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  • Trump talks ‘bloodbath’ in auto industry if cheap Chinese EVs flood the market — Dems pretend he called for violence

    03/18/2024 8:58:05 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 53 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 03/18/2024 | Jack Hellner
    The media and other Democrats know that Joe Biden and his policies are unpopular, so for the last eight years, they’ve sought to destroy Donald Trump, no matter how much they have to intentionally lie and mislead the public, and this latest iteration is beyond absurd.While speaking at a recent campaign rally, Trump said there would be a “bloodbath” in the auto industry if China flooded the American market with cheap electric vehicles flowing through Mexico—but instead of showing the full quote, much of the media, along with Biden campaign workers and Democrats like Pelosi, decided that with polls as...
  • UK government pressures Big Tech giants to censor ‘misinformation’ ahead of elections

    03/05/2024 10:16:13 AM PST · by xoxox · 13 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | Tue Mar 5, 2024 - 11:58 am EST | Didi Rankovic
    The U.K. has a new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy, Conservative MP Saqib Bhatti, and the politician seems very enthusiastic when talking about things like “cooperation” with Big Tech, particularly in terms of elections. That’s because, critics will say, those in power want to absolutely control the conversation, what can and can’t be said online, and thus directly influence the vote; whereas those in power say, it’s all just a perfectly benevolent effort to make sure misinformation plays no part in the campaign.
  • Some of the Same News Outlets Warning About 'Disinformation' Are Taking Millions To Print Chinese Propaganda

    02/22/2024 5:13:36 PM PST · by Red6 · 10 replies
    The Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 21, 2024 | Drew Holden
    When U.S. news outlets' lucrative peddling of Chinese propaganda was exposed in 2019 and 2020, it was a scandal. Human rights groups condemned the practice, and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal swore off Chinese Communist Party money. In the years since, however, a number of major U.S. newspapers and magazines have kept at it—accepting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars from the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for publishing content by China Daily, a state-owned English-language paper. China Daily's Foreign Agents Registration Act filings show that between October 2020 and October 2023, the CCP mouthpiece paid...
  • Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation

    02/18/2024 5:52:45 AM PST · by devane617 · 86 replies
    CNBC ^ | 02/18/2024
    A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in this year’s elections. The industry is specifically targeting deepfakes, which can use deceptive audio, video and images to mimic key stakeholders in democratic elections or to provide false voting information. Microsoft , Meta , Google , Amazon , IBM , Adobe and chip designer Arm all signed the accord. Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI also joined the group, alongside social media companies such as Snap , TikTok and X. Tech platforms are preparing for a huge year of elections...
  • ‘An age of manufactured mistrust’: Here’s what rampant disinformation means for health, climate, and democracy (barfy concern troll alert)

    02/17/2024 6:55:30 AM PST · by DoodleBob · 34 replies
    Fortune ^ | February 13, 2024 | Bill Novelli
    “Well over 300,000 Americans are in graveyards today because of the misinformation, the doubt, the suspicion, the distrust that caused them to say that vaccine is not safe for me. And it continues,” Dr. Francis Collins, the former head of the National Institutes of Health said in September 2022, citing a KFF estimate.Disinformation not only continues but it’s getting worse. Public trust is declining due to social media, and increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI). As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, distrust can lead to preventable deaths.Confidence continues to declineLast month, the Florida Surgeon General called for a halt to COVID-19 vaccines, saying...
  • UK’s “Online Safety Act” OFFICIALLY grants MSM permission to publish lies

    02/05/2024 7:16:19 AM PST · by House Atreides · 15 replies
    Off-Guardian.org ^ | February 2, 2024
    Welcome to the UK where it’s now official government policy that you CAN’T publish “misinformation”, but The Guardian, the BBC, Disney and Netflix CAN. Yes, it’s true – the recently signed “Online Safety Act” brands the publication of “false information” a criminal offense punishable by up to a year in prison… …unless you’re an MSM outlet, when it’s totally fine. Think even the corrupt & bloated criminal class that rules over us would never dare be that blatant? Take a look at section 179 making it illegal to publish false information with intent to cause harm: [GO TO LINKED ARTICLE...
  • Disinformation poses an unprecedented threat in 2024 — and the U.S. is less ready than ever (Brandy Zadrozny/MSM concern troll alert)

    02/01/2024 4:15:04 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 24 replies
    NBC ^ | January 18, 2024 | Brandy Zadrozny
    Disinformation poses an unprecedented threat to democracy in the United States in 2024, according to researchers, technologists and political scientists. As the presidential election approaches, experts warn that a convergence of events at home and abroad, on traditional and social media — and amid an environment of rising authoritarianism, deep distrust, and political and social unrest — makes the dangers from propaganda, falsehoods and conspiracy theories more dire than ever. The U.S. presidential election comes during a historic year, with billions of people voting in other elections in more than 50 countries, including in Europe, India, Mexico and South Africa....
  • DISARM IS A DYSTOPIAN GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE TOOL TO IDENTIFY, CATALOG, AND COMBAT MISINFORMATION.

