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  • Twitter Suspensions Called Unfair [semi-satire]

    12/17/2022 9:55:35 AM PST · by John Semmens · 1 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 18 December 2022 | John Semmens
    The Twitter accounts of CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, The New York Times' Ryan Mac, The Washington Post's Drew Harwell and others were abruptly suspended by Elon Musk this week. "To be thrown off the platform with no warning or explanation is the worst kind of censorship," O'Sullivan complained. "This never would have happened under the previous ownership." Musk challenged the assertion that the suspensions were unfair and unexplained. "The reason these individuals had their accounts temporarily suspended is that they were using Twitter to dox me," Musk tweeted. "Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended because it...
  • Censors Set Their Sights On Musk's Twitter Takeover: Twitter might become a “vector of misinformation"...

    12/13/2022 5:38:33 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 12/13/2022 | Charlotte Allen
    Not long after Elon Musk acquired Twitter with his promise of ending its censorship regime, a reporter from Reuters covering a White House press conference asked Karine Jean-Pierre, President Joe Biden’s press secretary, whether Twitter might become a “vector of misinformation.” Jean-Pierre’s response at the Nov. 28 press conference was:“This is something that we’re certainly keeping an eye on. Look, we have always been very clear that when it comes to social media platforms, it is their responsibility to make sure that when it comes to misinformation, when it comes to the hate that we’re seeing, that they take action,...
  • MSNBC’s Mitchell to Fauci: How Difficult Was It to Stand Next to Trump Spreading Misinformation?

    12/13/2022 4:54:12 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/12/2022 | Pam Key
    MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell asked Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci how difficult it was to stand next to then-President Donald Trump saying things that “are not accurate about public health,” Tuesday on her show “Andrea Mitchell Reports.” Partial transcript as follows: MITCHELL: So you are standing next to the president in all these COVID briefings. How difficult is it for you when you hear him saying things that you know are not accurate about public health? FAUCI: It’s difficult because I have a great deal of respect for the office the presidency of...
  • Climate misinformation explodes on Twitter

    12/05/2022 1:29:46 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 44 replies
    The Verge via MSN ^ | December 5, 2022 | by Justine Calma
    Lies about climate change on Twitter escalated to unprecedented levels this year, according to new analyses. The unnerving rise of content that rejects widely accepted climate science — sometimes referred to as climate skepticism or climate denial — piles on top of growing concerns about misinformation and hateful content that’s proliferated since Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. There have been more tweets and retweets “using climate-sceptic terminology” in 2022 than in any other year since Twitter’s founding in 2006, according to analysis conducted for The Times by City, University of London researchers. That’s 850,000 climate-skeptic tweets or...
  • Thought Police alarm: U.S. urges you to confront friends' 'misinformation'

    12/05/2022 6:18:27 AM PST · by grcuster · 50 replies
    WND ^ | 12/4/2022 | Art Moore
    The Biden administration has awarded $5 million to a group of journalists developing software to encourage Americans to confront their friends over "harmful" posts and to "correct misinformation" such as stating the COVID-19 vaccines are not effective. The group, called Hacks/Hackers, also is organizing censorship of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, to determine who is a "credible source" on vaccines and block others from being cited, the Daily Wire reported. Users of the taxpayer-funded software – the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust, or ARTT – are encouraged to paste in their friends' Twitter and Facebook posts. The tool will tell...
  • Flu Misinformation and Coronavirus Fears: My Letter to Dr. Sanjay Gupta

    11/27/2022 7:12:55 PM PST · by Qiviut · 37 replies
    Children's Health Defense ^ | May 9, 2020 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
    [CHD note: this article was originally published on April 16, 2020.] Dear Sanjay,Last week, your CNN producer, Matthew Reynard, notified me that CNN is featuring me in a documentary about “vaccine misinformation”. As usual, Mr. Reynard did not point out a single factual assertion by me that was incorrect (I carefully source all of my statements about vaccines to government databases or peer-reviewed publications). CNN uses the term “vaccine misinformation” as a euphemism for any statement that departs from the Government / Pharma orthodoxy that all vaccines are safe, necessary, and effective for all people.I respectfully point out that CNN...
  • FNC’s Carlson on Left’s Claims of ‘Misinformation’: ‘This Is What Panic Looks Like — These Are People Who Know They’re About to Get Crushed

