Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
Disinformation is neither an accident nor excess; it is the normal functioning of late capitalism’s media apparatus. Our friend Mickey Huff, executive director of Project Censored, talks with Steve about the machinery of modern propaganda, algorithmic control, and billionaire-owned media ecosystems. Their conversation highlights key tensions of a base and superstructure in decay. Mickey lays out the historical continuity of media manipulation, and they bring up surveillance as a class weapon and electoral distraction as a dead end. (Mickey may be the first guest to mention Gilens and Page before Steve does.)
From Silicon Valley oligarchs and tech monopolies to the collapse of local journalism and the rise of curated realities, Steve and Mickey frame today’s information war as a struggle over who gets to shape “common sense.” Critical media literacy is not about neutral fact-checking but about exposing whose interests a narrative serves.
Mickey Huff is Executive Director of Project Censored, President of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation, and Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College
Find his full bio at projectcensored.org/mickey-huff
@ProjectCensored on X
Chapters:
00:00 Media Narratives Setup
02:03 Meet Mickey Huff
05:02 Oligarch Media Control
08:25 Project Censored Origins
10:44 Press Freedom Theory
14:24 Billionaire Media Barons
16:57 Algorithmic Ownership Power
17:50 Lawfare And FCC Threats
20:56 AI Influencers Fake Reality
22:23 Education Deficit Screens
26:38 Connecting Dots Locally
28:24 So What Can We Do
32:11 Screens And Addiction
33:24 Critical Dialogue Skills
35:15 Journalism Versus Influencers
37:25 Protests And Real Leverage
41:41 Surveillance And Data Power
47:20 Gatekeepers Say Quiet Part
50:15 Beyond Red Versus Blue
52:12 Inverted Totalitarianism Lens
53:42 Worthy Victims And Sanctions
58:02 Project Censored Resources
01:00:03 Closing And Support Links
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Disinformation is neither an accident nor excess; it is the normal functioning of late capitalism’s media apparatus. Our friend Mickey Huff, executive director of Project Censored, talks with Steve about the machinery of modern propaganda, algorithmic control, and billionaire-owned media ecosystems. Their conversation highlights key tensions of a base and superstructure in decay. Mickey lays out the historical continuity of media manipulation, and they bring up surveillance as a class weapon and electoral distraction as a dead end. (Mickey may be the first guest to mention Gilens and Page before Steve does.)
From Silicon Valley oligarchs and tech monopolies to the collapse of local journalism and the rise of curated realities, Steve and Mickey frame today’s information war as a struggle over who gets to shape “common sense.” Critical media literacy is not about neutral fact-checking but about exposing whose interests a narrative serves.
Mickey Huff is Executive Director of Project Censored, President of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation, and Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College
Find his full bio at projectcensored.org/mickey-huff
@ProjectCensored on X
Chapters:
00:00 Media Narratives Setup
02:03 Meet Mickey Huff
05:02 Oligarch Media Control
08:25 Project Censored Origins
10:44 Press Freedom Theory
14:24 Billionaire Media Barons
16:57 Algorithmic Ownership Power
17:50 Lawfare And FCC Threats
20:56 AI Influencers Fake Reality
22:23 Education Deficit Screens
26:38 Connecting Dots Locally
28:24 So What Can We Do
32:11 Screens And Addiction
33:24 Critical Dialogue Skills
35:15 Journalism Versus Influencers
37:25 Protests And Real Leverage
41:41 Surveillance And Data Power
47:20 Gatekeepers Say Quiet Part
50:15 Beyond Red Versus Blue
52:12 Inverted Totalitarianism Lens
53:42 Worthy Victims And Sanctions
58:02 Project Censored Resources
01:00:03 Closing And Support Links
Weaponize Knowledge with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
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