https://deceit.blog/tag/propaganda Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "propaganda". en Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:49 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/open-letter-to-america https://deceit.blog/essay/open-letter-to-america Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Explain. To MAGA, to the left, and to everyone in between, In May of 2016, two crowds of Americans stood on opposite sides of Travis Street in Houston, screaming at each other outside an Islamic center. One crowd came to stop the Islamification of Texas. The other came to defend their neighbors. Both protest… https://deceit.blog/essay/monster-we-built-manson-state-satanic-panic https://deceit.blog/essay/monster-we-built-manson-state-satanic-panic Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Charles Manson did not come from nowhere. He came from us. The popular memory of Charles Manson is convenient. A wild eyed demon crawled out of the California desert, whispered to hippies, and broke America's innocence in the summer of 1969. This narrative requires Manson to be an anomaly, a rupture… https://deceit.blog/essay/red-scare-lazy-and-losing https://deceit.blog/essay/red-scare-lazy-and-losing Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. American anti communist propaganda has one move. It has had this move since the 1950s, and it has not updated it. The move is: call the thing communism. The thing can be anything. Healthcare. Rent control. A children's educator posting photos of starving toddlers. A state assemblyman who caucuses wi… https://deceit.blog/essay/deepfake-propaganda-pipeline https://deceit.blog/essay/deepfake-propaganda-pipeline Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Six AI generated fakes went viral in 2026. They targeted different audiences, used different tools, and spread on different platforms. They all followed the same pipeline. The pipeline has stages. Each stage does specific work. Understanding the stages is more useful than memorizing the cases, becau… https://deceit.blog/essay/times-square-belongs-to-god https://deceit.blog/essay/times-square-belongs-to-god Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:01:28 GMT Explain. A Threads post made a property claim in the voice of a prophecy: TIMES SQUARE BELONGS TO GOD. At the time of capture, the post showed 116,000 views, 10,300 likes, and 1,900 comments. It was about twenty one hours old. Those numbers do not prove that the sentence is true. They prove that the sentence… https://deceit.blog/essay/architecture-of-denial https://deceit.blog/essay/architecture-of-denial Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The most accurate description of Gaza is not a viral slogan. It is a documented legal and political pattern. In September 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Council's Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israeli authorities and security forces had committed and were cont… https://deceit.blog/essay/religious-psychosis-mass-hysteria-government https://deceit.blog/essay/religious-psychosis-mass-hysteria-government Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. It is 11 PM on a Wednesday. The music has been playing for ninety minutes. The person next to you is on the floor, shaking, speaking in a language they do not know. The pastor says "let go" and the room says "let go" and your breathing has changed and you did not decide to change it. Your critical v… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-same-machinery https://deceit.blog/essay/the-same-machinery Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The question is not whether one side lies more. The research answers that. The question is whether the machinery of deception is partisan property, or whether the same shapes appear regardless of who runs them. The answer matters because a media literacy project that only names manipulation on one s…