I'll allow their use of AI.
Sadly they've got a Ricky Gervais video as the ai subtitling sample, but then again it is his anti Hollywood golden globes speech... which was essentially controlled opposition.
Nevertheless.
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Works for Bellingcat. They're an OSINT (open source intelligence) org who receive most of their funding from US/UK governments and NED (National Endowment for Democracy - US propaganda arm & CIA cutout).
Full of intelligence assets & aggressively manufacture consent (and sometimes faked 'evidence') in support of US foreign policy and to go after state enemies.
Yikes, that's real bad. Wonder why he would be so open about being employed by them considering his audience
Let's just say, a grifter has only to be smarter than his victims.
I guess that's the thing, though. I assume that his target audience would be more capable if critical thinking if they knew this about him. Maybe it's just kinda buried info, unless you go poking around and researching Bellingcat or have followed him pretty closely over the years which I admit I've done neither
They only have to believe themselves to be able to think critically. Whill eating that NATO slob like good little piggies.
You do not even have to go as far as looking into Bellingcat, noticing how his "Bastards" somehow include the entire western shitlist is something that already leaves a rancit smell.
There's still an enormous pool of Americans who maintain their chauvinism via the facade of the two party system, where every admitted problem with America can be attributed to the far right - whether that's fash marching in the streets, republican politicians, or 'rightwing' billionaires. Any uniparty or foreign policy can simply be blamed on the other team in order to preserve the idea of America as a postive beacon of light in the world, and mroe importantly, their own heads.
If your audience is only ever looking for you to prescribe blame to that group, you can completely wash any complicity of yourself or your audiences role and views in the problem.
So basically you're saying that his audience are libs, more or less, who maintain that blind spot intentionally so that they don't have to engage in self criticism and do the hard work it takes to shift their own paradigm? Cuz yeah it's much easier to just take his word for it, I guess, than thinking that someone on "your team" could be doing something nefarious...It's just very difficult for me to understand people who are happy with surface explanations and don't want to do further investigation. To me that quality is the foundation of leftist thought.
If I were to give him the benefit of the doubt I could see him acting as a plant to throw the feds off, maybe, but how likely is that? Idk