Activist Ady Barkan tells top Republican to apologise over doctored video (Guardian)
There is simply no way for any of us to comprehend or adequately prepare for the amount of utterly depraved falsehood that is coming our way in the next two months. It is going to surpass anything that any of us has ever known, anything we can imagine right now. And please remember: almost all of it will be brought to you by some of the most powerful corporations in modern America: the media conglomerates, national and local, who are eagerly taking Trump money to disseminate his arrant, death-dealing lies in his ads; the social networks – Facebook, Google, YouTube, etc – who also gobble up the Trump dollar or else rake in profits by “monetizing” the outpourings of the deranged extremists and organized fascist networks spreading Trumpist filth; the print media, such as the NYT, who continue to pretend we are in some fairly ordinary “horse race” political situation, while slavishly adhering to their cult of “both siderism,” which paints a completely false picture of reality when one “side” is actively, openly, gleefully trying to destroy American democracy and literally killing thousands of Americans every week with its deliberate, documented policy of allowing the pandemic to spread. Remember who is actually feeding you these lies, the actual venues through which Trump and his ghastly retinue are poisoning society and destroying our children’s future.
And why are these respectable institutions doing this? They just want the money. They don’t care that the Trumpists are lying. They just want the money. They don’t care that Trump is sending rightwing terrorists into America’s streets to kill people and intimidate citizens. They just want the money. They don’t care if democracy crumbles, if the rule of law collapses, if millions are made homeless, if hundreds of thousands die from Trump’s spread of Covid, if Trump cancels the election or stages a violent coup to stay in power, if the planet itself burns up and dies. They just want the money. Facebook, Google, YouTube, Fox News, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, every network or paper taking money to spread Trump’s lies, or treating these lies as if they were anything other than the steaming, reeking filth they are … they don’t care. They just want the money. If you build a system where money is God, where the common good is mocked and scorned, this is where you end up: with a dope-addled, spray-tanned pervert literally sacrificing your children to Moloch.