How To Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time (Part 3)

OK, we’re going to wrap up the first three installments of our How to Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time series with (a) an overview of social networks and (b) some nifty “cutting-edge” strategies that you can use in combination therewith. As you may or may not remember at this point,… Read More How To Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time (Part 3)

Coming this Summer … Revenge of the Bride of Sophie’s Choice

All right, much as we hate to do it, we’re going to interrupt our series on Herding your Critics into Fake Communities and Wasting their Time to repost another sarcastic little piece our disobedient and disrespectful employee, CJ Hopkins, slipped into CounterPunch back on May 4. We weren’t going to run this one here at… Read More Coming this Summer … Revenge of the Bride of Sophie’s Choice

The Mainstream Media and Its Discontents

EDITOR’S NOTE: So, it appears our best efforts to locate and therapeutically restrain our itinerant employee, CJ Hopkins, have thus far been in vain. Because yesterday he published the following piece in CounterPunch, a widely-read left-wing magazine covering politics in a manner its editors describe as “muckraking with a radical attitude.” As our operatives were… Read More The Mainstream Media and Its Discontents

How to Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time (Part 2)

A long time ago, before there was the Internet, if you wanted to herd your potential critics into fake communities and waste their time, one of the only ways to do that was the church. Although a rather primitive system of control by today’s standards, the church (i.e. organized religion, of any variety) was, for… Read More How to Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time (Part 2)

How to Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time (Part 1)

OK, this is one of our absolute favorites here at the Consent Factory. For our money, in terms of distracting and rendering harmless any serious critics of your corporate-controlled global empire, this is definitely one you want to go with. Herding critics into fake communities and wasting their time is not only essential to maintaining… Read More How to Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time (Part 1)

A Communiqué from Deep Upriver, Somewhere Near the Czech Border

EDITORS NOTE: No sooner than had we warned you it would probably happen in our previous post, it appears our missing employee, CJ Hopkins, somehow gained access to our blog and posted the following, which, for legal reasons, we are going to let stand. The Corporate Media Echo Chamber (first published Counterpunch, April 25, 2016)… Read More A Communiqué from Deep Upriver, Somewhere Near the Czech Border

A special advisory to our readers regarding the questionable nature of the content on this blog

It has recently come to our attention here at Consent Factory headquarters that we may have a bit of “situation” developing in our Berlin offices. The long and short of it is, it appears an employee of one of our German subsidiaries has gained access to our official Consent Factory blog (i.e. this very blog), and… Read More A special advisory to our readers regarding the questionable nature of the content on this blog

How to Use the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People (Pt. 3)

We want to wrap up the first three installments of our How to Use the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People series with something really special. So we’re going to take a look at an opinion piece by Nobel Prize winning-economist Paul Krugman, which is an absolutely classic example of how to smear… Read More How to Use the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People (Pt. 3)