of a night on expos a we examine the us sanctions against russia today. and metta's ban, revealing how these actions pose a significant threat to freedom of speech under the pretext of defending democracy. our analysis highlights how media figures often perpetuate biased narratives and endorse censorship. we explore how digital mainstream media, including the new york times and cnn have framed the recent israeli entity attacks on lebanon, often justifying violence against civilians by placing the blame on hisballah for supporting gaza, and in the northern gaza strip the... humanitarian crisis is

escalating as the un reports that nearly 90% of gaza's population, or 1.9 million people are now internally displaced with many forced to flee multiple times. welcome to expose, the show that leaves no stone unturned. in this segment, we're breaking down how the media is either ignored or manipulated the coverage of the us sanctions and metas ban on russia today, framing it in a way that stiffles debate and critical thinking. let us turn to foad, who will walk us through the tactics used to shape public perception. thank you for being here, foad. thank you, so the situation we're discussing today is not just about sanctions or a ban, it's how information is filtered, controlled. then

presented to the public. what makes this particularly severe is the president, it sets for silencing voices that challenge the mainstream narratives. now let's have look at a clip from the new york post featuring secretary of state anthony blinken as he of announces the sanctions against rt, but before we dive into the content, pay close attention to the headline they used on youtube. here's where the bias begins. so the headline reads russian propaganda outlet rt behind crowd funding, crowd funding campaign for moscow's troops. in ukraine, the wording is troubling for few reasons, first labeling rt as a propaganda arm sets the tone before viewers even engage with the actual content, preconditions the audience to crt as inherently illegitimate, framing the entire issue as a highly charged and one-sided perspective, secondly, the phrase defending democracy is used to justify these sanctions, it raises the question, how is silencing media defending democracy, the very notion of democracy depends on the availability.

the firehoses of russian government propaganda and disinformation. they are engaged in covert influence activities aimed at undermining american elections and democracies, functioning like de facto arm of russia's intelligence apparatus. today, we're announcing that these kremlin back media outlets are not only uh playing this covert influence role to undermine democracy in the united states, but also to mettle in the sovereign affairs of countries around the world. so blincan's accusation that rt is a russian agent. influence us elections is not just alarming, it's absurd. um, labeling the media outlet as foreign agent without any concrete evidence creates a very dangerous narrative that allows broader censorship and suggests that any descenting coverage can be dismissed as propaganda. yeah, so continuing this trend, do it well, d.w. also showcased the complete acceptance of the ban on freedom of speech by hosting justin sherman uh, who surprise is a senior fellow at the infamous atlantic council. surprised that they're

having an atlantic council person to talk to us about this important issue, exactly, so this organization is known for it strong ties to western political agendas, it's no survive, no surprise that... provided a fully biased opinion on the banning of rt from meta and the us sanctions imposed on rt and its employees, so let's take a look at what he had to say and how it fits into the larger narrative understand, haven't we always just presumed that russian state media uh outlets were propagandis and essentially up to no good, well we certainly could go back a long while with that right uh to provda or truth as as it translates in the soviet union. um so there there has been a long history uh even within the putin regime of controlling news outlets of manipulating them for uh state purposes and rt has been at the forefront of parening lies about everything from covid to the war on ukraine and so yes

it has been well known for a long time what rt is do oh my god uh after hearing sherman's remarks it's not hard to notice the way he flance his uh russian language skills while smirking at the presenter ' and his straightforward question, so should we just presume that uh russian state tv is up to no good? this uh, this is his question, this dismissive attitude reveals a bias that undermines any objective analysis, so instead of engaging in meaningful dialogue, sherman resorts to repeating pentagon talking points, demonizing russia much like the narratives used against iran, venezuela, cuba and syria, and this approach not only stifles critical discussion, but also perpetuates a dangerous cycle of misinf. information uh that serves specific geopolitical interests? i couldn't agree more in the way that he says that i agree with the ban as if like he's his opinion means anything except him being a pont in the hands of the empire. thank you very much f for your analysis. it's a pleasure having you despite uh the horrors that we are going through in lebanon. thank

you very much for making it. we are in a relatively uh safe zone up until now so i thank you for making it today. thank you very much. ladies and gents please stay tuned. next we have. digital mainstream media. now we turn our focus to the troubling coverage the recent israeli entity terrorist attacks on lebanon, specifically the scandal involving exploding pages and walkie talkies. joining me is sima iten to discuss how digital media framed these events, particularly the ville attack on a residential building in beirot that resulted in civilian casualties. thanks emilion for. and i'm i know that this this morning was a bit tough uh for everyone, especially for you guys, i want to thank you very much for making it to this studio, thank you, thanks for having me, it's all good, so the you know when it comes to the coverage of these terror attacks, unprecedented terror attacks uh, you

