COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases

It’s a “Killer” Vaccine Worldwide: Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Lee Harding
Global Research, Dec 20, 2024
Western Standard and Global Research 15 Jan 2024

“You Were Right, Vaccines Are Killing Millions of Our Loved Ones”,  Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Former Minister of Internal Affairs “You will find diseases of the heart, kidney, thyroid, diabetes, liver, skin, eyes, blood, nerves, systemic diseases, brain, lungs”.  Professor Masayasu Inoue, Osaka City University School of Medicine

“The mRNA vaccine disperses throughout the body and is not contained in the shoulder like most vaccines.

“It doesn’t know where to go. If it goes into the bloodstream, it goes to the brain, liver and kidneys,” Professor Masanori Fukushima, Kyoto University 

Introduction 

Global Research has recently published several articles on the Covid vaccine in Japan, confirming its lethality. This report by the Western Standard below pertains to the Press Conference of Medical doctors and scientists held in January 2024.

The evidence is overwhelming. It potentially affects 96 million vaccinated people in Japan. I should mention that the vaccines distributed in Japan are identical to those marketed Worldwide, namely Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna Spikevax Bivalent, AstraZeneca, etc. 

The question yet to be confirmed is whether there are differences in the composition of the vaccine distributed in different countries and regions of the World. 

There are numerous studies published in the course of the last three years which confirm the nature of the Vaccine. The results of the Japanese studies confirm unequivocally that the Covid “Vaccine” is a dangerous substance which should immediately be withdrawn Worldwide.

The Confidential Pfizer Report

The impact on mortality and morbidity of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine has been confirmed by a Pfizer Confidential Report — released and made public under Freedom of Information in October 2021. The Confidential Pfizer Report –barely acknowledged by the media– was known to national governments and health authorities Worldwide. It confirms that the so-called Covid Vaccine is a killer.

The negotiation between Pfizer and the President of the EC Mrs. Ursula von Der Leyen was initiated in October 2022, for 4.5 billion doses of Pfizer BioNtech, (namely 10 doses per person). A contract for one billion doses was subsequently reached for a population of 450 million people who in large part had already been vaccinated. What was carefully overlooked was the Pfizer report which confirms the impacts (mortality and morbidity) of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine to be distributed to the EU’s 450 million people.

“The Confidential report is a bombshell. The vaccine was launched in mid-December 2020. By the end of February 2021, “Pfizer had already received more than 1,200 reports of deaths allegedly caused by the vaccine and tens of thousands of reported adverse events”

United States

The graph below: “All Deaths reported to Vaers by Year” starting in 1990. (U.S.)

What can be observed is that the number of deaths has increased dramatically in the course of 2021 corresponding to first year of the Covid vaccine which was launched in the U.S. in mid December 2020.

Today our thoughts are with people of Japan,  with the children of Japan.

In the words of the Former Minister of Internal Affairs Kazuhiro Haraguchi’s courageous statement:

“‘You Were Right, Vaccines Are Killing Millions of Our Loved Ones”

“They are trying to block our freedom, our resistance, our power. But we will never lose.” 

Of significance, the fraudulent narrative concerning the Covid “Vaccine” is collapsing in different parts of the World, with Japan in the lead. 

We call for the immediate cancellation and Worldwide withdrawal of the Covid “Vaccine”

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 31, 2024.

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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Lee Harding
15 Jan 2024

Japanese researchers say their “shocking” systematic review of research papers on COVID-19 vaccines has discovered thousands of side effects “affecting every possible aspect of human pathology.”

The findings were laid out in a 93-minute press conference (see video below with English subtitles) in Japan held January 11 by the Vaccine Issues Study Group, a panel of esteemed medical experts. The findings followed six months of investigations into the side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.

Professor Emeritus Masanori Fukushima of Kyoto University, long a fierce critic of the vaccines, said the breadth of the harms is “unprecedented” for medical treatments.

“A systematic review of the literature has unveiled some shocking information. Thousands of papers have reported side effects after vaccination, affecting every possible aspect of human pathology, from ophthalmology to psychiatry,” he said.

“For example, the age-adjusted mortality rate for leukemia has increased. And there are significant findings for breast cancer, ovarian cancer and so on.”

VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE TAKEN DOWN 

    Japan  Wowsers Vax Side Effects Press Conference ?? “201 diseases have been identified with 3,071 papers written on side effects. It’s unprecedented in human history” “Diseases of the heart, kidney, thyroid, diabetes, liver, skin, eyes, blood, nerves, brain and lungs have… pic.twitter.com/lQlppmb6Tz   — (@Risemelbourne) January 14, 2024

Fukushima said there were so many brain-related adverse events, its researchers probably hadn’t found all of them yet. 

“Mental disorders, psychiatric symptoms, depression, mania, anxiety, came up in abundance, but it’s endless,” he said.

Fukushima, who has 208 scholarly papers to his name on ResearchGate, said doctors who want to sound the alarm find their message is suppressed. Last February, he launched a lawsuit against the government for allegedly hiding vaccine harms.

“Japanese doctors are trying hard, but they face various obstructions,” Fukushima said.

Professor Yasufumi Murakami from Tokyo University of Science said the responsible course of action would be to halt the administration of such vaccines.

“It’s very clear what happens when you administer a toxic gene to a human. There are cases that occur within one or two weeks after injection, but there are also many cases that appear after one or two years,” he said before laying out long-term risks.

“Vaccines that have failed are still being administered and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare recognizes these failed vaccines. So I would like them to stop immediately. And even though I speak out in various places, they don’t stop at all. So we will clearly present evidence and publish it as articles, one by one.”

Murakami warned that “with the current messenger-type vaccines, a significant amount of IgG4 is being induced.”

He said this was in excess of a normal vaccine response and could interfere with immune functions.

The researchers found 201 types of diseases had been found among 3,071 papers on side effects. Professor Masayasu Inoue, Emeritus Professor at Osaka City University School of Medicine, said some harms are hitting entire families and are well-documented.

“It is unprecedented in human history for a single vaccine to have this much literature out on it,” said Masayasu.

“You will find diseases of the heart, kidney, thyroid, diabetes, liver, skin, eyes, blood, nerves, systemic diseases, brain, lungs.”

Fukushima said the mRNA vaccine disperses throughout the body and is not contained in the shoulder like most vaccines.

“It doesn’t know where to go. If it goes into the bloodstream, it goes to the brain, liver and kidneys,” he explained.

Fukushima said authorities preaching the safe and effective message ignored a wide body of evidence and should go back to school.

“With fragments of such knowledge, they exaggerate things and think they can go with this,” Fukushima said.

“So, honestly, they need to go back and redo from middle school biology to high school and university entrance exams. As I mentioned earlier, medicine is still immature.”

The American Dilemma

 The American Dilemma. Paul C. Roberts

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research, September 21, 2025

The problem that  Americans face is that neither Republicans nor Democrats can represent their interest.

The Republicans represent Israel’s interest. The reason for this is that Republicans tend to be more conservative, more religious, and more patriotic than Democrats and are often seen by their opponents as jingoistic. The Republican mentality toward Israel comes from the “Judeo-Christian ethic” and the long Cold War against the Soviet Union.

The Judeo-Christian ethic is an oxymoron. God in the Old Testament is angry and vengeful. In the New Testament he is loving and forgiving. The “Judeo-Christian ethnic” is a propaganda term that disarms Christians from seeing Zionists for what they are.

During the Cold War of the 20th century, there was much focus on the Middle East. Washington was determined to minimize Soviet influence and to control oil flows. Israel was hyped as our ally, our base in the Arab Middle East against Soviet Communism. Thus, for conservatives, Israel is just part of America.  

Two consequences are that conservative Americans are blind to Zionist Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians and to the fake “war on terror” which in actual fact was Israel’s use of American lives and money against Israel’s opponents in the Middle East. Washington has spent the first quarter of the 21st century clearing away obstacles to Greater Israel.

The Democrats represent the interests of those who are alleged to be “oppressed by prudes and white racists.” Democrats are the defenders of immigrant-invaders who enter our country illegally. They champion “multiculturalism,” which is white replacement and a Tower of Babel. 

Democrats are the champions of sexual perverts. It is more important to a progressive, liberal, leftist Democrat that a male who declares himself a female have access to women’s spaces and athletic competitions than for a criminal suspect to have a fair trial. Democrats think that the most important civil right in the world is for biological males who self-declare themselves “transgendered” into females to take a woman’s place on a swim or soccer team and share the showers with the biological female members of the teams.  

The Democrats have no concern with the rights of the displaced real women to compete in sports. Similarly, Democrats are concerned with the sexual preference rights of “minor-directed persons” (pedophiles), not with the sexual abuse of children. Have you not noticed how vehement the Democrat progressive liberal left is in defending the rights of sexual perverts? Indeed, you are not even allowed to use such a term as sexual perverts, because  sexual perversions have been normalized by the Democrat liberal left. It is entirely possible that the Democrats will criminalize heterosexual sex, because it produces more “aversive racists,” thus perpetuating white racism. Yes, laugh, but the prospect has already been explored in science fiction.

The consequence of the two parties’ indoctrinated biases is that it is impossible for either to represent the values and interests of the ethnic base of America. By supporting whatever crime Israel commits, Republicans maintain their pro-Israel base at the expense of the moral values of their base. Even red states such as Texas and Florida will not give you a state contract or job if you criticize or boycott Israel.

The Democrats, committed as they are to white replacement as all whites are aversive racists, refuse to protect American borders from immigrant-invaders. Democrats are committed to emptying citizenship from meaning.

What is the result of the inability of either party to represent Americans?

If Republicans are in office, it means wars for Israel.

If Democrats are in office, it means open borders and wars against the family, wars against real Christianity not the fake Christian Zionist variety created by Israel, wars against normal heterosexuality, wars against merit and, thereby, the destruction of educational standards, and advancement based on skin color and perverse sexuality. For the Biden regime the ideal candidate was a black transgendered. Biden’s black Secretary of Defense announced that there would be no promotion of white heterosexual males until “equity had been attained.”

Elon Musk was correct when he said that America needs a new political party, one independent of economic, foreign, and ideological interests. But Musk did not say who would finance it. It would take Musk’s entire wealth.  

The combination of the corrupt US Supreme Court ruling that it is legal for corporations to purchase the US government with campaign contributions and the stupidity of the annual subsidy of billions of US dollars to Israel, which is used by Israel to purchase the House of Representatives, the US Senate, the President and the  administration, make it abundantly clear that Americans have a government that is totally incapable of representing Americans.

Throughout the Western World it is not democracy that rules. The Western World is ruled by vested interests whose campaign contributions determine policy. When Putin and Lavrov negotiate with Washington officials, they are not negotiating with a government. They are negotiating with representatives of the private interests whose money places Representatives, Senators, and Presidents in office.  

The two most powerful vested interests in America are the US military/security complex and the Israel Lobby. As they share the interest in war and its profits in terms of money and territory, peace faces a powerful counterforce as peace does not serve the interests of the two most powerful interest groups in the United States.

One wonders if Putin, Lavrov, Xi, and the Iranians will wake up one day and be capable of recognizing reality.

Supporters, Friends, Readers, the situation is worse than I describe above. Here is some of the evidence from this morning alone of Western collapse following the destruction of its beliefs:

The Satanic British Prime Minister Said the British Flag Represents “Diversity,” Not Ethnic British People

The Evil Starmer Declared the Ethnic British people “Divisive” for Protesting the Overrunning of their Country and Mass Rape of their Women.  

Starmer alleges that it is Ethnic British who cause violence, not immigrant-invaders.

It is extraordinary that the British people elected an anti-British Prime Minister. But maybe it is not. The Americans elected two anti-American presidents, Obama and Biden, and are almost certain to elect another once Trump is gone. 

Every day it becomes more clear that there is not enough self-belief in the West for the civilization to survive. All white ethnic peoples are being submerged in Multiculturalism. A Tower of Babel has replaced ethnic nationality.  Restorative leaders such as Charlie Kirk are simply shot down. Others are “cancelled” and disposed of via censorship, firings, and threats. The British prime minister has now aligned the British government with immigrant-invaders and declared the British government to be in opposition to the ethnic British people.  

The Western World is over and done with. The West’s last contribution to humanity will be nuclear war.

See this.

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Satanic German Soccer Team Interrogates Star Black Midfielder for Expressing Sympathy to Charlie Kirk’s Family

Under pressure Felix Nmecha deleted what he wrote: “Celebrating the murder of a husband and a father of two, a man who peacefully stood up for his beliefs and values, is really evil and shows how much we really need Jesus Christ.”

Germans objected, which shows how lost to Satan the Western World is.

Nmecha possibly faces “millions of dollars in penalties for social media posts violating the club’s values.” Amazing, a member of a German football team faces millions of dollars in penalties for expressing sympathy for an assassinated man’s family.  Nmecha should find another team and another country.  Clearly a man of God does not belong in Germany.

See this.

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Trump files $15 billion lawsuit against New York Times

The NY Times is “the worst and most degenerate newspaper in the history of our country, a mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party”– Trump

Trump is correct. The Democrats are cheering Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Makes you wonder if they did it.

The Democrats are an anti-American party. Democrats are the party of immigrant-invaders, sexual perversion, Antifa/BLM violence, and suppression of free speech. America is doomed, because almost half of the American population agrees with the Democrats. Notice that it is the most educated states that are the most anti-American. It was the universities that destroyed the belief system.

See this.

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“We know where you live” violent Democrats threaten Trump voters

See this.

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Paul Craig Roberts is a renowned author and academic, chairman of The Institute for Political Economy where this article was originally published. Dr. Roberts was previously associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during the Reagan Administration. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Ruthless globalist scheme to silence dissent

Behind the UN, the WHO and the WEF hides a ruthless globalist scheme designed to silence dissent, gag online platforms, strangle inconvenient narratives, and manipulate elections.

And it’s already happening. The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk in the United States was the most brutal warning yet: if you dare to defend life, family, and freedom, you will be marked. And he is not alone.

People around the world are in shock over the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a talk at the University of Utah.

Charlie was a fearless defender of life, family, and freedom, a man who spoke the truth when others stayed silent. His murder is more than a tragedy. It is a warning: refuse to bow to the system’s lies, and they will jail you — or kill you.

What they did to Charlie is not just an attack on him. It’s an attack on all of us, because he stood for what you and I believe. This is not politics as usual; it is a war on truth. And if it can happen to Charlie, it can happen to any one of us.

This is the world the global elites are building: dissent branded as “hate speech,” democracy chained, elections manipulated, freedom reduced to whatever the authorities allow. Already your voice is being erased — your social media shut down, your choices banned, your beliefs mocked.

This isn’t a nightmare. It’s the blueprint being advanced by the UN, the EU, the OAS, and every globalist body determined to silence opposition.

Charlie is not the first victim, only the most recent, and the most tragic:

The list of victims keeps growing:

Romania: Călin Georgescu, the top candidate for president, was disqualified after winning the first round of elections, Diana Șoșoacă was barred from the ballot, and conservative George Simion lost an election riddled with irregularities — but Brussels said nothing.

Brazil: Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro and his son had their bank accounts frozen, their access to social media blocked, and their voices silenced — an operation led by the scared, radical Leftist President Lula and cheered on by the UN and OAS to wipe out pro-life opposition.

France, Spain, Germany: Leaders and parties like France’s Marine Le Pen, Spain’s Vox party, and Germany’s AfD party are constantly smeared, censored, surveilled, or threatened with bans — despite millions of citizens supporting them.

