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Media, journalism & propaganda Videos Recommended on Hacker News (334)

Media, journalism & propaganda is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 334 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 688 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Media: journalism, news analysis, propaganda, misinformation, news satire, Last Week Tonight, VICE documentaries, media criticism, advertising and persuasion, conspiracy theories, UFOs.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on In Search Of A Flat Earth: “probably the best documentary I have seen on conspiracy theories.” — an HN commenter, 2021.

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Media, journalism & propaganda Videos Recommended on Hacker News (334)

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How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views

FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)

ADL's Never Is Now 2019 | ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen

I Watched Ancient Apocalypse So You Don't Have To (Part 1)

Televangelists: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War | NYT Opinion

Exposing Tether - Bitcoin's Biggest Secret

Flat Earth: A Measured Response

Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine | The Listening Post

The Alt-Right Playbook: Control the Conversation

The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie

Explained: "Go Fast" UFO Video - Not Low and Not Fast - Like a Balloon!

Joe Rogan Experience #725 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson

Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe - BBC

Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!

Copyright: How It Went Wrong

Municipal Violations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments

Nuclear Weapons: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

From the DMZ Into the Hermit Kingdom - Inside North Korea (Part 1/3)

Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All

PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else?

Did SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab?

60 Minutes - Luxottica. Do you know who makes your glasses?

Call Between Alexey Navalny and FSB Officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev [English Subtitles]

Я позвонил своему убийце. Он признался

How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town

The Dark Side of Counter-Strike 2

Don't Be a Sucker

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada

Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Scientific Studies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

China & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)

J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints