Thread: Zero Hedge Exposed

You know you're doing effective journalism when the CIA starts bitching about you.

zerohedge is fully on board with the US state dept on China though.

...^nah...you're just regurgitating various forms of Russian propaganda...a behavior which fits into rightwing extremophile, anti-vax, Qass activity...

They thank you for the publicity. Worth checking sometimes then, although I rarely do. Perhaps the US State dept should come out with an approved list of reading materials for enlightened anglos. I think JK Rowling and Enid Blyton are taboo these days, right?

Nowa days anyone that opposes or questions Biden's (and company!) narrative is labelled a Russian puppet or a right wing fascist insurrectionist. Going so well

Christ have people only just noticed?

Hoohoo used to hang on their every word, such was their Putin toadying.

No-one with a minimum of half of a functioning brain cell takes them seriously.

Which is why Sabang is a fan.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Christ have people only just noticed?

Hoohoo used to hang on their every word, such was their Putin toadying.

No-one with a minimum of half of a functioning brain cell takes them seriously.

Which is why Sabang is a fan.

They hate the chinks just as much as you do , chink hater.

Originally Posted by tomcat

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Originally Posted by tomcat

U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused

Originally Posted by tomcat

Zero Hedge has been sharply critical of Biden and posted stories about allegations of wrongdoing by his son Hunter. While perhaps best known for its coverage of markets and finance, the website also covers politics with a conservative bent.

And Zero Hedge is a favourite of Backspin's cut and paste jobbies.

Originally Posted by tomcat

U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda

Clear as crystal to anyone who is not fully brainwashed. ZH is complete trash for morons and as shit as Fox News.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Zero Hedge is a favourite of Backspin's cut and paste jobbies.

He falls into the moron catagory.

Originally Posted by bsnub

He falls into the moron category.

He would have to climb to reach the moron category.

Down our way zero hedge means bushless or as she says ouch a full Brazilian

“Russian Propaganda” Means Disputing US Propaganda




The Associated Press has published yet another article based on unevidenced assertions by anonymous government officials about the scary horrifying frightening Russian menace, this time to accuse another media outlet of promoting propaganda. Without a trace of irony.

“U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies,” AP reports. “The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence. The officials did not say whether they thought Zero Hedge knew of any links to spy agencies and did not allege direct links between the website and Russia.”

“The officials briefed The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence sources,” AP adds, repeating the refrain we’re all familiar with now which is always used to justify a complete absence of evidence or accountability for incendiary claims about governments the United States doesn’t like.

You have to scroll down to the eleventh paragraph for some examples of the “Kremlin propaganda” that Zero Hedge is accused of “amplifying”. These turn out to be entirely innocuous objections to western imperial narratives that were “written by people affiliated with the Strategic Culture Foundation,” an outlet the Biden administration sanctioned last year “for allegedly taking part in Russia’s interference in the 2020 U.S. election.”

“Recent articles listed as authored by the foundation and published by Zero Hedge include those with the headlines: ‘NATO Sliding Towards War Against Russia In Ukraine,’ ‘Americans Need A Conspiracy Theory They Can All Agree On’ and ‘Theater Of Absurd… Pentagon Demands Russia Explain Troops On Russian Soil,’” writes AP’s Nomaan Merchant.

You can read those three articles AP lists by clicking here, here and here respectively. Decide for yourself if these are sinister foreign psyops which require the urgent attention of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world acting in concert with one of the most influential news agencies on earth, or if they are not in fact relatively reasonable opinions which only stand out because they fall outside the Overton window of what’s considered acceptable debate in the tightly controlled spectrum of mainstream political discourse.

For its own part, Zero Hedge says that “this website has never worked, collaborated or cooperated with Russia, nor are there any links to spy (or any other) agencies.” The Associated Press offers no evidence or arguments to the contrary.

Zero Hedge happens to be one of the numerous outlets who periodically avail themselves of my open offer for anyone to republish my work free of charge if they want to, and what’s funny is I was just the other day noticing the number of views they get when they do so and marvelling that the US narrative control machine hasn’t done a better job of reducing their audience. Now a few days later here’s the US intelligence cartel using its media mouthpieces to brand it a Kremlin propaganda operation in what Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah calls a “direct government attack on free speech.”

I’ve disagreed with plenty of things I’ve seen published in Zero Hedge. I’ve also seen a lot of very useful information which is highly inconvenient for the US-centralized empire. It’s that exact kind of information that the empire has been working very hard to marginalize and minimize amid widespread public access to the internet.