    01/20/2024 7:40:37 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    Sonar21.com ^ | 19 Jan, 2024 | Bob Bishop
    The keynote speaker of the World Economic Forum’s 2024 annual conference in Davos was Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President. She stated the top global risk for the EU is disinformation and misinformation, declaring disinformation destroys trust and limits the ability to “tackle the big global challenges.” In plain English, trust can only be restored by censoring inconvenient facts and evidence. Below is a short clip (1:39) highlighting her disinformation sermon. The top risk in the WEF’s 2024 Global Risk Report is disinformation. If not controlled, societies will be polarized, elections will be disrupted, and there will be mistrust...
  • Trump pushes misinformation suggesting Dems would "infiltrate" New Hampshire GOP primary

    01/19/2024 5:54:06 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 64 replies
    CBS News ^ | 1/19/24 | Jacob Rosen
    "Nikki Haley is counting on Democrats and liberals to infiltrate your Republican primary," Trump said to a small ballroom filled with supporters in Portsmouth Wednesday evening, before blaming New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu for the state's primary system, which allows undeclared voters — which make up 40% of the state's registered voters — to vote in either the Republican or Democratic primary on Jan. 23. Trump repeated the same unfounded claims to a crowd of over 1,000 in Atkinson, New Hampshire, Tuesday night, and inaccurately stated that Democrats want to "cancel out" votes for him. By law, undeclared residents may...
  • Time for another media 'Trump's spreading misinformation' rake stomp

    01/19/2024 10:36:28 AM PST · by NetAddicted · 5 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 1/19/2024 | Doug P
    Now that it's an election year, the media spotlight on the dangers of "misinformation" and "disinformation" is starting to shine bright, and oddly enough this kind of thing comes mostly from outlets that have ironically helped spread misinformation while running cover for the Democrats: Disinformation poses an unprecedented threat to democracy in the U.S. in 2024, according to researchers, technologists and political scientists. https://t.co/oWF8f2ypXD — NBC News (@NBCNews) January 18, 2024 "Disinformation" can of course often be defined as things that are true but aren't helpful to the Left's desired narrative. One of the most glaring recent examples of that...
  • How far will the pendulum swing - and where will it stop?

    04/03/2022 7:50:55 AM PDT · by shadowlands1960 · 16 replies
    GBN ^ | April 2nd, 2022 | Neil Oliver
    I wonder how far all this will go. By “all this”, I mean the headlong push, always in the same direction, always away from the world I recognise. To me it seems as though a pendulum is swinging, has been swinging for years now, but always and only one way – further and further from the point where I stand. I wonder too, how far that pendulum can swing before it must stop and, inevitably swing back the other way, and with a vengeance. Every action, after all, has an equal and opposite reaction. To me there seems no avoiding...
  • Fear-mongering global elites identify most severe threats Biggest danger in short term is NOT climate change

    01/11/2024 8:30:57 AM PST · by rktman · 20 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 1/10/2024 1513 hrs | Joe Kovacs
    The World Economic Forum, the group of global elites whom those on the political right love to hate, has just issued its report on the biggest threats in 2024 and beyond. And at the top of its list of risks is not the climate, at least not immediately. The WEF, based in Davos, Switzerland, says the biggest short-term risk stems from fake news. "While climate-related risks remain a dominant theme, the threat from misinformation and disinformation is identified as the most severe short-term threat in the 2024 report," the group indicated. "The cascading shocks that have beset the world in...
  • WEF convenes in Switzerland to address the ‘most severe global risk’ anticipated in the near future: brushfires of truth

    01/15/2024 7:25:25 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 15 Jan, 2024 | Olivia Murray
    “It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” Samuel Adams, a son of liberty in every sense of the word, would be proud—the Self-Imagined Elites currently circling the wagons in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s annual summit meeting are panicked, thanks to the “irate, tireless minority” lighting brushfire after brushfire of truth (or what the WEF acolytes call “misinformation” and “disinformation”). Men like Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, António Guterres, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and every other unelected globalist bureaucrat moving hell and earth...
  • Politifact Founder Predicts Social Media Will Be Used to 'Suppress Misinformation' More Often This Year

