Ok so I left Britain more than 15 years ago and have been living in Norway, blissfully unaware of what’s been happening. I recently went back to visit family, where I notice that my dad’s had a bit of a swing to the right, politically speaking. At some point he put on gbnews.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?
How popular is this blatant propaganda?
As a dumb American, it’s part of a continuing trend to support global fascism through batshit right-wing media outlets. Anything Murdoch owned and “other”. Here, it’s mutated into webcasts and twitter/“other” social media platforms, but the goal is always the same: Spin, deflect, gaslight, lie, deny, and keep oligarchs in power damn the cost. It’s ridiculously effective and very cheap, relatively speaking.
What you’re describing happened to all our friends and family in the late 90’s / early-2000’s.
See also: Australia, New Zealand, India, France, Germany, Ital- well, Italy might be organic, who knows ;)