12-27-18 The Information War

Daily Jot: The Information War - Bill Wilson -
 
Both overseas and in America, CNN is in almost every airport. When you want to look something up on the Internet, you "Google" it. If you want to keep in touch with family and friends, you "Facebook" it. If you want to show something to someone you might "Snapchat" or "Pinterest" it. If you want to make a brief statement or comment about something, you "Tweet" it. These and other brands of technology are social or communication platforms that leave the impression that they are open and honest forms of information exchange. We may use them as tools to get our news, communicate with family, even conduct business. But the information provided by these outlets is being proven to be deceptively biased.
 
Breitbart news has obtained an extraordinary hour-long video of a corporate meeting at Google just after the Trump election. In the video, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, VPs Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton, CFO Ruth Porat, and CEO Sundar Pichai express resolve that they will use the power of the company to undermine the Trump agenda and the populist movement worldwide. Brin says that the election of Trump was "deeply offensive," and it is "a very stressful time that conflicts with many of our values." He said that "apparently so many people don't share many of the values we have..there have always been people that apparently feel that way, but certainly confronting it firsthand, is pretty upsetting."
 
Brin compares Trump voters to "extremists," correlating their economic background with voters who back extremist movements. Senior VP for Global Affairs Kent Walker said of Trump voters: "fear, not just in the United States, but around the world is fueling concerns, xenophobia, hatred..." CEO Sundar Pichai said Google will develop machine learning and A.I. to combat "misinformation" shared by "low-information voters." After Breitbart published the story about the video and posted it, a Google spokesperson issued a statement saying, "Nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products. To the contrary, our products are built for everyone...to be a trustworthy source of information for everyone, without regard to political viewpoint."
 
Do you see the deceptive propaganda in all this? These communist coup-makers disparage the political beliefs and values of conservative Americans, plot ways to use their means to undermine the elected US government and then issue a statement that says they didn't do that. These are representatives of companies that control information. And by controlling information, they control thought. Can you see the significance of Christ's warning to his disciples in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you." Deception can be subtle. It can be outright. It can be so unbelievable that you have to suspend your disbelief to believe it. How many have family members or friends who take this progressive/communist drivel as fact, and are angry about it? This is the Information War, being waged on your mind. Don't buy into it.

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