know pages and two way radio devices that we we haven't seen tech weaponiz on the scale before, i think the severity of this topic cannot be overstated because it underscores once again this complicity. of digital media uh in the west and in the region in supporting israel during these attacks against civilians in lebanon and framing it as an operation and a very genius operation even and just as we witnessed over the past 12 months in gaza where media narratives uh you know justified all of this violence against innocent people, we're seeing the disturbing pattern repeat itself, exact same pattern and exact same tactics and uh the way these events are framed creates a very chilling effect. when it comes to accountability and it reinforces very dangerous status quo that allows aggression to continue unchecked and not just continue but intensify and multiply. so uh beginning with a piece by the new york times which presented the issue of the exploding pages and walkie talkies in a way that seems to

justify the israeli attack of course. the nyt article which was written by uh sheera franko, ronan bergman and saad was entitled how israel built a modern day trosan horse. exploding pages, in it, the nyt said the following, in lebanon, as israel picked off senior hazballah commandos with targeted assassinations, their leader came to a conclusion, if israel was going high tech, hezballah would go low, it was clear a distressed chief hassanlah said that israel was using cell phone networks to pinpoint the locations of his operators, the adjectives, distressed, like they know. how he's feeling and what he's wearing and okay, so the nyt continues, not only did mr. nasar allah ban cell phones from meetings of hezballah operatives, he ordered that the details of hazballah movements and plans never be communicated over cell phones, said three intelligence officials. hezballah officers,

he ordered had to carry pages at all times and in the event of war, pages would be used to tell fighters where to go, so this article suggests that hazballah had instructed its members and fall was to stop using smartphones linked to wi-fi and instead use the pages and this framing implies that hizballah's precautions somehow justify israel's mil response yeah you know um despite the fact that there are certain reports that say that these rigged devices were sent to lebanon in 2022, yes, and this shifts the blame on the victims, literally, the victims uh of aggression, and such narratives not only distort the reality on the ground, but create a dangerous precedent for justifying attacks on civilians, and we know the attacks targeted, okay, many of them were fires, but they are not in combat, and doctors and ambulance, and journalists, nurses, exactly, but but the point is, even if they are fighters, they are not in, yeah, they're actually in a civilian office, they're not in combat. yeah, it isn't, it's a war crime, they can't fight it, so yeah, it's total violation, so next we have cnn, which

further defends the israeli tack by placing the blame again squarely on hizballah, now this cnn article is called israel has signaled readiness for war with hezballah after twin explosive attacks, here's what we know written by jesse yung, now the sub heading of the article uh says, why would israel target lebanon? now cnn argues the following: hezballah is part of a larger iran-lead axis across the middle east, spanning yemen, syria, gaza and iraq that has engaged in a simmering conflict with israel and its allies over the past 11 months. the axis has said they will continue striking israeli targets as long as the war in gaza goes on, rebranding themselves as a supportive front for palestinians in the strip as described by a senior hezballah leader, so then cnn continue. by providig excuses as to why israel conducted the attack, the israeli mod to be specific,

conducted the attack at this specific timing, saying israel may have chosen this timing for the attacks because it believed hezballah had descovered the pagers capability, making it a use it or lose it moment, set an israely source familiar with national security, so cnn and this piece argues that hazballah's decision to initiate a support front for gaza. in response to the ongoing genocide against the palestinian people in the strip somehow justifies israel's military actions in lebanon and intelligence operations, so this narrative is very problematic because it uh hints that any act of solidarity or resistance is a provocation of course, deserving of uh violent retaliation. we've seen this over and over rewriting the narrative completely, you know, oh, we'll stop attacking if you stop throwing rockets, we didn't provoke you, you, you opened the front, you're the one who opened a front and we didn't provoke you, we were dealing with then you decided to involve yourself, so by framing it like this, the cnn not only absolves israel of responsibility, but

contributes to the ongoing cycle of violence really and victimization. 100%. i on board this 100%, and you see how these articles are always written with some israely infiltrated within, giving supposedly facts, how how could it be facts when it's biased to begin with? thank you very much sima for your analysis of this uh part of the show, you're staying with us to talk more about how social media dealt with another pressing issue as well, ladies and gents, please stay tuned, next we have social media expose. it has become some sort of norm for certain media personas to play out their roles as ponds of western propaganda, prioritizing insults over meaningful dialogue, rather than addressing the urgent issues at hand, including the ongoing genocide in gaza, these figures often choose to attack their guests, trading a troubling disregard of the very human rights they claim to uphold. let us hear more about

