Control of people’s perception and behaviour through media began a century ago

By Rhoda Wilson on December 29, 2024 •

Mechanisms of controlling people through media, films and music began with Thomas Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company in 1908.

Using Edison’s model, significant entities like the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations emerged, shaping knowledge about medicine through strategic grant-making, which contributed to a larger architecture of social control.

While the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird was shaping public perception through the media, Britain’s MI6 was developing methods to control consciousness itself. with the Tavistock Institute playing a significant role, some of which became the foundational algorithms of social media platforms such as Facebook.

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