Welcome to The Propagandist
Summary
Host Aileen Brown explores the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict ten years later, revealing how the company’s private security contractors waged a covert narrative war. Using internal documents, she exposes a campaign designed to fracture activist alliances and stoke local fears against protesters. This episode of The Propagandist details how corporate interests manipulated public perception to undermine the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s historic movement.
Topics discussed
Ten years since the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's movement
Internal documents reveal efforts to undermine the tribe
The battle as a war over whose story would win
Security contractors' narrative campaign to create doubt
Introduction to The Propagandist miniseries
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