Were You Manipulated Today the Same Way Romans Were 2,000 Years Ago? - Video

Majestic and manipulated. Miracle Studios brings you the story of how the ancient world invented fake news — and how it works exactly the same way today.
Before Twitter. Before cable news. Before the printing press.
Augustus spent forty years constructing a version of reality in which he had not seized power but restored it. He commissioned poets, historians and architects to embed his narrative so deeply into Roman culture that we still largely accept his version of events today.
Caesar wrote his own dispatches from Gaul and distributed them as objective news. He wrote about himself in the third person. His political allies ensured his version was the version Romans heard. By the time he crossed the Rubicon — a move against Roman law — a significant portion of the Roman public had been prepared to receive it as justified.
Cleopatra spoke nine languages. She was a trained mathematician, philosopher and military strategist. The version of her that survived into history was written entirely by her enemies — and the framing was so effective it lasted two thousand years.
And the Acta Diurna — Rome's daily gazette — taught the ancient world something that modern media scholars still write about: you don't need to control what people think. You only need to control what they think about.
The technology is different. The psychology is the same.

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Were You Manipulated Today the Same Way Romans Were 2,000 Years Ago?

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