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  • Did Government-Sponsored Disinformation Worsen COVID-19?

    11/03/2024 5:11:42 AM PST · by george76 · 17 replies
    Brownstone Institute ^ | November 1, 2024 | Dr Robert Malone
    Political disinformation was positively associated with respiratory infection incidence. Government-sponsored disinformation was positively associated with the incidence of Covid-19. Internet censorship led to underreporting of the incidence of respiratory infections. Governments must stop sponsoring disinformation to avoid blame or gain a political advantage. The recent report from the US House Energy and Commerce Committee titled “We Can Do This: An Assessment of the Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Public Health Campaign” provides detailed, documented information concerning the public Covid-19 PsyWar/Propaganda disinformation campaign delivered by the “Fors Marsh Group” corporation for the US Department of Health and Human Services....
  • Selzer & Co. poll: Kamala up 3 in Iowa

    11/02/2024 6:12:28 PM PDT · by Redmen4ever · 59 replies
    CNN ^ | 11/2/2024 | Jennifer Agiesta
    Vice President Kamala Harris holds 47% to former President Donald Trump’s 44% among likely voters
  • The widely respected Des Moines Register/Selzer poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by THREE points In Iowa

    11/02/2024 4:21:30 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 170 replies
    The widely respected Des Moines Register/Selzer poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by THREE points. Harris: 47% Trump: 44% Independent women voters have led to a major boost for Harris. This is very unexpected.
  • KENNEDY: The women in Trump's life are sounding the alarm over a looming crisis. It may cost him the election

    11/01/2024 12:23:48 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 125 replies
    Daily mail ^ | 11/01/2024 | Kennedy
    Donald Trump's got a lady problem: Most women are siding with Kamala Harris. And in the final days of this impossibly close race, even as the former president takes a slight lead in the national polls for the first time ever, you'd think he'd shift his pitch to the chicks with the yips. Nope. At a rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday, your friendly neighborhood garbage-man wearing a bright orange reflective vest said: 'Whether the women like it or not, I am going to protect them.' Geez, Donald. Can you soften it a smidge? Rather than shoring up the shaky female...
  • Hugh Hewitt Schools Jonathan Capehart on What it Means to be a Real Journalist

    11/01/2024 9:16:11 AM PDT · by Frank Drebin · 11 replies
    Hugh Hewitt Schools Jonathan Capehart on What it Means to be a Real Journalist
  • More Republicans Appear to Be Voting Early, Despite Trump’s Mixed Messages

    10/22/2024 4:23:01 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 44 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Oct. 22, 2024, 5:08 p.m. ET | Kellen Browning, Benjamin Oreskes
    Republicans have spent months and millions of dollars on an effort to push former President Donald J. Trump’s most loyal supporters to change their minds about voting early. There is some evidence to suggest it’s working. With polls opening on Tuesday in Wisconsin, some form of early voting has commenced in all seven of the swing states. As of Monday, 17 million people nationwide had already cast a vote — and there are initial indications that Republicans are showing up to the polls or returning absentee ballots with more gusto than in recent years. In many cases, Republican officials and...
  • Kamala Harris Claims Russian Disinformation Campaign Responsible for Lack of Black Male Support

    10/16/2024 3:29:11 PM PDT · by packagingguy · 55 replies
    Shores News Network ^ | October 15, 2024 | Shores News Network Staff
    Vice President Kamala Harris recently sounded the alarm, claiming that Black men are being “brainwashed” by Russian operatives spreading disinformation. According to her, these foreign agents are working overtime to manipulate Black male voters, pushing false narratives to suppress their voices ahead of the 2024 election. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this is the latest iteration of the election interference saga that has dogged American politics since Harris seems convinced that Russian operatives are specifically targeting Black communities—especially Black men—hoping to diminish their turnout or sway their votes through misinformation… However, it’s a big leap to suggest that Black...
  • Disinformation Is Not The Problem... Government Coverups And Censorship Are The Problem

    10/10/2024 9:09:59 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Rutherford Institute ^ | 10/10/2024 | John & Nisha Whitehead
    “What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.”- Hannah...
  • Remember Kamala’s word salad answer about Israel on 60 Minutes? It’s gone.

    10/08/2024 4:16:42 PM PDT · by Its All Over Except ... · 32 replies
    X.com ^ | 10/8/24 | Maze
    Remember Kamala’s word salad answer about Israel on 60 Minutes? It’s gone. This is what many Americans will now see. ...
  • Kerry at the WEF: First Amendment Is the Problem

    09/30/2024 9:45:01 AM PDT · by DeweyCA · 30 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 9-30-24 | David Strom
    Democrats have been ramping up the rhetoric, not just about eliminating Donald Trump and MAGA, but about getting rid of the Constitution itself. The first two Amendments of the Constitution are constantly attacked by the left, followed closely by the Electoral College. Your right to speak, to defend yourself, and for people outside New York, California, and deep Blue urban areas to be represented are all under attack. The latest example of this fact is John Kerry, Special Envoy for the President for the Climate (yes, John Kerry is the Earth's representative according to the Biden/Harris administration), bemoaning the fact...
  • To combat misinformation, start with connection, not correction

