Disinformation Nation
Mickey Huff from Project Censored reminds us that critical media literacy is an essential weapon of resistance.
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Disinformation is neither an accident nor excess; it is the normal functioning of late capitalism’s media apparatus. Our friend Mickey Huff, executive director of Project Censored, talks with Steve about the machinery of modern propaganda, algorithmic control, and billionaire-owned media ecosystems. Their conversation highlights key tensions of a base and superstructure in decay. Mickey lays out the historical continuity of media manipulation, and they bring up surveillance as a class weapon and electoral distraction as a dead end. (Mickey may be the first guest to mention Gilens and Page before Steve does.)
From Silicon Valley oligarchs and tech monopolies to the collapse of local journalism and the rise of curated realities, Steve and Mickey frame today’s information war as a struggle over who gets to shape “common sense.” Critical media literacy is not about neutral fact-checking but about exposing whose interests a narrative serves.
Mickey Huff is Executive Director of Project Censored, President of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation, and Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College
Find his full bio at https://www.projectcensored.org/mickey-huff/
@ProjectCensored on X
The art, science and structure of propaganda is perhaps the most important thing anyone who wants the red pill needs to understand. Understanding how cultural hegemony is engineered is the forst step towards breaking it.
Mickey Huff and the Project Censored team continue to be an essential resource for navigating today’s media landscape. Their work on critical media literacy and uncovering what the corporate press actively ignores is more vital than ever. Always appreciate the deep dives on Macro n Cheese.