In an age of de-indexing, de-platforming, and de-banking, it should be clear why I’m an open-source information advocate.
Independent professionals in journalism and international relations need access to material—especially in war and extremism contexts—to show every side of a conflict and analyse how narratives are built.
Platforms, governments, and lobbying networks increasingly blackout information, even from researchers, as a form of perception management.
This blackout enables de-humanisation. It becomes easier to kill or hate when people are engineered to see others as less than human.
I used existing Wagner PMC footage to demonstrate how propaganda design works—how easily visual language can be tuned to attract young men drawn to militant or far-right aesthetics.
The purpose is educational: to show how information control and selective framing shape perception.
This is not to promote any group or ideology. It’s to expose how digital blackouts and algorithmic curation make such manipulation invisible.
I’ll discuss this further in an upcoming stream on YouTube, X, and soon Telegram.
— kianlayer0
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