    09/30/2024 6:00:16 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 15 replies
    npr ^ | 09/30/2024 | Audrey Nguyen
    Misinformation and disinformation can be a threat to our democracy. [Almost stopped reading right there] It can divide communities. It can make it harder for people to make informed choices — at the ballot box, at the grocery store and at the doctor's office. No one is immune. “We just don't have the time, the cognitive resources or even the motivation to literally fact-check every piece of information that comes our way,” says Briony Swire-Thompson, director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University. How to avoid sharing false or misleading news about the election People trust information more...
  • Trump keeps talking about criminalizing dissent

    09/25/2024 4:10:48 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 47 replies
    Washington Post via MSN ^ | Sep 24, 2024 | Aaron Blake
    For someone who has so strongly objected in recent weeks to the idea that he’s an authoritarian or a threat to democracy, Donald Trump has a funny way of showing it. At a rally Monday in Pennsylvania, the former president said for at least the fourth time that criticizing judges and justices either is or should be illegal. And for what may be the first time, he directly said people who do so should go to jail. This was not only a stunning comment about restricting free speech, but it suggests a standard that most likely would have landed Trump...
  • The Perils of Trying To Curtail Hazily Defined 'Disinformation'

    09/20/2024 6:02:32 AM PDT · by marktwain · 11 replies
    Reason ^ | February 15, 2023 | Jacob Sullum
    NewsGuard, a service that rates adherence to basic principles of good journalism, gives this website its highest possible score. Yet the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a British organization that aims to steer advertisers away from disreputable websites, claims Reason is one of the 10 "riskiest" online news sources in the United States. The stark contrast between those two assessments illustrates the challenge of defining "disinformation," an increasingly nebulous concept that invites subjective judgments driven by political allegiances and policy preferences. That problem is especially acute when the government demands that websites take steps to curtail "disinformation," portraying it as a...
  • How a circle of spies, Blinken covered up Biden scandals: Miranda Devine’s new book exclusive

    09/20/2024 2:40:38 AM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    New York Post ^ | Sep. 19, 2024, | Miranda Devine
    Antony Blinken helped create the infamous "Dirty 51" letter from former intelligence officials that claimed The Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, Miranda Devine reports in her new book.. Hunter Biden’s abandoned MacBook was a window into the Biden family business, a secret international influence peddling operation. .. ... He would later recruit his childhood friend to be the Obama administration’s lead negotiator on the ill-starred Iran nuclear deal, only to suffer the embarrassment of Malley being suspended without pay in 2023 during Biden’s presidency, the target of a mysterious FBI espionage investigation which continues to this...
  • IT NEVER ENDS! Soros-Funded Group Doubling Down on Censorship Efforts Ahead of 2024 Election

    09/17/2024 10:28:49 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 10 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 9/17/2024 | Joseph Vazquez
    A radical censorship-obsessed group financed by leftist billionaire George Soros is doubling down on efforts to interfere in the 2024 election by turning the screws on Big Tech to censor speech and by manipulating journalists.
  • Nolte: CNN’s Dana Bash Spread Foreign Disinformation About Springfield Bomb Threats

    09/17/2024 11:53:19 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/17/2024 | John Nolte
    Proving once again that she is not only a left-wing hack, but a truly dreadful and lazy reporter, we now know CNN’s Dana Bash spread foreign disinformation as it relates to the more than two dozen bomb threats that hit Springfield, Ohio. Springfield, which was a town of only 58,000 a few years ago, is now a town closer to 80,000 since the Harris-Biden administration sent some 20,000 Haitian migrants there. The results, as you might expect, have been catastrophic. What else could the results be when you import 20,000 unvetted people from the third world who have had no...
  • Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors

    09/14/2024 5:24:55 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 124 replies
    Guardian ^ | September 14, 2024 | Stephen Starr
    hile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed. He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock. “This was a false claim. I couldn’t believe that such a high official could make...
  • It's Also "Disinformation" When Our Government Does It

    09/13/2024 9:26:49 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    Mises Institute ^ | 09/13/2024 | Connor O'Keefe
    In recent weeks, there have been a series of stories about the government cracking down on foreign agents allegedly working to influence the 2024 election.First, the intelligence community linked the Iranian government to a hacking of Trump campaign documents. Then the federal government seized several websites it claims were linked to a Russian campaign to circulate disinformation—meaning deliberately spread false information.The biggest story came last week when two employees of the Russian media organization RT—formerly Russia Today—were indicted for allegedly sending nearly $10 million to a Tennessee-based online media company.US officials claim the scheme aimed to inject Russian government messaging...
  • 'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians

    09/13/2024 5:47:39 PM PDT · by TomServo · 91 replies
    NBC News ^ | 9/13/2024 | Alicia Victoria Lozano
    SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout. “It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday. Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat...
  • The Los Angeles Times blames Republicans for California’s woes

    09/08/2024 1:55:05 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 33 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 8 Sep, 2024 | Andrea Widburg
    One of the hallmarks of narcissism is that when things go wrong, it’s always someone else’s fault. Being a narcissist means never having to say you’re sorry. Nothing more perfectly illustrates this truism than an essay from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times blaming Republicans for California’s myriad woes. While the author is correct that, when Republicans had the chance, they didn’t make smart decisions, the reality is that it’s the Democrats who have led California to the desperate place it’s in now. Steve Lopez’s essay doesn’t make the mistake of blaming Republicans for all the state’s problems. He concedes that Democrats...