    11/08/2022 6:40:42 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/08/2022 | Jeff Poor
    Monday, FNC’s Tucker Carlson said with Democrats and their like-minded allies in the media sounding the alarms of “misinformation” as Election Day approached was a show of “panic.” According to the Fox News Channel host, it was a sign Democrats were on their way to a defeat in this year’s midterms.
  • FBI Whistleblower Leaks Document Showing Agency Targeting ‘Misinformation’ Under ‘Election Crimes’ Ahead of 2022 Midterm Elections (Project Veritas)

    10/27/2022 2:50:58 PM PDT · by PapaBear3625 · 41 replies
    Project Veritas ^ | October 27, 2022 | Project Veritas
    Document titled “2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet” details what FBI agents should look out for leading up to November 8. The document lists “misinformation” as a potential election crime, describing it as “false or misleading information spread mistakenly or unintentionally.” The document also lists “disinformation” as a potential election crime, describing it as “false or innacurate information intended to mislead others.” It continues, “Disinformation campaigns on social media are used to deliberately confuse, trick, or upset the public.” The FBI reminded its agents that the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment exist, under the “Things to Consider” section...
  • Twitter employees hit out at Elon Musk’s plans to cut 75% of staff

    10/26/2022 2:42:22 PM PDT · by Paladin2 · 85 replies
    WaPo birdcage liner ^ | 10/25/22 | Rachael Davies
    The billionaire’s plans, which were reported in The Washington Post last week, would account for 5,500 of the 7,500-strong workforce. Mr Musk previously described Twitter’s workforce as bloated, saying it had a “strong, left-wing bias”. Before the deadline to agree on a deal on Friday, October 28 , TIME reports that it has seen a draft of an open letter that Twitter employees plan to circulate. The employees demand that Mr Musk commits to preserving the company’s existing workforce. They argue that he should not discriminate against employees based on their political beliefs. There are also demands that the potential...
  • Associated Depressed: Lib Outlet Cries Big Tech Not Doing Enough to Handle Election Misinfo ‘Mayhem’

    10/25/2022 10:41:09 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 9 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 10/25/2022 | Joseph Vazquez
    The Associated Press is throwing a hissy fit that Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter aren’t doing enough to censor political speech before the midterm elections. The liberal outlet whined in an Oct. 21 piece that “misinformation about voting and elections abounds on social media despite promises by tech companies to address a problem blamed for increasing polarization and distrust.” AP joins a growing chorus of liberal media outlets like The New York Times banging the same drum trying to get Big Tech to listen to their screeching and shut their political opponents up. AP raised alarm that there’s...
  • PayPal Reverses Plan To Fine Users $2,500 For ‘Misinformation’ After Daily Wire Report

    10/09/2022 8:16:00 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 52 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | 10/8/2022 | Greg Wilson
    A red-faced PayPal walked back a shocking new policy announcement that users who advance “misinformation” could face fines of $2,500 per offense, saying it was all a mistake after The Daily Wire called attention to the chilling scheme. The financial services company, which has repeatedly deplatformed organizations and individual commentators for their political views, announced Saturday, one day after The Daily Wire story broke, that the announcement went out in error.
  • Newsom signs bill banning spread of COVID-19 “misinformation” by licensed physicians

    10/12/2022 5:28:50 AM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 62 replies
    KUSI ^ | Staff
    SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – AB 2098, recently signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, qualifies spreading COVID-19 “misinformation” as unprofessional conduct and makes it punishable as such.Attorneys say AB 2098 is unconstitutional and a violation of 1st Amendment.The parameters for misinformation regarding the pandemic are widely debated, with studies continuing to contradict one another well into society’s recovery from the global crisis — especially in relation to vaccines. The bill states: “Misinformation’ means false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.”KUSI’s Paul Rudy was joined by Board-Certified Physician Dr. Jeff Barke to...
  • Gavin Newsom Signs a Bill to Persecute Doctors who Disseminate Mis-Information about Covid-19

    10/04/2022 11:11:20 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 33 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 10/04/2022 | Lincoln Brown
    Is Gavin Newsom completely tone-deaf, self-centered, and deluded? Does he have something to gain by emptying California of its population and ruining it economically? Is he trying to showcase his progressive chops for a potential run against DeSantis for the POTUS slot? Or is he just a terrible human being? If you said all of the above, you may already be a winner. Newsom, in his never-ending quest to make California a post-apocalyptic wasteland of mob rule, Mad Max-style running battles, ritual cannibalism, mutant animals, and the adult version of Lord of the Flies, has signed AB-2098 into law, according...
  • Climate Change is Helping to Rapidly Turbocharge Storms Like Hurricane Ian

