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“The coup attempt on Tuesday came one day after officials suspended publication of the French newsmagazine Jeune Afrique over ‘untruthful’ articles reporting tension within Burkina Faso’s armed forces.”
“CNN — which launched in 1980 and bills itself as ‘the most trusted name in news’ — totaled just 55,000 viewers for its weekend slate of shows that include Sunday political programs ‘State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash,’ and ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS…’
The ratings are the network’s worst since 1991 — the earliest TV data is readily available.”
“Article 19 noted that an additional two journalists were murdered in July and a photojournalist disappeared the same month. It said that 161 journalists have been murdered since 2000, including 41 during the current federal administration.”
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
“The NSF characterizes providing journalists with mental health counseling as part of an effort to address the ‘rapid spread of misinformation’ because ‘harassment undermines confidence in pivotal sources of knowledge and reduces expert participation in the information ecosystem.’ The grant is part of a broader NSF initiative to bolster ‘trust and authenticity in communications systems’.”
“This is rich coming from the woman whose campaign paid for the Steele dossier to be disseminated…”
“Hillary Clinton wanted to drone kill Julian Assange and created a private server in order to circumvent foia requests from the press.”
“Just about everyone who I’ve seen has had really mild symptoms. The only way that we knew that it was Covid was because we happened to be testing them.”
“InternetNZ has announced today a fund of $680,000 from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) to provide grants to minimise the harms of disinformation in New Zealand. The Free Speech Union acknowledges that disinformation is a perennial threat to democracy, which can only be debunked through debate and open discourse…”
“President Biden’s White House has told America’s news organizations — including CNN, the New York Times and Fox News — to ‘ramp up their scrutiny’ of House Republicans ‘for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.’”
“I’ve caught myself doing it. I’ll be writing an article and I’ll say to myself, ‘Better not use that word — it’s a trigger word for the algorithms’ Sometimes I’ll think about writing a report on one of the forbidden topics, then I’ll think to myself, ‘What’s the point? It’ll get throttled by Facebook and no one will see it,’ or ‘We’ll lose money on it,’ and I’ll get discouraged from continuing.”
“The complaint requests the Kansas Commission on Judicial Conduct to review ‘Viar’s mental capacity in her decision to seemingly circumvent federal and state law’ when she signed off on the search warrant for the newspaper office…”
“Marianna Spring, one of the BBC’s fastest-rising stars, reportedly embellished the truth on her resume while applying for a job before she joined the broadcaster in 2018…
Spring went on to forge a successful career at the BBC, where she has become an award-winning and trusted voice on the internet’s dark corners and conspiracy theories.”
MSNBS – “It takes a very brave and unique person to do this — to be a first in a situation like this, and then to continue on.”
“The lawsuit alleges that he was watching the women undress and on at least one occasion was visibly erect while doing so….”
“The sisters also claim Langford ‘repeatedly questioned the women about what vaginas look like, breast cup size, whether women were considering breast reductions and birth control.”
“After perennially and uncritically repeating President Biden’s false claims about cutting the federal budget deficit, the Washington Post admitted Sunday that Biden will double the deficit this year to $2 trillion.”
“Two female Iranian journalists will spend around a month behind bars as part of a three-year partly suspended prison sentence for ‘conspiracy’ and ‘collusion'”
“What do you take from his text to his adult daughter — Hunter texted her I had to give 50% of my income to Pop.”
“I have no idea what that means. I don’t. I have no idea what that means.”
“A whopping 87 percent of journalism graduates regret their degree choice, with sociology, liberal arts, communications, and education next on the regret list. Of job seekers with college degrees overall, 44 percent regret their chosen major.”
“Fact Checker: Here’s a guide to some of the stories told by President Biden that cannot be verified or are not plausible.”
“Biden loves to retell certain stories. Some aren’t credible.“
“Avenatti was arrested in New York as he was about to meet with Nike lawyers to press his demands. The same day, federal prosecutors in California charged him with stealing from clients.”
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“The East African nation has among the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, and anyone convicted of engaging in homosexual acts faces life imprisonment.”
Updated for Context (CNN Twitter)
“Enemies of Russian President Vladimir Putin living abroad have been poisoned in the past, including former secret agents Sergei Skripal, who survived, and Sergei Litvinenko, who did not. A former Chechen rebel died in Berlin in what a German court said was a Russian state assassination.”