this specific issue with sima again. thanks million seema. so this is a scene that we've seen repeated over and over again since 7 october 2023, nearly year ago now and it's only gained momentum really as these social media giants uh choose to censor anyone advocating for an end to this genocide. and meanwhile high profile tv personas uh become so engulfed in their own egos are. challenged when they failed to address the pressing questions at hand, so instead of engaging with those who call for the killing uh to stop, they resort to tactics that demonize their critics and dismiss them uh, prioritizing their image over the very real human suffering that deserves our attention, and one example of this is mahdi hassan, yeah, who, you, i could, we could do a whole episode about him, i great, yeah, he recently resorted to attacking jill stein during an interview uh, because she simply suggested that people would vote should vote for her if they want to see an end to the genocide uh and instead of engaging with the substance of

her message he chose to dismiss her plea and instead focused on personal attacks which demonstrates how some media figures prioritize this sensationalism um over meaningful dialogue and this pattern not only distracts from urgent discussions but it serves to delegitimize those advocating for peace and justice.ah similar examples when you watch pierce morgan it's all personal attacks yes yes so anyway in the following expo... we have sabi sabs who shared a screenshot of the famous tv personality meh hassan who had blocked her on x and this was the reasoning apparently my response to because i'm now blocked, how dare i call out a genocidal party? i mean, really for context, sabi was commenting on an interview that mahdi hassan had done with jil stein about her views calling for an end to the genocide against palestinians and that went as follows. let's look at that. every vote that's cast for kamela harris or for donald

trump is an endorsement of genocide, it is affirmation of genocide, lay out for me the steps whereby i go into voting booth. green and the genocide stops, let me put very clearly, we are creating a very organized coalition that is here for the long hall, they were democrats that were sending uh cops to campuses to beat up kids on my campus, okay coming in riot year to remove people from encampments, when people were dying on mass from covid, when he was praising nazis doing domestic terrorism as but says, did you ever any point say maybe i got that one wrong? oh no, you said in november 2015 as assad and... massacring syrians in their tens of thousands quote, the us should be working with syria, russia and iran to restore all of syria to control by the government, that's government, that was an unapproved statement which was taken down the moment it was seem to have lot of things online that you don't approve, would you tell your supporters at home vote green everywhere but in those three swing states vote against the domestic terrorist um uh so to that obvious attack

sabi sabs expressed her opinion her thoughts regarding mehdi hassan's behavior. yeah, saying, the point is this, mehdi, you don't reward genocide, you're more upset with jill stein than you are with the biden administration that killed those kids you claim to care about, 100%, and and what's what's really uh, a bit uh unnerving of of the position that m hasan put jill sign is is she caved at some of the points, she didn't have answer, yeah, which gives us how powerful these situations can be in favor of the host against the interview. you're put into a corner like that and you have to like retract what you had initially said and meant uh so anyway that comment by sabi sabs apparently shook mahdi and he decided to block sabi and mahdi did not like the fact that people pointed out to him that instead of engaging with the message uh in meaningful dialogue he chose to dismiss her plea and he focused on you know personal attacks and

things that weren't really relevant to the subject at hand and this pattern only distracts from urgent. discussions, but it also serves to delegitimize those advocating for peace and justice to whatever degree or extent they are trying to do so, not necessarily jill, stein per say, but i'm speaking in general about attacking anyone who tries to have meaningful conversation about something very important, another example of media personalities failing in their role as responsible interviews, is james wale and his co-host, ash gold, can't stand these two. who are consistently rude and just plain dismissive when it comes to speaking with experts issues related to palestine of course, so rather than facilitating a thoughtful exchange, they belidle their guests, you know, and this reinforces very biased narratives, which i think is their purpose, instead of shedding light on the reality of the conflict, so let let me show you a recent post on x that captures this very troubling behavior in

action, yeah, so norma posted the... james wale and psychopant sidekick are the rudest, most ignorant people who have slot on radio, get them off, they are embarrassing. norma was reposting the following interview that james and ash conducted with journalist, in which both had a complete meltdown over her blont remarks, so here is a clip from that interview. let's see that this gentleman is, you know this gentleman, can't say it from here, just... kirby, do you know james kirby? i've never have you heard of james kirby? i haven't, go on. oh, i'll tell you who james kirby is. james kirby is a brit who israel killed along with six other world central kitchen humanitarian workers. do you care about crips? do you care about the people of your own three is as well, they killed their

own hostages, they didn't mean to, that's war. mistakes happen. the truth gets in the way of people like you. "you don't care what the people of israel think, you don't care about dead brits either, what you care about is excuse me, don't you tell me what i think, go away, i'm sorry, i've had enough, i'm not having that anymore, get off, off, what a queen, so so the clip speaks for itself, both hosts had a complete meltdown and came und done when she does she exposed the the hypocrisy, yeah, and the the just mind mindlessness, so instead of engaging with her..." um, they just broke down, resorting to insults and deflection, of course, go away and all that, rather than addressing any core issues, you know, they couldn't address why they don't care that british citizens were, yeah, and... keep accusing people of uh siding with terrorists, but when they get accused of being hypocrites, they lose it, they lose it. so it's while it's clear that many journalistts serve as pawns in the hands

