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  • Disinformation Down 92% As NYT Writers Go On Strike

    12/08/2022 10:48:55 AM PST · by DFG · 7 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 12/08/2022 | Babylon Bee
    NEW YORK, NY — Researchers are reporting that disinformation on Twitter, Facebook, and mainstream news sources is already down by 92% in the wake of a 24-hour writer's strike at the New York Times. "We always wondered where all this harmful disinformation was coming from," said Darryl Ball, a researcher with the Center for Combatting Bad Things Online. "Turns out, it was all coming from those knuckleheads at the Times. Who knew?" Several studies indicate the country has seen a sharp decrease in hate speech, foreign propaganda, and shockingly dumb hot takes since the entire writing staff walked out of...
  • Golden Globes Awards Show Canceled, Replaced With News Conference

    01/09/2008 11:36:11 AM PST · by frogjerk · 34 replies · 84+ views
    LOS ANGELES — The Golden Globes, the ceremony known for getting Hollywood's awards season off to a rollicking start, will be reduced to a news conference Sunday by the writers strike and will likely draw picket lines and lack star power. Despite the revamped ceremony announced Monday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Screen Actors Guild said it was encouraging its members to skip the show in support of the two-month walkout by the Writers Guild of America. "The WGA informed us they will picket the event on Sunday," the actors guild said in a statement. Patric M. Verrone,...