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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.

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

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Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response

Oswald Acted Alone: JFK Assassination Solved (Part 1 of 2)

President Trump: How & Why...

People & Power - On a wing and a prayer

Predatory Lending: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy

Sinclair's Soldiers in Trump's War on Media

The Alt-Right Playbook: Always a Bigger Fish

Colonel JD AI Codec Conversation MGS2 HD

What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab

Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

WOKE BRANDS

The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction

Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The Secret Chinese War for Your Opinion!

Timeshares: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda

Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr

Mike Arrington at Startup School 08

Adam Ruins Everything - The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit

8/28/2006 Peter Schiff On Kudlow & Co: Predicts The US Economic Collapse

Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 25/03/09

Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs

Unlocking UAP Mysteries: Economics, Aliens, and The Great Filter | Merged EP0109

Climate Change Debate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Retirement Plans: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent

China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World

Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213

DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" | E1039

The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger

Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Where's the 'Collusion'?

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Reality TV Editing