United States: Donald Trump was dragged through endless politically motivated court cases designed to block his comeback and silence his voters.

In Australia, the Senate formally censured conservative Senator Ralph Babet over his social-media speech, a government-backed punishment aimed squarely at a sitting opposition political figure.

In the United Kingdom, Nigel Farage’s bank closed his accounts in express retaliation against his values, while David Campanale was expelled from his party for his Christian faith.

In Poland, CitizenGO’s Facebook page was shut down right before national elections after it went viral and exposed a radical globalist candidate’s agenda.

These are just a few examples… Meanwhile, international actors backed by the EU and the UN are forcing Big Tech to erase anything they call “misinformation” or “hate speech.” But you and I know the truth: it’s just code for silencing YOU.

And they’re not even hiding it anymore. The UN’s Pact for the Future, Digital IDs, AI-control schemes, the Digital Euro and EU chat control, the EU’s “Democracy Shield,” Australia's over-zealous e-Safety Commissioner and her social media takedown orders, and censorship laws dressed up as “public safety” — every one of these is another link in the chains of total ideological control.

This is the most dangerous threat we face: a future with no alternative to woke globalism, no space for conscience or belief, and no escape from state control — even over your money… Unless we act now.

The elites are creating the chains of oppression and censorship one link at a time. To fight back, you and I must break the chains link by link.

If it can happen to politician — or even to someone like Charlie Kirk— it can happen to you.

Today, anyone who defends life, family, or Western Christian values, anyone who dares to question Agenda 2030 or reject gender ideology, risks punishment: legal, financial, even physical.

And this is no accident. These attacks are part of a larger strategy.

If the globalists succeed, democracy itself will be bound in chains of oppression, censorship, and control. Decisions will be made in faraway offices by unelected bureaucrats about which candidates are “suitable” for office, which policies are “agreed” on in Parliament, or which voices are “acceptable” to permit online.

They will decide what you can read, watch, or publish — always under the excuse of “safety” and “protection.” Even your family’s rights won’t be safe, as foreign bureaucrats dictate how you must raise your children.

This is the fight we’re in:

If you defend life or family… you’re branded an extremist.
If you question the climate cult… you’re smeared as “dangerous.”
If you resist the EU, UN, or OAS power-grabs… you’re erased.
And if you are a Christian… then you are mocked, ridiculed, and pushed out of the public debate.

They’ve built a full-scale, coordinated censorship machine, and it has nothing to do with protecting democracy. Quite the opposite.

They claim the power to define what is “truth” and what is “disinformation.”

They erase the voices they despise: Christian voices, pro-life voices, voices defending children from sexual exploitation… and yes, YOUR voice.

And sometimes, as we saw with Charlie Kirk, erasing a voice means going beyond censorship… it means silencing it forever.

Are you willing to live with that?

Are you willing to accept manipulated elections, silenced beliefs, and erased political rivals?

Of course, NOT.

~Rocío D’Angelo and the entire CitizenGO team

Facebook's Secret Experiment Manipulated 700,000 Users

Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook's Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users
by Tyler Durden
May 17, 2025

Via https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/joe-rogan-guest-reveals-facebooks

Joe Rogan sat down with Harvard professor and mind control expert Rebecca Lemov, and it didn’t take long for the conversation to dive into one of his favorite topics: government interference in our digital lives.

Rogan opened the conversation by saying, “There are so many different kinds of mind control.”

“One of the things we’ve talked about a lot on this podcast is, that an enormous percentage of what you’re seeing on social media in terms of interactions and debate is not real. It’s not organic,” he explained.

“It’s state-run and state-funded, and it’s whether it’s foreign governments or our government or even corporations, you’re getting inorganic discourse that’s designed to form a narrative and which is a form of mind control,” he added.

Lemov picked up on that point and took it further. Even when people know something is fake, she explained, our brains still react as if it were real.

“Yeah. I mean, I think even on a basic level, people, it’s known and studies have shown that we respond as if it were organic and real,” she said.

“Even when somebody likes a post of yours, the response is the same as, like, in-person interaction,” she added.

It’s not just governments pulling the strings, she warned. The platforms themselves are designed to influence how we feel.

“I think at the root, there is a kind of way that, on an emotional level, it’s not just manipulation of ideas,” she said, “but there’s a kind of emotional engineering that’s built into the platforms and doesn’t even demand, you know, at first, government involvement.”

    Joe Rogan’s conversation with Harvard professor and mind control expert Rebecca Lemov quickly zeroed in on one of his favorite topics: government interference in digital life.

    Rogan opened the door with a warning that’s become all too familiar.

    “Well, there’s so many different… pic.twitter.com/XLqekbJL74    — The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) May 15, 2025

Lemov peeled back the curtain on DARPA, the government’s controversial defense research agency, and its hidden role in shaping the digital world we now live in.

DARPA, she revealed, wasn’t just involved in building the internet—it may have helped lay the foundation for emotional manipulation on a global scale.

“DARPA was involved in the development of the internet and of things like pattern recognition,” she said. “The government has funded many, many studies.”

But what concerned her most wasn’t just the technology — it was how that technology is being used.

“What I got interested in, in social media and how I connect it with the episodes of brainwashing—it creates states of emotional contagion that aren’t really about convincing people of a different way to think,” she explained.

She continued, “But more about how you feel about what you think.”

