Western news is a Möbius strip: the same wire copy exits the back of the New York Times, re-enters through the front page of the Guardian, and is then cited by the State Department press release that the Times quotes the next morning. Call it the Liberal Circular Referencing Loop (LCRL). Once you see the seam you can’t un-see it.
State Dept → Atlantic Council → AP: the self-sealing pipeline
a. Seed – A “senior official” slips a 200-word steer to AP, Reuters, AFP before dawn.
b. Syndication – By breakfast 2 300 sites run the identical paragraph, each slapping on its own click-bait headline.
c. Boost – Google ranks the clones as “Highly Cited”; YouTube surfaces a CNN segment that just reads the wire aloud.
d. Launder – Atlantic Council issues a “policy brief” footnoting three of those copies, giving the claim scholarly paint.
e. Bless – At noon the State Department spokesman cites “multiple reports from respected outlets and think-tanks” without ever naming the original official.
f. Canonise – Next day the New York Times prints “U.S. Officials Say X, Multiple Sources Confirm” and hyperlinks back to CNN, the Atlantic Council … and its own yesterday’s story.
Proof? Put this into Chatgpt and see the response: “draw a picture of a Möbius strip with AP, Reuters, AFP at one end, State Department, Atlantic Council in the middle and CNN, MSNBC, FOX, New York Times at the other end”
