The Great Reset: Selling digital IDs – Building 'trust', getting 'trust' and perception management.

"The real promise of AI is not making life more convenient and all of this stuff that us plebs are told. The real promise is that it will forever alter humanity perceives and processes reality."

"This conversation exposes a rapidly consolidating agenda behind digital ID, biometric authentication, and the merging of online identity with financial and social participation. Framed publicly as a solution to bots, misinformation, and impersonation, digital ID is instead presented here as the infrastructural backbone of a new system of surveillance, consent manufacturing, and behavioral control. The discussion traces how calls to 'authenticate real humans” on social media platforms mask deeper contradictions, especially when state militaries themselves operate large-scale bot networks for narrative management, while contractors and tech executives publicly champion identity verification as a neutral fix.

"The analysis goes further, situating digital ID within a broader convergence of centralized data standards, public–private partnerships, and digital currency systems. Rather than a single universal ID, the emerging model relies on multiple vendors with interoperable standards, creating the appearance of decentralization while enabling global data centralization. This same logic underpins both central bank digital currencies and private bank digital money, which differ in branding but not in their programmability, surveillability, or capacity for control. When combined with AI-generated content, AI-driven censorship, and the transformation of social media platforms into financial intermediaries, the result is a synthetic digital environment where perception itself is managed. In such a world, trust is no longer built organically but engineered, with artificial identities, influencers, and narratives shaping reality while humans grow increasingly dependent on AI systems to define what is real."

More in the Investigative Insights TV video with investigative journalist Whitney Webb.