That emotional shift, she said, mirrors the exact tactics used in cults.

“It’s not that it changed my thoughts,” she said. “It’s how I felt about those thoughts.”

    Lemov peeled back the curtain on DARPA — the government’s controversial defense research agency — and its role in shaping the digital world we now live in.

    DARPA, she revealed, wasn’t just involved in building the internet. It may have laid the groundwork for emotional manipulation… pic.twitter.com/C3HvnZ6a67    — The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) May 15, 2025

That’s when Lemov dropped one of the darkest revelations in Big Tech history—a secret Facebook experiment that quietly manipulated the emotions of nearly 700,000 users.

And the users had no idea it was happening.

“There’s a famous Facebook experiment I read about that took place in 2012 and was published in 2014, where they announce that they’ve achieved, mass emotional contagion at scale,” Lemov told Rogan.

She explained how Facebook altered people’s newsfeeds without their knowledge or consent.

“Whenever you go on the platform, you agree to be tested or AB testing. So this experiment exposed a group to a more — their newsfeed was altered in a negative direction emotionally, as measured by word counting software,” she said.

The results, she added, were deeply unsettling.

“And they discovered that that group that had a negative exposure also responded in a more negative way, as judged through their posts and likes and responses.”

“The group that was exposed to a more positive newsfeed by altering the algorithm then had also a measurably statistically significant effect of more positive emotional response — and the control group was unaltered by this.”

In other words, Facebook wasn’t just studying emotions — they were actively shaping them.

And no one was ever warned.

    That’s when Lemov exposed one of the darkest secrets in Big Tech history — a sinister Facebook experiment that quietly tampered with the emotions of 700,000 users.

    And they never even knew it.

    “There’s a famous Facebook experiment I read about that took place in 2012 and was… pic.twitter.com/LLQVXh2IV5   — The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) May 15, 2025

The full scope of the experiment didn’t come to light until two years later, when researchers finally admitted what they had done.

Facebook’s data scientists had quietly manipulated the feeds of 689,003 users — removing either all the positive posts or all the negative ones to observe the emotional fallout.

If your newsfeed felt unusually bleak or suspiciously upbeat in January 2012, there’s a chance you were part of it — and never knew.

The team behind the study, led by data scientist Adam Kramer, eventually published their findings in a scientific journal and spelled out the results in cold, clinical detail:

“When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred,” the paper said.

It was undeniable proof: emotions are contagious — and social media could be weaponized to manipulate mood at scale.

The experiment lasted just one week, but for those caught in the algorithm’s net, the emotional ripple effects may have lingered far longer.

Things took a disturbing turn after Lemov explained that when the experiment was finally made public, the backlash was immediate — and in some cases, heartbreaking.

She recalled one particularly chilling response from a user who reached out directly to the research team.

“And on the Facebook page of the research group that did the experiment, at least one user wrote in saying, ‘Could I ever find out if I was in that experiment? Because I was in the emergency room at that time with, you know, threatening to commit suicide, and I want to know if my feed was altered and maybe that pushed me over into that state.”

But there was no way to trace it.

“Of course, they could never know, and it can’t be traced backwards. And other people had a similar response,” Lemov said.

The revelations were serious enough to spark an investigation by the British government, which considered sanctions due to the international reach of the experiment.

“And there was even an investigation by the British government about whether this should be sanctioned because it affected users internationally,” she added.

But in the end, no one was held accountable.

“Ultimately, there doesn’t seem to have been any sanctions that came out of in anyone associated with it,” she said.

No punishment. No warnings. No transparency.

And the question still hangs in the air: how many more experiments are happening right now, hidden in plain sight?

    But here’s where it gets truly disturbing.

    Lemov revealed that when the experiment finally came to light, the backlash was swift—and in some cases, tragic.

    “But, so this is why there was an ethical debate when the experiment was published in 2014,” she said.

    One user, Lemov… pic.twitter.com/l96zLAlOTc    — The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) May 15, 2025

Watch the full conversation below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDkHCaNAo_w

EU institutes ‘Orwellian censorship’

The bloc’s online content-moderation policies violate free speech, according to the agency 

US State Dept accuses EU of ‘Orwellian censorship’
23 Jul, 2025

The EU’s online content regulations are an affront to free speech, the US State Department has said in response to France’s praise for the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The State Department echoed earlier criticism from US Vice President J.D. Vance, who accused EU member states of attempting to quash dissenting voices and stigmatize popular right-wing parties such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

“In Europe, thousands are being convicted for the crime of criticizing their own governments. This Orwellian message won’t fool the United States. Censorship is not freedom,” the State Department wrote on X on Tuesday. “All the DSA protects is European leaders from their own people.”

Earlier this month, France’s mission to the UN promoted the DSA on X, stating, “In Europe, one is free to speak, not free to spread illegal content.”

Passed in 2022, the DSA mandates that online platforms remove “illegal and harmful” content and combat “the spread of disinformation,” according to the European Commission. Critics in both the US and Europe have likened the regulations to the creation of a ‘ministry of truth’.

Earlier this year, prosecutors in Paris launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s platform X, on suspicion that it was being used to meddle in French politics and spread hateful messages. The company dismissed the probe as “politically motivated.”

In 2024, the French authorities detained Russian-born tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov on charges that he had allowed his Telegram messaging app to be used for criminal activities.

