an enemy.[…] The antidote to poison cannot be based on accepting the toxic machinery and only partially rejecting its symptoms. Our obligation is to oppose the entire propaganda apparatus that has dulled our senses, clouded our simple reasoning, and eroded the ethical criteria that should guide us.<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-04-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-netanyahu-poison-machine-turns-to-foreign-policy/00000196-3049-dc5b-af96-79fdd4860000" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-04-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-netanyahu-poison-machine-turns-to-foreign-policy/00000196-3049-dc5b-af96-79fdd4860000</a> or <a href="https://archive.is/pwYx5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.is/pwYx5</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@palestine</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@israel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraelPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IsraelPolitics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#palestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThePoisonMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThePoisonMachine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OatmealQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OatmealQuotes</a>* Edit: typos, article is in English not Hebrew

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