Commentary
In the late 1940s, as geopolitical tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began to heat up, the CIA launched Operation Mockingbird, a large-scale program that used news media for one purpose only: to disseminate as much propaganda as possible.
According to award-winning author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird “owned” highly respected journalists at outlets like Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, to name just three “communications vehicles.”
Fast forward almost 80 years, and the game has rapidly evolved.
Today, intelligence officials use the most popular social media platforms to manipulate us and mold our minds. This brings us to TikTok, an app that I have written about extensively (see here and here). To call the app problematic is akin to calling its country of origin, China, problematic. In other words, an understatement of epic proportions….