4 Stages of Disinformation(as in Uyghur "genocide" claims

An outline of the 4 stages of Disinformation:

A) Selective reporting of events, specializing in cherry-picking evidence and/or anecdotal evidence in order to weave a preconceived notion of "victims" and the "oppressor".

B) Hyping the negative aspects, using both exaggeration and often times hiding the funding sources--often from Western governments themselves or their fig-leaf covering NGOs--of opposition individuals or groups.

C) Utilizing "independent" think tanks to generate biased stories, which are then distributed to either unsuspecting or complicit media sources, in order to create an "echo chamber" of "fake news."

D) In extreme cases, even the sponsorship of "black flag" incidents and operations(such as the completely compromised "White Helmets" medical teams in Syria); and widely airing their one-sided reporting, in order to create the urgency of a "humanitarian" justification for Western powers to impose sanctions and even military intervention.

These highly-coordinated campaigns of an Imperialist narrative have been refined since the days of the Cold War (in the late 20th century, the targets have been the then USSR and secondarily the People's Republic of China). To such levels of subterfuge, that even many progressive Western activists are completely unaware of their origins. Hence, true progressives have to become ever more vigilant, in order to uncover many layers of onion skins of the Imperiali/NeoLiberal disinformation matrix. A few truly independent websites--such as Counterpunch, the Grayzone, FAIR, and the World Socialist.org--are good starting points to begin deciphering the nefarious strylines coming out of Washington. Indeed, a Brave New World is already upon u, and no amount of blaming "fake news" on the T-Rump gang of miscreants will exonerate the far greater danger coming out of Western governments.