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SPEAKING OF “DISINFORMATION”
Powerline ^ | 28 Apr2022 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 04/28/2022 6:34:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan

The Axelrod/Atlantic conference on “Disinformation and the erosion of democracy” held at the University of Chicago earlier this month included a rogue’s gallery of purveyors of disinformation. We covered the conference in some detail as renegade students at the Chicago Thinker “staged a media regime takedown,” as the editors put it.

The Axelrod/Atlantic conference on “disinformation” was followed by Barack Obama’s April 21 contribution at Stanford University. Obama gave his speech the title “Disinformation is a threat to our democracy.” Is there an echo in here?

Obama captured his theme in the subhead of the linked text: “Tech platforms need to recognize that their decisions have an impact on every aspect of society.” On the assumption that you can concentrate on Obama’s text, the reading time should run 28 minutes. C-SPAN clocks the video at over 1:13:49. On a feels-like basis, it’s about two days.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; musk; truthsocial; twitter
Former President Barack Obama said “people are dying” due to disinformation on social media, pointing to the COVID-19 pandemic, during a speech at Stanford University on the threats disinformation poses to democracy at home and around the world. He spoke on the importance of free speech and the First Amendment, saying they can produce a healthier society, but that “the First Amendment is a check on the power of the state. It doesn’t apply to private companies like Facebook or Twitter, any more than it applies to editorial decisions made by The New York Times or Fox News. It never has.” President Obama also addressed disinformation associated with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the repeated denial of the legitimacy of the 2020 election results by many Republicans.

My hatred for this man has only grown since he left office. He is The Destructor, the bringer of doom. All of which he will ride out at his Martha's Vineyard estate, waiting for the oceans to rise.

1 posted on 04/28/2022 6:34:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Will the deep state create WWIII to stay in power?


2 posted on 04/28/2022 6:48:13 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Fido969

Maybe they would. It would also result in a population decrease ... which would make TPTB happy and even ease their global warming worries (if in fact they really do believe their own BS).


3 posted on 04/28/2022 6:51:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Rummyfan

I dont think Obama is smart enough, but he’s very ideological and he has been the chosen bearer of the leftist message for decades, changing from Muslim hippie child to foreign student to African American (which he wasn’t, by any standard), depending on what would benefit him most. He’s a rootless person.

Obama is not behind it, but he’s always been good at lending his face (and his supposed ethnic identity) to the highest bidder.


4 posted on 04/28/2022 6:53:12 PM PDT by livius
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To: Fido969
Will the deep state create WWIII to stay in power?

I have not the tiniest doubt that they will if they can.

They desperately want to get us into a war with Russia.

They need to do this before the off-year elections in November.

5 posted on 04/28/2022 6:55:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Fido969

Could you imagine Stalin or Mau Tse-ting standing down?


6 posted on 04/28/2022 7:43:11 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: Rummyfan

Here’s a list of disinformation.

Lies Dems tell

Antifa are not fascists.
The hundreds of riots in 2019-2020 were “mostly peaceful“

The ONE riot on January 6 was a threat to democracy and an attempted Insurrection!

President Trump called white supremacists in Charlottesville Virginia “good people“.

Joe Biden’s family is not corrupt. That’s a “conspiracy theory”.

Joe Biden inherited a corrupt and damaged border policy from President Trump.

The Obama administration was without a single controversy

Democrats favor free speech.

Prostitutes peed on a bed in Moscow

Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in America.

Hunter Biden is the smartest man Joe Biden knows.

Joe doesn’t know anything about Hunter’s business deals.

There’s more than one gender.

82 million people voted for Joe Biden- fewer people voted for Barack Obama.

The CDC “follows the science”.

Requiring photo ID to vote is racist.

Joe Biden did not have close contact with Nancy Pelosi just before she tested positive.

Our military withdrawal from Afghanistan was well-organized and orderly. It was all Trump’s fault that people died because President Biden was compelled to follow through on the deal that President Trump had already made.

The wall on the Mexican border did not need to be completed.

Global warming is “ settled science“

Five-year-olds can choose their gender. Their parents are not to be informed.

Parents who go to school board meetings are anarchists and white racists

This time, Socialism will work! Because it’s “Democratic Socialism”

Even more gun laws will stop gun crimes.

If something isn’t right, “It’s Trump’s fault!”

It was not the Democrats who have been the racists ever since the 1860s, it’s the Republicans. Something about Republicans changed, but we can’t quite say what that was.

Republicans are the cause of urban crime all across the country, even though Democrats have been in control of most major cities for decades

More Government spending, or “Investing” will solve any problem.

The Second Amendment is about hunting. It’s not about the “security of a free State”. If it’s written somewhere in cursive, it’s racist.

The US Constitution needs to be interpreted in the context of today because it was written by white slaveowners.

Joe Biden had nothing of particular interest to say at the January 2018 Council on Foreign Relations meeting

The Obama White House was the most transparent administration of all time

Everyone needs a “safe space“

Men can become Pregnant

The founding fathers could not have known what kinds of “arms” would be available in the 21st century, so magazines should not have more than 10 rounds.

Joe Biden does not need a cognitive test.

Corn Pop was a bad dude AND he ran some bad boys.

Defunding police and replacing cops with social workers will make people safer. Reimagine THAT!

The Iran nuclear deal will slow Iran’s pace to have nuclear weapons.

Ashley Babbitt was not murdered.

Joe Biden is a foreign policy expert.

Jill Biden is a doctor. Hunter Biden is an artist.

Climate change is real in the winter. In the summer, it’s called “global warming”

“Russia! Russia! Russia!” makes sense.

If a black man kills another black man in the city, we don’t need to “say his name“

If “whatever” is not already taxed, it needs to be regulated

NPR is unbiased and should get Federal funding.

White people are oppressors.

An unorganized mass of cells only becomes a human after it is born. Even then, there’s some debate because “it’s my body, it’s my choice!“

Joe Biden got involved in politics because of the environmental impact of a new highway in Delaware. Joe Biden got involved in politics because of apartheid in South Africa. Oddly, Joe Biden got involved in politics because he thought politicians were unscrupulous. All of this is true, simultaneously.

Transgender “women” can compete with normal women. They have no inherent advantage. If you think they do, you have tranny-phobia.

1619 teaches true US history.

If something has a negative impact, then it is disproportionately bad for minority communities.

Today’s economy is growing at record levels.


7 posted on 04/28/2022 8:20:25 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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