The US government is not actually worried about Russian propaganda. The US government is worried about people disrupting US propaganda. Every day we’re offered new reasons why it’s important to regulate what online materials are seen by people, from fake news clickbait to Russian propaganda to Covid misinformation to foreign trolls to domestic extremism to election security, and the only thing they all have in common is that the solution is a more tightly regulated internet. At a certain point you can only conclude it is internet regulation itself that they are after, in the same way you’d conclude after a stranger kept offering you different reasons why you should let him hold your wallet that he’s really just after your wallet.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The ability to control the thoughts people think about what’s going on in their world is the only thing standing between the oppressive, exploitative status quo and revolutionary change. The powerful understand this while the general public do not. There is nothing, literally nothing, they wouldn’t be willing to do in order to ensure their control over dominant narratives.

When they warn about Russian propaganda causing people to think wrong thoughts in their heads, they are so close to admitting the truth that they’re all acutely aware of: that human minds are very hackable, and that this can be used to advance the interests of power.

Protecting this narrative control mechanism is the first and foremost priority of our ruling power structures, because it’s what all their other control mechanisms are built upon. That’s a major part of why the media have been acting so strange these last few years, and it’s a major part of why everything seems so weird and why so many people feel like they’re going a bit crazy when they try to understand the world.

Right now we’re looking at a race. Between humanity trying to awaken from the psychological cages that have been constructed for us, and the builders of those cages trying to finish tightening those bolts so they can lock down our minds forever.


https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/ru...a-ec1db576910b


Good old Caitlyn, says it as it is. My advice remains constant- diversify your Propaganda sources.

If everything is so hunky dory with Zero Hedge, then why do they hide behind “Tyler Durden”? If they were worth salt, they would publish their real name to back up the shit they publish, like a real journalist would. Put their own reputation on the line. Cowards.

So you really wanna know who is behind ZeroH MK- I found out with Wiki! Try it yourself- he's a Bulgarian born US resident and citizen, and a financial trader.
You can even find out his real name- but good luck pronouncing it.

Right. A real on-the-level kind of guy, huh?

For a Bulgarian.

Love a bit of casual racism. Don’t you?

Originally Posted by misskit

If everything is so hunky dory with Zero Hedge, then why do they hide behind “Tyler Durden”? If they were worth salt, they would publish their real name to back up the shit they publish, like a real journalist would. Put their own reputation on the line. Cowards.

It's just their genre. And it helps them avoid personal attacks and doxxing.

Cowards.

Originally Posted by Backspin

It's just their genre. And it helps them avoid personal attacks and doxxing.

Hiding their real name helps prevent doxxing? How does that work Backspit?

Originally Posted by Backspin

It's just their genre

...their genre is financial news...no need to propagandize, grossly distort or misinform...much of what they offer is fraudulent nonsense.

Originally Posted by sabang

So you really wanna know who is behind ZeroH MK- I found out with Wiki!

Old news.

From 2020...

The financial blog Zero Hedge was permanently suspended from Twitter on Friday after it published an article identifying a Chinese scientist it claimed created the deadly Wuhan coronavirus.

A report from Buzzfeed News first captured on the controversy, which labeled Zero Hedge a "far-right" and "pro-Trump" news site, reflecting the long way the site has come since it began posting insider financial knowledge and humor in around the 2008 financial collapse.

Since its rise to popularity among Wall Street insiders, Zero Hedge has since become best known for its sensationalist headlines and gruff take on the world's news.
Here's the history of the controversial publication.

The blog rose to prominence after the 2008 financial crisis.

The small site began as a platform for an anonymous blogger that posted a mix of financial musings, doomsday predictions for major players, and high-level market intelligence and data.

New York Magazine later reported that a major moment came in Spring 2008, when the site posted a claim that Goldman Sachs was using computers to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in illegitimate trading profits from the New York Stock Exchange, invisibly undercutting the market and sidestepping the regulatory reach of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The post didn't initially raise eyebrows in the mainstream, but it earned its cred when a former programmer for the investment bank was arrested for allegedly stealing codes that a federal prosecutor said could be used to "manipulate markets in unfair ways."

The blog post found its way across the city's financial and media gossip chains, and the New York Times later published a front-page article on so-called high-frequency trading and its potential abuses that triggered a letter from Sen. Chuck Schumer, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, to the SEC that same day. Twelve days later, the SEC signaled that it was considering a ban on the very computerized trading that Zero Hedge had attacked.

