Vocativ
 Vocativ  (Corporate media, Propagandist)          | |
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| Formation | 2013 |
| Founder | Mati Kochavi |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Interests | Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, VICE News |
| Membership | • Vivian Schiller • Adi Kochavi • Amit Weiss |
| "A mouthpiece for Israel’s armed forces... that's half soft porn and half IDF press releases". | |
Vocativ is an American media and technology company founded in 2013 by Mati Kochavi, a year after the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. It produces propagandist contents mixed with entertainment targeting a younger audience, that are distributed by a large number of corporate media.
Activities
Kochavi described the company as "a web intelligence package that harvests "web pages, social networking sites, video-sharing sites, microblogs, forums, blogs, and RSS feeds" into searchable results."[1] Another commentator termed it "a mouthpiece for Israel’s armed forces... that's half soft porn and half IDF press releases".[2]
In 2017, Vocativ laid off its "entire editorial staff in shift to video".[3] A 2013 story on it described it as "the experience of reading Vocativ is similar to that of reading VICE, another publication that targets a younger audience with eye-catching investigative work, but with stories that get their start in data."[4]
Propaganda stories
In January 2015, Vocativ was the first news organization to discover, verify and publish the video of the Paris grocery store gunman pledging allegiance to ISIS after the Charlie Hebdo attack. Vocativ also used its technology and expertise to locate the mother of "Boston Bomber" Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and interview her after her son's conviction in April 2015.[citation needed]
In April 2015, Vocativ discovered images, posted by Islamic State supporters, of billboards showing rules for being a "good Muslim woman." The rules mandate a style of burqa, also required by the Taliban, that covers the entire body and face with a mesh screen over the eyes. In an attempt to cast the rules as empowering, the signs sometimes contained slogans such as, "the Muslim woman is queen in her house." Another story, published the same month, determined that 45% of ISIS propaganda focuses on everyday issues of governance such as traffic police, charity work, the legal system, healthcare and agriculture. Stories on ISIS produced by Vocativ have been cited by publications like The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor.[5][6][7]
Vocativ produces brief documentaries for Morning Joe and other MSNBC shows as part of a partnership with the NBCUniversal News Group announced in February 2014. The segments included an exclusive report about terrorists recruiting in Tunisia's biggest resort, Gadhafi's guns being sold on Facebook groups in Libya and an exploration of Aleppo when it was declared the most war torn city on the globe. Each segment featured original details, characters and trends discovered using Vocativ's data expertise.[8]
Vocativ also produces data-based stories on topics such as Hollywood "blockbuster" revenues, music sales trends, rankings of US cities, the Grammy Awards, the Academy Awards and US presidential speeches.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Known member
1 of the 3 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Vivian Schiller | Corporate journalist with ties to the deep state |
References
- ↑ http://www.fastcompany.com/3020671/how-vocativ-mines-the-deep-web-for-storytelling
- ↑ http://pando.com/2014/07/16/vocativs-ridiculous-i-s-i-s-story-fails-to-mention-the-companys-deep-links-to-israeli-intelligence/
- ↑ https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2017/vocativ-lays-off-whole-editorial-staff-in-shift-to-video-update/
- ↑ https://mashable.com/archive/vocativ
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144209/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-37593832.html
- ↑ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/0302/Why-is-ISIS-threatening-Twitter-employees-with-lions-video
- ↑ http://www.aina.org/news/20150403180750.htm
- ↑ http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/07/8549981/showtime-vocativ
- ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/index-reveals-kind-music-fans-live-city-article-1.173459
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/07/best-cities-for-millennials_n_4233971.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150402091907/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-393933784.html
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/most-lgbt-friendly-cities_n_5480806.html |
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/grammys-race-problem_n_6663640.html
- ↑ http://www.today.com/popculture/most-thanked-person-oscar-speeches-isnt-god-its-steven-spielberg-2D8050480
- ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/have-presidential-speeches-gotten-less-sophisticated-over-time/381410/
- ↑ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/10/12/Presidential-speeches-have-lowered-in-sophistication-over-time/3121413159063/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094006/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-229624783.html
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