the empire, there's also those who stand against censorship and who've actually played crucial role, yeah in pushing back, especially when it comes to telling the truth about what's going on, so independent journalists who refuse to be silenced have made a significant impact in countering these oppressive narratives and one of these is afshin ratansi who... recently posted a short video from an interview he conducted with george galloway where they discussed this very issue, in fact, so let's take a look at what they had to say. i've just adumbrated number of celebrity occasions in which prominent british voices have been seized, literally seized by the state. we thought, maybe the next stage as they realize they're losing is to um, and maybe britain. started it earlier, closing down all the libraries, maybe the important thing next for western european nations acting as vassal states for the united states will be to reduce money for

education under the guise of austerity. so i've seen captioned uh the video with the following. this has been going on for a long time, now it has become desperate. my interview on have it out with george galloway discussing increasing censorship in nato nations as the horror of the gaza genocide. is witnessed by everyone with mobile phone, so what he and touched on is a critical point, the more the british and american regimes feel they're losing control over the narrative, over public discourse, especially as the pro- palestine narrative gains traction, the more they resort to censorship, and we've seen that all over, and this isn't about silencing voices only, it's about stifling the truth and shaping the narrative to protect their own interests, 100%. so... you now, as this tide continues to shift in favor of those calling for justice, or at least some form of justice in palestine, the crackdown of freedom of speech will only intensify, and this makes the role of independent journalists very difficult, but

much more crucial, definitely, especially with with things also escalating in lebanon, we're going to keep seeing such things, we're even hearing calls of genocide right here in lebanon as well, just similar to what was happening in gaza from western journalists and zionist journalists, thank you very much sima for being on the show uh this week to expose how uh journalists are usually... news as puppets in the hands of big tech and big empires and uh big social media platforms. thanks million. ladies and gents, please stay tuned. next we have figures expos. ongoing strikes by israely occupation forces continue with aerial, land and maritime bombardments across the gaza strip, resulting in civilian casualties, displacement and the destruction of residential structures and public infrastructure. the situation in the northern gaza strip is... particularly devastating. according to the unira situation report number 137, issued on wednesday, september 18 of last week, on september 14, the israeli occupation issued yet another evacuation

order, affecting three neighborhoods in central bate lahya in northern gaza. according to the site management working group, this order affects two internally displaced collective centers and one makeshift site hosting a total of 850 people. the ongoing. the issuance of mass evacuation orders without ensuring that those displaced have safe and adequate places to stay in, is worsening the humanitaran crisis for hundreds of thousands of people, especially those who are repeatedly and forcibly displaced. as of september 16, according to the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, ochha, more than 55 evacuation orders remain in effect, covering about 86% of gaza. according to the un, at least 1.9 9 million people, or nine in 10 people across the gaza strip are internally displaced including people who have been repeatedly displaced, some up to 10 times or more. now

let us move to the most notable expos day voices for this week. in today's voices segment we tackle a question that should be on the minds of western citizens after witnessing the zinus israeli pager's terrorist attack on lebanon. what if they were? next, yet, rather than confronting this alarming possibility, many in the west seem to dismiss it entirely convinced that such attack could never happen to them. interestingly, candis owens recently posted this very question on tiktok, daring her audience to imagine the unimaginable and consider the consequences of complacency in the face of escalating global conflicts. and you can imagine that it has sending a shiver down a lot of people's spines today. you would think at the first... thing that the media in the west would be asking is, are we vulnerable to this sort of attack? that should have been the first question. i was, i was very surprised to see people, yay,

amazing, go, go. go and i really do believe and i tweeted this that americans we have suffered from privilege, which is to say that because we don't have any memory of fighting a war on our soil, we just don't think it could ever happen here. ladies and gents, with that we conclude our expose for tonight right here on press tv. please do follow our handle at exposeeptv on x, instagram, youtube and tiktok. stay tuned for more eye-opening investigations on expose the... truth is just a revelation away. to me, media is an integral part of politics.

unfortunately, media outlets in lebanon are predominantly controlled by the us, saudi arabia, and the owners of banks. while advising the young generation of journalists to be more independent and to increase their knowledge. economic and media based invasions pose significant dangers to our societies, so we should confront them.

it's a controller, your headlines on press tv, israel carries out new strikes across. lebanon killing more than 100 people as the country reels from the assassination of the hezbullah leader saysan nasrullah. iran's president says it is imperative to give decisive response to the criminal israeli regime following the assassination of the hezballah leader. and nearly one year into the us israely genocide in gaza, more palestinians are killed in the air and artillery strikes by the way.