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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.

1 mo on HN

How Kurzgesagt Cooks Propaganda For Billionaires

The Hated One
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle

Nuclear Vault
1 HN recommend · 2013–2022
1 mo on HN

Julian Assange on Seth Rich

Nieuwsuur
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HN

Bhopal Disaster - BBC - The Yes Men

razorfoundation
1 HN recommend · 2010–2022
1 mo on HN

Daily Fantasy Sports: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2015–2021
1 mo on HN

Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers

The Telegraph
1 HN recommend · 2013–2013
1 mo on HN

Student Debt: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2015–2017
1 mo on HN

March 2020: Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with Dr Jon LaPook about Covid-19

60 Minutes
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Brass Eye Episode 07 - Paedogeddon! (Special)

Pol Pot
1 HN recommend · 2017–2021
1 mo on HN

Newscasters Agree: A Christmas Present Or Two Or Ten Edition | CONAN on TBS

Team Coco
1 HN recommend · 2014–2020
1 mo on HN

Fauci in the Hall of the Mountain King

A Dishwasher at Google
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HN

Giving birth costs a lot. Hospitals won't tell you how much.

Vox
1 HN recommend · 2017–2022
1 mo on HN

Organ & Body Donations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2024–2024
1 mo on HN

CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in Vietnam

Witness to War
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Why are people mean on Twitter? - Smarter Every Day 214

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2020–2020
1 mo on HN

How China Is Changing Your Internet | The New York Times

The New York Times
1 HN recommend · 2016–2017
1 mo on HN

60 Minutes, Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs: BUSTED!

Thunderf00t
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2014–2021
1 mo on HN

Inside China's 'thought transformation' camps - BBC News

BBC News
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HN

Air Traffic Control: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

Congressional Fundraising: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HN

Prediction Markets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2026–2026
1 mo on HN

Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HN

Coal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HN

Putin's Revenge: Julia Ioffe (interview) | FRONTLINE

FRONTLINE PBS | Official
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Journalism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2016–2017
1 mo on HN

Locksmith ripoffs: Hidden camera investigation (Marketplace)

CBC News
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HN

The Lobby P1: Young Friends of Israel l Al Jazeera Investigations

Al Jazeera English
1 HN recommend · 2017–2022
1 mo on HN

This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet

Vox
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HN

Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes

Vox
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HN

The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts

Vox
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Pentagon officially released 'UFO' videos: BUSTED (Part 3)

Thunderf00t
1 HN recommend · 2021–2021
1 mo on HN

Tech Monopolies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim

ShootMeDead
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024
1 mo on HN

Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created

UnHerd
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Noam Chomsky Stumps Andrew Marr

Unapproved Narratives
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022