Who Guards NewsGuard? Academics asleep on the job
Recently, I was reading ‘an important paper’ recommended by a philosopher who specialises in epistemology (the study of how we know what we think...
Democracy Lost: Propaganda, Character Assassination and the Campaign Against Professor David Miller
On October 1st 2021, the University of Bristol decided to buckle in the face of a near 3 year-long militant Zionist campaign and fire Professor...
Deception through omission: ‘The War on the OPCW’
An academic paper from the University of New South Wales in Australia describes four incidents where a virtual firehose of Russian propaganda was directed...
Whose Disinformation Is It Anyway? BBC vs Critical Academics
BBC Radio recently broadcast a File on 4 programme called Ukraine: The Disinformation War, promoted with the strapline ‘British academics accused of sharing Russian...
Propaganda in Academia
Introduction
What does propaganda have to do with academic research and teaching? Citizens can reasonably expect the academic community to generate scholarly understanding and public...
Academic Complicity in the Censorship Industry: The Case of Kate Starbird
The U.S. Congress has recently heard a report from the House Judiciary Committee which presents disturbing allegations about U.S. Government involvement in surveillance and...
