By portraying the media as the victims of a “scam,” the actual PSYOP in which the media participated is erased, and their complicity is portrayed as mere “incompetence.”
This should be familiar to anyone who was paying attention during the “War on Terror.” Compare Fang’s framing (i.e., the media tricked by “a scam”) to the framing of the Iraqi-WMDs-PSYOP, which concluded with the same type of limited hangouts and “corrections” by the corporate press (after the PSYOP had achieved its objective, of course).
https://consentfactory.org/2023/01/30/how-to-memory-hole-a-psyop/
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