    09/28/2022 5:53:17 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 106 replies
    TIME ^ | September 28, 2022 | BY SETH BORENSTEIN/AP
    Hurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that became much more powerful in less than a day. As the world warms, this turbo-charging of storms is likely to become even more frequent, scientists say. While climate change doesn’t create Ian and other hurricanes, scientists say that a warming world means an increase in rapidly intensifying storms. Climate change also is making storms slower and wetter, worsening deadly storm surges through sea-level rise, increasing freshwater flooding and expanding the proportion of...
  • The misinformation and lies that are peddled to the public on climate change dwarf the misinformation on COVID

    09/01/2022 4:54:55 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 1 Sep, 2022 | Jack Hellner
    Climate change pushers are infecting the U.S. with a pandemic of the indoctrinated. The misinformation and intentional lies on climate change/global warming dwarfs the misinformation the government fed us on COVID and is an existential threat to our survival as a great country. Essentially, climate change pushers are infecting the U.S. with a pandemic of the indoctrinated. The Earth is not rapidly warming. We have had a one to two degree rise in 160 years after a little ice age ended in 1860. That is cyclical and normal and certainly has no relationship to an exponential rise in fossil fuel...
  • Michael Hayden, Advisor to ‘Misinformation’ Watchdog NewsGuard, Says GOP More Dangerous than Al Qaeda, ISIS

    08/18/2022 6:13:02 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/18/2022 | Allum Bokhari
    Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who directed the CIA and the NSA during his career but has since become a partisan clown, CNN talking head, and member of the advisory board for establishment media watchdog NewsGuard, recently agreed that even compared to other movements around the world, Republicans are the most “nihilistic, dangerous, and contemptible.” This allegation means that in Hayden’s worldview, Republicans outrank Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Chinese Communist Party among others in terms of their danger to the world.
  • 'Stop the Steal' Forever

    07/23/2022 12:46:00 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 48 replies
    The New York Times via Yahoo ^ | July 23, 2022 | By Charles Homans and Mark Peterson
    HOW THE MOVEMENT TO REINSTATE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS GONE FAR BEYOND HIM —AND NOW THREATENS THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS. Trump had jolted American politics, probably irrevocably, by urging his supporters to see themselves as an American people distinct from the American population — a people whose particular loyalties, identities and values designated them as the nation’s true inheritors, regardless of what the ballots might have said. If this vision was enabled by his ego, which took him to places no other American president had dared to go, it was also constrained by it, limited by Trump’s inability to imagine...
  • UT-Dallas is investigating a professor’s homophobic tweet with misinformation about monkeypox

    07/21/2022 7:26:22 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 47 replies
    Texas Tribune ^ | 7/20/22 | Kate McGee
    LGBTQ students want the university to take “substantive action” against the computer science professor for his tweet, which included misinformation about how the monkeypox virus spreads.
  • Many Republicans secretly tell Liz Cheney they support her but won't say it in public for fear of Trump, a new book says

    07/11/2022 1:39:45 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 150 replies
    businessinsider.com ^ | 7/11/22 | Tom Porter
    Republican lawmakers privately support to Rep. Liz Cheney but refuse to do so in public for fear of former President Donald Trump, according to extracts from a new book. The claim appeared in "Thank You For Your Servitude," by Mark Leibovich, a political writer who speak years at The New York Times Magazine and now writes for The Atlantic. The book is devoted to exploring Trump's circle, and alleges that many people who support him in public are hypocrites who privately dislike him. One Republican member of Congress to vocally oppose Trump is Cheney, who was stripped of a party...
  • UPDATE: A Secret Service official familiar with the matter told CNN that Tony Ornato denies telling Cassidy Hutchinson that the former president grabbed the steering wheel or an agent on his detail

    06/29/2022 3:24:33 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 56 replies
    CNN ^ | 6/29/22 | Shimon Prokupecz
    UPDATE: A Secret Service official familiar with the matter told CNN that Tony Ornato denies telling Cassidy Hutchinson that the former president grabbed the steering wheel or an agent on his detail.— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) June 28, 2022