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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Government propaganda techniques portray Chicago as city at war with feds
Description: Nearly two months into President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign, social media feeds from his administration and its right-wing allies paint a grim picture of Chicago.
Highly produced videos depict heroic military raids. And social media influencers help to spread the message that Chicago is a city plagued by violence, at war with the federal government.
But the videos don’t always match the reality of what’s happening in communities across the Chicago area.
Sun-Times reporter Nader Issa has been analyzing these videos with the help of several experts, and he joins us now to discuss his findin...