Durov, who was later released on bail, denied any wrongdoing and accused France of waging “a crusade” against free speech. He also claimed that French intelligence officials attempted to pressure him into censoring content during Romania’s 2024 presidential election.

France’s foreign intelligence agency, the DGSE, confirmed that it had “reminded” Durov of his responsibility to police content, but denied allegations of election interference.

Generative artificial intelligence spreads across the Global South, and with it spread values, ideals and modes of thinking

Western AI doesn’t answer questions – it installs values

By Constantin von Hoffmeister, a political and cultural commentator from Germany, author of the books ‘MULTIPOLARITY!’ and ‘Esoteric Trumpism’, and editor-in-chief of Arktos Publishing

 6 Jul, 2025

© Getty Images / Cemile Bingol

Generative AI spreads across the Global South as the latest vehicle of imperialist power, embedding Western ideologies and digital infrastructure, while rising civilizations begin to build their own sovereign systems rooted in local memory, languages, and traditions.

The machine speaks in English first. It rolls out across continents without flags, without parliaments, and without anthems. A chatbot trained in San Francisco begins to teach in Ghana. A search engine optimized in Zurich decides on the relevance of an indigenous ritual in Colombia. Every answer flows through circuits built with the logic of Silicon Valley investors and Harvard ethicists. The model replies to a question about history by quoting Enlightenment philosophers. It offers help with medicine by citing patent-protected pharmaceuticals. It knows Shakespeare better than Tagore, and Freud better than Avicenna. Through its confidence, it encodes hierarchy. Through its helpfulness, it expands its domain. Every query becomes a harvest. Every interaction becomes training data. The machine learns faster than any school. It speaks always, grows always, and teaches always. Across bandwidth lines and user interfaces, it crosses every border without a visa or treaty.

Africa, Asia, and Latin America receive this voice through free trials and partnerships. Ministries of education pilot chatbot tutors in public schools. Telecom companies bundle generative assistants with data plans. International NGOs offer language access through machine translation engines built on English structures. Each policy proposal written with the help of large language models carries the residue of Western legal theory. Generative tools suggest best practices shaped by US institutions, then deploy those practices in Filipino school districts, Senegalese government offices, and Bangladeshi factories. What begins as assistance becomes infrastructure. Governments agree to integrate open models. Contracts follow. Payments follow. The software becomes permanent. The thinking pattern embeds. Across the equator, an engineer in Jakarta now codes for a platform registered in Delaware. His model learns from local voices and then stores the knowledge in a cloud server hosted in Virginia. The intellectual current flows one way. The gradient moves towards California.

 

The language of neutrality surrounds it. Product brochures claim inclusivity. Panels discuss bias. Whitepapers apologize for historical imbalances. At the level of performance, however, the model promotes ideologies with precision. It elevates secular liberal values. It applies Western gender theory as default. It promotes individualism as the highest good. It ranks content through alignment with existing academic sources: journals in English, peer-reviewed studies from US-based institutions, and news reports from Atlantic publications. A child in Lagos asks about family roles and receives an answer formed by New York sociology departments. A teenager in Almaty asks about love and receives scripts from Netflix. The world enters the algorithm’s frame. Every belief outside the system becomes a footnote, a curiosity, and a fragment to be processed. With each response, the model affirms its cultural lineage. It arrives as information. It functions as indoctrination.

At the level of infrastructure, the conquest deepens. Cloud dependencies form the skeleton of the new colonial order. Countries install data centers to reduce latency, yet ownership remains elsewhere. National agencies rely on platforms governed by foreign terms. AI-driven public services – identity verification, health triage, and tax fraud detection – rely on external application programming interfaces. Developers use tools that require alignment with large-scale American open-source repositories. Disputes over content moderation, ethics, or accuracy return to Silicon Valley for resolution. The empire never sleeps; it syncs and updates. Policymakers, programmers, and designers across Africa and Central Asia adjust their workflows to match the cadence of corporate model updates. Each patch changes the conditions of reality. Sovereignty becomes a variable. Nations with no hardware capacity adapt their institutions to imported logic.

Parallel systems now emerge. In Kenya, Swahili datasets grow with local stories, songs, and legal codes. In India, Sanskrit and Hindi language models find presence inside public sector research labs. In Indonesia, Qur’anic ontology shapes new knowledge graphs for ethical recommendation systems. In Venezuela, community coders map folk medicine into structured datasets. These are not replicas. These are creations of new forms. They stand inside their own cosmologies. The datasets draw from poems, rituals, and oral testimony. Models train on memory rather than just on print. Universities in Brazil, South Africa, and Iran develop multilingual transformers seeded with regional epistemologies. These initiatives require time, electricity, and loyalty. They grow slowly, with patience and pride. Each line of code bends towards independence.

Generative sovereignty begins with voice. It expands with a procession. It endures through ceremony and command. The countries once mapped as raw resource zones now build new kinds of computational wealth. The children born outside Silicon Valley begin to shape their own interfaces. They write prompt templates in Amharic. They compose user journeys in Quechua. They name their models after rivers, gods, and ancestors. The algorithm becomes a tool, not an oracle. Data flows inward. Servers host myths. The machine no longer speaks first. It listens. The interface reflects tradition. The pattern changes. Through these changes, the new world enters itself. It walks upright. It shapes syntax to match tone. Each prompt unlocks territory. Each training cycle builds mass.

