If you've been reading my books and listening to my talks on the topic of

information manipulation, you've already been well positioned to sort through

the propaganda amid the events of recent years. If you're interested, you can

watch the TEDx talk and share it with your friends. Just search the internet

under my name, the word astroturf and TEDx or anything close to that and it

should come up. Again, the title, astroturf and manipulation of media

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podcasters app or go to Spotify.com slash podcasters to get started. One of my

favorite topics to explore and write about in recent years has been the

countless secretive but effective ways that propagandists for corporations and

for political interests have figured out how to sway public opinion. They've

figured out how to censor views, manipulate us into thinking that we are

outliers in opinion when we're not or that scientific facts aren't true. I've

foretold a lot of this in my books, Stonewall, The Smear and Slanted. And the

efforts by the propagandists have only expanded and grown more audacious since

then. While I did a little digging and today we're going to examine an

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