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Kotanraju Via Znanje's avatar

The term "media," should be replaced with: Pravda.

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Philalethes's avatar

Readers may be equally interested in knowing who is behind the mysterious MCC Brussels listed as the publisher of this report. Unlike the European institutions, however, MCC Brussels allows very little information transpire on where its money comes from or how it is used.

Interested readers may still find some tantalising info at https://corporateeurope.org/en/2024/10/orbans-oil-funded-thinktank-murky-transparency

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Kojo's avatar

Well researched and summarised. This is really important and people should take more notice.

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i = we x others²'s avatar

We have already moved past the phases of broadcasting and narrative construction, maintenance through fact-checking, and cancellation due to misinformation, toward the crystallization of ideas in collective minds by AI-driven engineering—self-dominant across all knowledge-seeking platforms used by the new generations.

Without a mirrored duplication of the system itself—one that operates through a negative feedback loop as an immunological activation against the initial system's positive feedback loop—nothing will prevent the collapse of democratic duality (politics and journalism) and the return to absolutism.

The transition from broadcasting to podcasting is a digital-world principle, but without power in the physical world of the demos, there will be no parity in the distribution of power.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Eu is a crash-course in mismanagement.

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Jazzme's avatar

so a governing body should not promote it's own existance.

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