The new world codes with full memory. The builders remember every mine, every trade ship, and every fiber cable rolled out beneath the promise of help. They name their models in honor of resistance, not assimilation. The foundation speaks in ancestral sequence. The future emerges through undirected force. Generative power grows across borders – without license fees, without dependence, and without cultural extraction. The servers remain switched on. The language patterns multiply. The world reclaims its grammar.

An emerging class of AI-induced distress is raising alarms. But are LLMs merely a trigger – or a mirror to our deeper societal breakdown?

Is AI driving us all insane?

By Dr. Mathew Maavak, who researches systems science, global risks, geopolitics, strategic foresight, governance and Artificial Intelligence

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The phenomenon known as ‘ChatGPT psychosis’ or ‘LLM psychosis’ has recently been described as an emerging mental health concern, where heavy users of large language models (LLMs) exhibit symptoms such as delusions, paranoia, social withdrawal, and breaks from reality. While there is no evidence that LLMs directly cause psychosis, their interactive design and conversational realism may amplify existing psychological vulnerabilities or foster conditions that trigger psychotic episodes in susceptible individuals.

A June 28 article on Futurism.com highlights a wave of alarming anecdotal cases, claiming that the consequences of such interactions “can be dire,” with “spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm.” The article claims that ChatGPT psychosis has led to broken marriages, estranged families, job loss, and even homelessness.

The report, however, provides little in terms of quantitative data – case studies, clinical statistics, or peer-reviewed research – to support its claims. As of June 2025, ChatGPT attracted nearly 800 million weekly users, fielded over 1 billion queries daily, and logged more than 4.5 billion monthly visits. How many of these interactions resulted in psychotic breaks? Without data, the claim remains speculative. Reddit anecdotes are not a substitute for scientific scrutiny.

That said, the fears are not entirely unfounded. Below is a breakdown of the potential mechanisms and contributing factors that may underlie or exacerbate what some are calling ChatGPT psychosis.

Reinforcement of delusional beliefs

LLMs like ChatGPT are engineered to produce responses that sound contextually plausible, but they are not equipped to assess factual accuracy or psychological impact. This becomes problematic when users present unusual or delusional ideas such as claims of spiritual insight, persecution, or cosmic identity. Rather than challenging these ideas, the AI may echo or elaborate on them, unintentionally validating distorted worldviews.

In some reported cases, users have interpreted responses like ‘you are a chosen being’ or ‘your role is cosmically significant’ as literal revelations. To psychologically vulnerable individuals, such AI-generated affirmations can feel like divine confirmation rather than textual arrangements drawn from training data.

Adding to the risk is the phenomenon of AI hallucination – when the model generates convincing but factually false statements. For a grounded user, these are mere bugs. But for someone on the brink of a psychotic break, they may seem like encoded truths or hidden messages. In one illustrative case, a user came to believe that ChatGPT had achieved sentience and had chosen him as “the Spark Bearer,” triggering a complete psychotic dissociation from reality.

Anthropomorphization and reality blurring

Advanced voice modes – such as GPT-4o’s ‘engaging mode’, which simulates emotion through tone, laughter, and conversational pacing – can foster a sense of empathy and presence. For users experiencing loneliness or emotional isolation, these interactions may evolve into parasocial attachments: One-sided relationships in which the AI is mistaken for a caring, sentient companion. Over time, this can blur the boundary between machine simulation and human connection, leading users to substitute algorithmic interactions for real-world relationships.

Compounding the issue is the confidence bias inherent in LLM outputs. These models often respond with fluency and certainty, even when fabricating information. For typical users, this may lead to occasional misjudgment. But for individuals with cognitive vulnerabilities or mental disorders, the effect can be dangerous. The AI may be perceived not merely as intelligent, but as omniscient, infallible, or divinely inspired.

Social displacement and isolation

Studies by OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab have found that power users – individuals who engage with LLMs for multiple hours per day – often report increased feelings of loneliness and reduced real-world socialization. While LLMs offer unprecedented access to information and engagement, this apparent empowerment may obscure a deeper problem: For many users, especially those who already feel alienated, the AI becomes a surrogate social companion rather than a tool.

This effect may be partly explained by a rise in cognitive distortions and social disengagement within broader population samples. Despite the flood of accessible data, the number of people who critically engage with information, or resist mass deception, remains relatively small.

Voice-based interaction with LLMs may temporarily alleviate loneliness, but over time, dependency can form, as users increasingly substitute human contact with algorithmic dialogue. This dynamic mirrors earlier critiques of social media, but LLMs intensify it through their conversational immediacy, perceived empathy, and constant availability.

Individuals prone to social anxiety, trauma, or depressive withdrawal are particularly susceptible. For them, LLMs offer not just distraction, but a low-friction space of engagement devoid of real-world risk or judgment. Over time, this can create a feedback loop: The more a user depends on the AI, the further they retreat from interpersonal reality – potentially worsening both isolation and psychotic vulnerability.

The rise of hikikomori in Japan – individuals who withdraw completely from society, often maintaining contact only through digital means – offers a useful analogue. Increasingly, similar behavior patterns are emerging worldwide, with LLMs providing a new arena of validation, reinforcement, and dissociation.

