Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2020-07 to 2026-03.
Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Various actors utilize psychological manipulation and selective information to divide populations and control the public narrative.
4 people · 4 episodes
Media companies utilize engineered division to keep the public engaged, which has become the standard mechanism for maintaining attention.
“So SCOPs are happening all throughout our lives and the media is more like and and one of the mottos we have here at this TV station. We haven't even launched a video yet and and we we're still filming and stuff but one of our mottos is what did the news tell you to feel today?”
Dr. Mayim Bialik · Jun 2026 · 4 episodes · 5.9M views on this topicInformation war is the highest level of conflict used to fragment populations and facilitate control.
“I study information more as you know information Wars the PHD level of warfare all the kinetics which I did for years in various Wars Iraq Afghanistan whatever that's certainly very important especially when you're in it but the PHD level of warfare is information war”
Jordan B Peterson · Mar 2023 · 2 episodes · 2.8M views on this topicShe believes that the hippie movement of the 1960s was not an organic cultural shift but a planned psychological operation aimed at controlling the minds of the masses.
“well, the hippie movement was not organic. It was not real. It was a psychological operation. That is a fact. Okay? That is not a crazy musing. It is simply a fact that they brought this and this really became a way to ultimately attack the Christian faith to divide the Christian faith.”
Candace Owens · Nov 2025 · 3 episodes · 6.2M views on this topicInformation dissemination is being used as a tool of warfare to pit people against each other and manipulate public perception through selective narratives.
“Um, information is a huge area of warfare. Um, the way information is disseminated, how it's disseminated, who it's disseminated to is pitting people against each other.”
Shawn Ryan Show · Feb 2026 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicEstablishment organizations and tech platforms exert ideological control and restrict information to serve specific interests.
3 people · 3 episodes
The military uses public affairs officers primarily to protect the command rather than to provide public transparency.
“I mean public affairs officers are are there to I'll keep my mouth on create yeah create uh AO is is there to protect the command yeah 100% nothing else yeah they're not there to shed transparency on anything they are there to protect the command let's recreate what the uh what the story is”
Shawn Ryan Show · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 5.0M views on this topicAmericans are trapped in information bubbles that limit their ability to make informed decisions and hold their leaders accountable.
“We don't see all of the information and then we make choices on partial information and that leads to bad choices.”
Shawn Ryan Show · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 739K views on this topicBig tech and media platforms exert ideological control by suppressing conservative views under the guise of combating misinformation.
“The Hunter Biden laptop story, that didn't come from just Twitter thinking it was misinformation. Who determines what is misinformation? In this case, it was the FBI.”
StevenCrowder · Nov 2023 · 2 episodes · 196K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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