    01/10/2024 10:38:07 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 1 replies
    Hotair ^ | 01/11/2024 | John Sexton
    I completely missed this when it was published at the end of last month. Fortunately, Jesse Singal did a great write-up about it which I noticed today. As you may know, Bill Adair is the founder of Politifact, a site which has generate a lot of content for this blog over the years. Last month, Adair was asked to share his predictions for 2024 and he wrote a piece titled “Fact-checking needs a reboot.” Part of that reboot would be pressuring social media companies to “suppress misinformation” more often.After I founded PolitiFact in 2007, I often said that our goal...
  • Initial US employment reports overstated by 439,000 jobs in 2023

    01/07/2024 8:52:42 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | Jan. 6, 2024, 10:18 p.m. ET | Elizabeth MacDonald, Fox Business
    There’s something wrong with previous U.S. jobs reports. The government quietly erased 439,000 jobs through November 2023, a closer look at the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. That means its initial jobs results were inflated by 439,000 positions, and the job market is not as healthy as the government suggests. Since the government wiped out 439,000 jobs after the fact, the total percentage of jobs created by the government last year is even higher. Increased government hiring has been driving the jobs numbers higher.
  • BREAKING: Now There’s Proof! Brad Raffensperger Lied to President Trump When He Told Him in Jan 2021 Phone Call There Was No Fraud in 2020 Election

    12/28/2023 9:58:43 AM PST · by bitt · 2 replies
    GATEWAYPUNDIT ^ | 12/28/2023 | jim hoft
    In late December 2020, President Trump made a call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to look at some of the items that were uncovered by his auditor. There was plenty of evidence for a competent auditor or any man of integrity to know that the election was uncertifiable. Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger’s office secretly recorded the phone call with President Trump, then lied about its contents later when they leaked it to the far-left Washington Post. Raffensperger’s office ran to the Washington Post and leaked a fraudulent transcript of the call. After they were caught...
  • Trump asking allies about possibility of Nikki Haley for vice president

    12/22/2023 5:54:39 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 205 replies
    Cbsnews ^ | 12/22/2023 | FIN GÓMEZ, OLIVIA RINALDI
    Former President Donald Trump has been asking allies and advisers for their thoughts about Nikki Haley as a potential vice presidential candidate, two sources familiar with the conversations tell CBS News. The feedback from the MAGA crowd regarding putting Haley on the ticket if Trump wins the GOP nomination has been overwhelmingly negative, according to these GOP sources. Politico first reported that Trump allies are working to quash the possibility of a Trump-Haley ticket.
  • A lot of things are getting cheaper. Here's why you probably haven't noticed.

    12/06/2023 5:56:59 PM PST · by matt04 · 47 replies
    Even though inflation is still higher than ideal, many things are actually getting cheaper. But perhaps not the ones most Americans want. The prices of durable goods, meaning long-lasting items such as used cars or appliances, have fallen year-over-year for each of the past five months. Data released Thursday by the Commerce Department showed prices for such goods were down 2.2% in October compared with the year prior. Some economists estimate the fall in goods prices could bring inflation back to the Federal Reserve's 2% target by as early as the second half of 2024. One inflation gauge, the personal...
  • Wikipedia Co-Founder No Longer Recommends His Online Encyclopedia

    12/06/2023 7:16:51 AM PST · by Twotone · 36 replies
    NewsDetectives.Substack.com ^ | November 21, 2023 | Matthieu Lumiere
    Back in 2017, the Daily Beast wrote that Operation Mockingbird “has never been officially discontinued.” Wikipedia - the internet encyclopedia constantly propped up to be the #1 source for online information and constantly shoved down our throats — provides damning evidence that the government infiltration of American news and information is alive and well. Most Google searches rank Wikipedia at the top of the search results page. And YouTube uses it whenever they put one of those annoying “context tabs” on a video. Yet Wikipedia is not considered a reliable source of information by anyone with half a brain. Most...
  • Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden Smears Patriotic American Christians: ‘No Different’ from Hamas Terrorists

    11/23/2023 2:20:22 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 87 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/23/2023 | David NG
    Former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden, who has fashioned a post-government career attacking and censoring conservatives, is spending his Thanksgiving week smearing patriotic American Christians who own firearms, claiming they are “no different” from Hamas terrorists. On Wednesday, Michael Hayden responded to a post on X that juxtaposed two photos: one of a woman holding an American flag, Bible, and handgun; the other of Palestinian terrorist Reem Riyashi, who killed herself along with four Israelis in a 2004 suicide bombing that was claimed by Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.