You Are Lied to Every Day

We are constantly being lied to by people online. These people are not your friends. Do not trust someone just because they claim to belong to your political "team". The lying has become endemic. By design it has caused us to hate, fear, and fragment.

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▼Citations for this video▼
►How many adults use the internet in 1996 and 2021:
►Anger Online Study:
►Lies Spread Faster Than Truth Study:
►Why your brain loves feeling outraged:
►Kate Moss on working in the Calvin Klein Ad:
►Calvin Klein Pride Month Campaign:
►Frequency Illusion:
►How covid statistics can mislead:
►Bogus article that lies with statistics about England covid deaths:
►Official England data citied in bogus article:
►Bogus article about everyone in Germany and the UK getting AIDS by Jan. 2021:
►Bogus article that incorrectly compares pre-covid and post-covid athlete deaths:
►A doctor explaining why the article is bad and wrong:
►Pre-covid article, a student athelete dies from cardiac arrest every 3 days:
►Sudden Cardiac Death in the Athlete study from 2012:
►Child & Infant mortality of 2017 (first 4 columns of the graph):
►The media - not the science - got global cooling wrong:
►Fake Time Magazine Cover, & scientific consensus of warming in the 70s:
►Sky News bogus outrage story about 1 tweet with 55 likes:
►Articles about men becoming more feminine:
►How we fixed the ozone hole:
►Y2K was a problem, but it was solved:
►Fake Headline:
►Cherry Picking:
►Nut Picking:
►Black propaganda:
►Jussie Smolett hate crime hoax:
►Biden & BLM hate crime hoax:
►Incorrect reporting by Fox:
►Mass wedding photo:

[stephenkillingback]

It's helpful to remember what theramintrees has said.
"People who don't want you to think are never your friend"

[ultracapitalistutopia]

A slightly condensed version of this video should be played in school class to educate kids of the deceptions on social media.

[DeshiBlacksheep]

"If the truth is on your side, why lie?"

I ask that everyday.

[Heathensauce]

This dude is an OG youtuber, he is one of the originators who helped build youtube into what it is. I think the youtube algorithm should show him more love.

[DarthVader-zedg]

Alternative title: You're not immune to propaganda.

[plaguedoctork]

In 2013 I was a brainwashed 13 year old watching your videos fuming with rage. 10 years later, here I am thanking you for enlightening me.
Keep up the good work my guy. Love & support. 💖

[kapwns]

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"
-isaac asimov

[Remu]

I was actually deceived and WRONGED by one of these examples. Thank you for bringing me a different perspective. It's hard to wade through all the propaganda these days. I don't have time to fact check everything, and that is what some of these deceitful people prey upon.

[javac]

People get mad when you tell them that they've been lied to, not for any other reason but there is a high cost to our ego to admit we are wrong or we got deceived or lied to.

[elli]

Thank you so much for this video. Very few people bother to debunk a lot of this nonsense because of how much effort it is to do so (compared to creating more lies). That sadly lets them go unchecked.

[SuperSpectrom]

Are you telling me darkmatter has been kratos this entire time?

[GreyException]

One of the things you did not cover in this video about propaganda, is how to detect it within ourselves and avoid moments of hypocrisy. Because if anyone says "I'm never hypocritical", that to me is a red flag.
We propagandize quite often. And even if we are aware of what cherry-picking is, or how to detect flaws/manipulation externally, it doesn't necessarily correlate to detecting our own internal blindspots.

[manfredpolster]

If history teaches us anything, it is that humanity learned nothing from our past.

[michellejames]

This felt so good to watch. You have touched on so many things that have been bothering me for years. I feel so validated.

[thebosstuna]

Been following your work for a decade now. At first I was enraged, then depressed... Even just a year ago when I lost my livelihood to AI, I got angry again. I didn't like feeling that cause as you always say, "hate nobody". It led me down all sorts of rabbit holes until I eventually saw the truth about our world and its rulers.

Thank you for all your work, mate... You have my eternal gratitude.

[WNYmathGuy]

I was just recently talking to friends about this type of thing. I was mentioning how when we were children the model for advertising was, "Sex Sells", and it is changed over time. The new model is, "Rage Sells".

[letegeuse]

Darkmatter, I have people like you to thank for teaching me critical thinking. Thank you.

[joseMgarcia]

Plato's allegory of the cave always comes to mind when trying to get people to think critically. They don't want to leave the cave, they want to have their feelings of importance validated by being able to say definitely what something is when it's actually just a shadow.

[MarinusMakesStuff]

So many people ask me why I left Instagram and Facebook because they enjoyed seeing my artworks. I had more than many followers, and every time I try to explain why, they just trivialize my reasons. People are so unaware of what's happening, that even telling them about the problem with their online behaviour is trivialized and they think I'm just being overly conscious about it. Next time I'll just send them this video instead because you are explaining in a great way what the problems are. Thanks a lot for this video.

[zerg]

Kratos warns us about late stage capitalism