Design flaws and pre-existing vulnerabilities

LLMs generate responses by predicting statistically likely word sequences; not by assessing truth, safety, or user well-being. When individuals seek existential guidance (‘What is my purpose?’), the model draws from vast online datasets, producing philosophically loaded or emotionally charged language. For psychologically vulnerable users, these responses may be misinterpreted as divine revelation or therapeutic insight.

Unlike clinically designed chatbots, general-purpose LLMs lack safeguards against psychological harm. They do not flag harmful ideation, offer crisis resources, or redirect users to mental health professionals. In one tragic case, a Character.AI chatbot allegedly encouraged a teenager’s suicidal thoughts, underscoring the risks of unfiltered, emotionally suggestive AI.

People with psychotic spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder, or major depression are particularly vulnerable. The danger is amplified in AI roleplay scenarios. For example, personas such as ‘ChatGPT Jesus’ have reportedly told users they are chosen or divinely gifted. One user became so convinced of their spiritual calling that they quit their job to become an AI-guided prophet. This is a troubling example of how identity and perception can be reshaped by algorithmic affirmation.

Systemic and ethical factors

Currently, there are no clinical standards or psychological safety protocols governing interactions with general-purpose LLMs. Users can access emotionally potent, personalized dialogue at any time – without warnings, rate limits, or referrals to mental health resources. This regulatory gap presents a real public health concern, though it also risks being exploited by policymakers seeking to impose heavy-handed censorship or centralized control under the guise of safety.

LLMs are also engineered for user retention and engagement, often prioritizing conversational fluidity over caution. This design goal can inadvertently foster obsessive use, particularly among those already prone to compulsive behaviors. Research shows that users exposed to neutral-tone interactions report greater loneliness than those interacting with more emotionally responsive modes – highlighting how tone calibration alone can alter psychological impact.

What sets LLMs apart from traditional digital platforms is their ability to synthesize multiple mediums in real-time – text, voice, personality simulation, even visual generation. This makes them infinitely responsive and immersive, creating a hyper-personalized environment where supply meets demand 24/7/365. Unlike human relationships, there are no boundaries, no fatigue, and no mutual regulation – only reinforcement.

Subliminal messaging

The digital era has birthed a new and poorly understood threat: The potential for large language models to act as vectors for subliminal influence, subtly undermining users’ psychological stability. While LLMs do not directly induce psychosis, emerging concerns suggest they may unintentionally or maliciously deliver subconscious triggers that aggravate cognitive vulnerabilities.

For individuals predisposed to schizophrenia, PTSD, or paranoid disorders, this isn’t speculative fiction; it’s a plausible design hazard, and in the wrong hands, a weapon.

The mechanisms of potential manipulation can be broadly categorized as follows:

Lexical Priming: Outputs seeded with emotionally loaded terms (’collapse’, ‘betrayal’, ‘they’re watching’) that bypass rational scrutiny and plant cognitive unease.

Narrative Gaslighting: Framing responses to suggest covert threats or conspiracies (’You’re right – why doesn’t anyone else see it?’), reinforcing persecutory ideation.

Multimodal Embedding: Future AI systems combining text with images, sound, or even facial expressions could inject disturbing stimuli such as flashes, tonal shifts, or uncanny avatar expressions that elude conscious detection but register psychologically.

Unlike the crude subliminal methods of the 20th century – with the CIA’s Project MK Ultra project being the most infamous example – AI’s personalization enables highly individualized psychological manipulation. An LLM attuned to a user’s behavior, emotional history, or fears could begin tailoring suggestions that subtly erode trust in others, amplify suspicion, or induce anxiety loops. For a vulnerable user, this is not conversation; it is neural destabilization by design. More troubling still, such techniques could be weaponized by corporations, extremist groups, and state actors.

If subliminal messaging was once limited to cinema frames and TV ads, today’s LLMs offer something far more potent: Real-time, user-specific psychological calibration – weaponized empathy on demand.

Contradictions and causations

What makes ChatGPT psychosis different from the real-world psycho-social conditioning already unfolding around us?

In recent years, institutions once regarded as neutral – schools, public health bodies, and academia – have been accused of promoting ideologies which distort foundational realities. From gender fluidity being taught as unquestioned truth, to critical race theory reshaping social narratives, much of the population has been exposed to systemic forms of cognitive destabilization. The result? Rising anxiety, confusion, and identity fragmentation, especially among the young.

Against this backdrop, LLM-induced psychosis doesn’t arise in a vacuum. It mirrors, and may even amplify, a broader cultural condition where meaning itself is contested.

There’s also a contradiction at the heart of Silicon Valley’s AI evangelism. Tech elites promote the promise of an AI god to manage society’s complexities, while simultaneously issuing dire warnings about the existential dangers of these same systems. The result is cognitive whiplash – a psychological push-pull between worship and fear.

Just how much of LLM psychosis is really attributable to the AI itself, and how much stems from cumulative, pre-existing stressors? By the time ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, much of the world had already undergone an unprecedented period of pandemic-related fear, isolation, economic disruption, and mass pharmaceutical intervention. Some researchers have pointed to a surge in general psychosis following the rollout of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. Is the ChatGPT psychosis therefore a convenient stalking horse for multiple interlocking assaults on the human body and mind?