Despite the massive waves caused by the blog's apparent insider information, the identities behind the site remained a mystery.

Zero Hedge's approach could be easily summed up by the tagline displayed at the top of the site, which claims "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."

This is a line from the 1999 movie Fight Club, which also earned a nod in the site's leading byline, "Tyler Durden," the name of Brad Pitt's anarchist character in the film, who is seen blowing up the headquarters of major credit-card companies.

Reports in 2009 pointed to Daniel Ivandjiiski, a Bulgarian-born former analyst and hedge fund employee who was banned from Wall Street for insider trading in 2008.

A 2016 Bloomberg article revealed that "Durden" was actually three people who were running the infamous blog.

Then-32-year-old Colin Lokey told the outlet that he was behind the site, along with Ivandjiiski and Tim Backshall, a well-known derivatives strategist.

In the years after the financial crash, the site had a bonafide social presence and a solidified place among financial insiders.

Tyler Durden" became an oft-cited source and contributor on mainstream financial talk shows and websites in the years after breaking the story on Goldman Sachs. By 2014, Zero Hedge's Twitter account had 215,000 followers and had an international audience, CNN reported at the time.

"It's extremely influential in the New York, London, and global hedge fund community," Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group, a brokerage firm, told CNN. "I meet clients in London and they mention it, and I meet regulators in Washington and they mention it."

At its peak, before the Zero Hedge Twitter account was deleted, it had 670,000 followers.

Lokey told Bloomberg that the other men tightly controlled what and how he was told to write.

Lokey told the outlet that he wrote much of the site's political content, but he was tightly constricted in the framing of the articles for specific causes and courses of political thought.

"I tried to inject as much truth as I could into my posts, but there's no room for it," Lokey told Bloomberg. "Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."

Ivandjiiski disputed that description, telling the outlet that Lokey could write "anything and everything he wanted directly without anyone writing over it."

In April 2016, Lokey had told Ivandjiiski over text that he was leaving the controversial site over his ideology concerns.

"I can't be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Trump anymore. It' s wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but it will kill your brand over the long run," Lokey texted Ivandjiiski. "This isn't a revolution. It's a joke."

A massive article posted on the site shortly after the Bloomberg article's debut features text messages between the two to dispute all of Lokey's claims and re-iterate the site's manifesto.

The tell-all report made a splash, but the site kept humming.

Lokey's claims about the site's alleged ideology campaigns came in the same year as the 2016 US presidential elections, which put a spotlight on the information flooding voters from the endless amounts of online sources.

Some efforts to root out fake or targeted right-wing news came in broad-strikes moves from social media platforms like Facebook, which in March 2019 appeared to be preventing Zero Hedge's articles from being shared by users.

The social network reportedly called the block "a mistake," and the articles could be shared after a few days.

The site persisted in applying its signature stance to covering news into 2020, as its homepage on February 1 included stories on environmental activist Greta Thunberg as an "angry 17-year-old girl," attacks on "white privilege" within "cancel culture," and a conspiracy theory on murdered Democratic staffer Seth Rich.

The coronavirus scientist story is just the site's latest foray into news-based controversy.

The coronavirus scientist story is just the site's latest foray into news-based controversy.

The article, titled "Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?" was published Wednesday, and speculated that the virus was developed in a lab by a scientist working at Wuhan's Institute of Virology, whose phone number and email were published in the story.

"If anyone wants to find out what really caused the coronavirus pandemic that has infected thousands of people in China and around the globe, they should probably pay [the scientist's name] a visit," the story read.

The story doesn't provide any specific evidence to blame the lab beyond a press release on the scientist's work studying why bats which carry the coronavirus don't get sick.

As for official theories on the spread of the virus, Zero Hedge says they are a "fabricated farce."

A spokesperson for Twitter told BuzzFeed that "the account was permanently suspended for violating our platform manipulation policy."

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-...-controversy-6

Lokey told the outlet that he wrote much of the site's political content, but he was tightly constricted in the framing of the articles for specific causes and courses of political thought.

"I tried to inject as much truth as I could into my posts, but there's no room for it," Lokey told Bloomberg. "Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."

I see a correlation here to all the crap the Three Stooges post.



Coincidence? I think not.

Originally Posted by bsnub

I see a correlation here to all the crap the Three Stooges post.



Coincidence? I think not.

You sure got a big mouth when it comes to everyone elses sources. Without ever disclosing yours. The only source you've ever stood behind is Vice news.

The same Vice news that was founded by Gavin McIness and takes money from the US state dept.