Government officials use dehumanizing rhetoric to label individuals as domestic terrorists, which serves to suppress public dissent and ignore objective reality.

“I remember thinking it reminded me of um the Orwell 1984 book where something along the lines I said and their last their final act was to ask us to not believe our eyes and ears. I don't think I'd ever seen something so brazen in terms of a lack of respect for the dead”

Government officials use disinformation and slander to manipulate public perception of incidents like federal killings, aiming to overwrite reality and bypass critical observation.

“So, I mean, as horrible as these deaths are, the reaction to them is is just as damning, I would say, because if you're going to lie about things like this once, you'll lie about things like this over and over again. And it reveals that there are no restraints on you.”

Foreign actors and domestic propaganda outlets are increasingly using realistic AI-generated media to manipulate public opinion and spread misinformation about war, which requires proactive demonetiza

“The AI war footage thing is is only going to get worse as AI gets more realistic. And I can tell you that um the one good thing X did recently was they said, "If you share AI war footage, or at least if you upload AI war footage, you get demonetized."”

The British government's attempt to use a video game character to manipulate public opinion on immigration was an ineffective and dishonest act of state control that backfired.

“And the British government have got nothing left to offer. They say that sentimentality is unearned emotion. And certainly the British government are running on unearned power. And that's why they make blunders and mistakes like this. Making video games to reach out to the kids”

US government war propaganda remains highly effective and unchanged, successfully convincing the public to support new conflicts despite past deceptions.

“You just watch how easy it again it is to not just sell new wars even when Americans say they're sick of these words they don't want regime change but using exactly the same scripts”