The Tragic History of Brainwashing

How the media used fake news to downplay racial inequality

Dr. Cyril Franks prepares his colleague, Dr. Russell Willett, for a brainwashing experiment while on live television (BBC Tonight Programme, 1957 via Hidden Persuaders)

The public was already terrified of the communists.

In 1951, Edward Hunter sounded the alarm with his sensational book Brain-Washing in Red China. After dedicating years to his research, he had finally discovered “the terrifying methods that have put an entire nation under hypnotic…