Hoaxed

As someone who has been fascinated with 'Yellow Journalism' and 'Fake News' for a while. I can tell you that this masterful piece will reach you, no matter your level of understanding or your political affiliation, Bush, Trump, Clinton, Obama, or your preferred news source NYT, CNN, Fox.

This isn't a film to convince you to 'take a side,' it is one that should convince you to seek truth. Lies have been told on both sides. As a photographer who has gone to protests, I can attest to the fact that there are such things as professional protesters, that there are many who don't even know why they are there, and so many, who will do just about anything for the camera.

Technically, this documentary is beautiful, the cinematography is stellar, and even the transitions feel like carefully chosen accents to move the story along.

For families, I will say that there's some swearing in it, but that is real life.

There is only one truth, and morality is key.

Firstly, I have independently observed many of the findings in this documentary. The mainstream media is collectively deceitful. Their goal is not to inform but to generate malice and to enslave people's thinking.

I happen to be a huge fan of Cassie Jaye and Jordan Peterson. Both of them were under utilised in this video. I can confirm that the Australian media savaged Cassie Jaye in a most heinous manner. I public raised objections when it happened, however, in Australia, we have adopted the US mainstream media's propagandist techniques with open arms. Cassie was doomed for challenging feminism.

I also found the Black Lives Matter section to be wonderful. The BLM rep seems like a wonderful human being. I too would love to see him have more representation in the media, but, I know exactly why the entire media industry will not give him a voice.

On the flip side, this documentary distracted viewers with 1984 style imagery. There were some comments that I questioned. In the same way "The Vice" feels like Democratic propaganda, this video feels like Republican propaganda. The anti Islam message written on a guest speaker's face was left unchallenged without any Islamic representation. This whole "1984" propaganda tone made me feel very uncomfortable. Propaganda is the thing that made me distrust the mainstream media. Why use it to influence me here?

This documentary is absolutely worth watching. However, its propagandist techniques (through 1984 style imagery) make me uncomfortable to recommend this to friends. I want to educate with facts, not via distractions. I say this in spite of agreeing with most of what was said. In other words, I'm not against the message, but I was uncomfortable with the delivery method and the one-sidedness at times.

The focus of this documentary should have been less about races/political parties and instead, it should have been built around who benefits and why. A presenter partially talked about how most of the media is strongly left (and I agree) - but this should have been the premise - and it should have been backed with fact. Otherwise, this is just more fake news ... out of one cave and into the next.

Summary: Excellent examples, poor use of propaganda as if the facts aren't enough by themselves, not enough myth-busting (eg. is everyone who is white really a white supremacist?). 7/10 for bravery and good research. 3 Marks lost for loss of focus and use of propaganda imagery.

I am not a fan of Alex Jones or Mike Cernovich, but this was presented very well. It spoke to the truth of fake news and media that have been caught countless times but have never owned up to it. How they attack anyone that speaks contrary to their political agenda. When it is said that fake news is the enemy of the people, it is true. Journalists and fake news media betrayed the American people when they broke the trust and let political agendas distort the facts.

I went to the NYC premiere, and in advance of that I was expecting that it would be biased, and slanted in a way that I wouldn't feel comfortable - and if that occurred I would have left the showing. I've supported great journalism for years which has covered everything from Agri, seeds, climate change, FDA, carcinogens in everyday household and cosmetic products, etc., and one of my mentors is also top journo - so i certainly don't mind being challenged and re-evaluating things as new info reveals itself. I've always held a grudge about the lies that got us into Iraq war, but have difficulty explaining that to people. I have a great memory, most others don't The movie documented that elegantly, as they also did with the media devices that may be contributing to our continued presence in syria. I actually saw the movie twice. Once at the premiere, and then asked my sister and her husband and my wife to watch it. I was very interested in their thoughts so beforehand i didn't give them any info that might affect their opinion, i just said 'watch this'. They enjoyed it - in that its production quality is high and the narrative is at a good pace and kept interesting. They also thought it was great open critique of the media and news. I recommend it

I just finished watching this film and am a little blown away by it. It will be hard to trust anything from mainstream media anymore after seeing how deceptive and manipulative they can be. I thought I knew where and from who fake news originated, but it turns out, "it's coming from inside the house!" America, and I assume most of the world is in a mess right now, and it's difficult to know who to trust to tell us about it. See this film, it's like being released from The Matrix!

The other curious thing I noticed here on IMDb are in the reviews for this film. Most of the reviews are reasonable with only a few nutbars contributing. On many, many, many reviews, the little line that tells you who's voted on each review as to whether it was helpful or not reads, "0 out of 3 found this helpful." There are SO many of these it almost leads me to believe that IMDb has a glitch of some sort, but that's probably not the case. No, there are still some people that want to do what they can to keep people from accessing information they don't agree with. The "Helpful" rating is a small, rather pathetic attempt to do this, and apparently there are three people (or one person with three accounts) who has spent a very long time downvoting reviews. And for what? Watch the film, decide for yourself.