Curious NY Times & The Atlantic Headlines
“A service spokesman notified the news network that it was pushing an incorrect story and accused it of using the grief of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee’s family to draw in readers, the email exchanges, released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request, show. Fox News eventually deleted the story with no correction, and it never reached out to the Gee family with an apology as the Marine Corps requested, the family said.”
“At least until the numbers start to drop again, it would be appropriate for President Biden to take some precautions and wear a mask in crowds.”
“Unfortunately, Joan Meyer, who was 98 years old, passed away the day after the police raided her home.”
Their main targets? Climate change, transgenderism, and COVID. Pretty much any time we write anything suggesting that the climate-change panic might be just a wee bit overblown, the article is flagged and demonetized for ‘unreliable and harmful claims,’ even though we cite scientists and quote reliable sources.”
“The destructive and contagious chemical decay is aptly called “vinegar syndrome” — and it means the clock is ticking for those trying to preserve history from this era in Toronto, across the country and around the world.”
“Washington, DC – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA for all communications of the spy agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) regarding an October 19, 2020, email request to review and ‘clear’ a letter signed by 51 former intelligence community officials characterizing the Hunter Biden laptop story as having ‘all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign'”
Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency – No. 1:23-cv-01844
“Su Wende’s Mandarin Pages newspaper thrived in New Zealand for years – until blacklists and advertising boycotts driven by China’s consulate cut the Chinese-language daily to a weekly.
Chen Weijian’s New Times Weekly was hit by the same tactics and then driven out of business by a lawsuit.”
“if bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is that if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person but it wounds us as a democracy in a way…”
“extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard“
Washington Post 08/14/2023
“For every death linked to heat, nine are tied to cold.”
Washington Post 02/16/2023
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Hot Air – Lede with a lie
“Police took Meyer’s computer and a router used by an Alexa smart speaker during the raid at her home, according to the paper. Officers at the Record’s office seized personal cellphones, computers, the newspaper’s file server and other equipment.”
“The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists. The law requires law enforcement to subpoena materials instead. Viar didn’t respond to a request to comment for this story or explain why she would authorize a potentially illegal raid.”
“For the second time in three years, The Washington Post has quietly ‘updated’ one of the most consequential fact checks in the history of American politics.”
“Two bodies have already been found trapped in the floating barrier.
It’s worth noting that authorities say those individuals drowned upriver and were caught in the buoys after they died, according to the Examiner — but why bother with the facts?”
“CNN would never have let a sour word on air about their savior Joe Biden until very recently. So we have to ask ourselves…
Do they simply see the writing on the wall, or have they gotten their orders from on high…”
“President Joe Biden’s family story has long been one of his greatest strengths politically.”
“With this in mind, it is time to catalog the sweeping tale that is the president’s history. As such, the timeline is extensive enough to become a multi-volume set of legendary tales, and thus we present an exclusive sampling of ‘Biden’s Fables,’ arranged chronologically for your fireside reading pleasure.”
“The suppression drive from the Biden White House came just five months after social media networks — including Facebook and Twitter — censored The Post’s coverage of Joe Biden’s links to his son Hunter’s business dealings in China and Ukraine that cited files on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.”
“You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you.”
“In 2019, Joe Biden claimed, ‘I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having to do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have.’
Today we learned that ‘Hunter then called his father, put him on speaker…and introduced the Ukrainians to Joe Biden…'”
“In order to provide clarity to the millions of Canadians and businesses who use our platforms, we are announcing today that we have begun the process of ending news availability permanently in Canada.”
“Another looming indictment for former President Donald Trump. Another day on the road selling the economy for President Joe Biden.”
“All that is required is chronic government stonewalling of reasonable requests for transparency. Then add in high officials serially lying under oath, along with the blatantly unequal application of the law. Institutionalize arguments from authority of politicians and bureaucrats who refuse to adjudicate arguments empirically.
Include the weaponization of investigatory and intelligence bureaucracies. Finish with the transformation of an obsequious media into a mouthpiece of the state.”
#1. The New York Times…
“Facebook/Meta then brags that when a “fact checker” it helps pay for rates a story as false, it uses that rating to downrank and kill 80 percent of the internet traffic to that story. That’s what it says in its own corporate communications. Given how often we’ve seen Facebook-funded fact-checkers produce politically distorted nonsense, the power given to these people ought to be alarming.”
“The wave of doubt surrounding Russell’s frightening experience highlights the underlying issue: When Black women go missing, there should be no room to question if their stories are valid or not. When white women are found safe, we hardly raise an eyebrow at whether they were really in danger or not. Instead, we celebrate their return.”
“Brzezinski’s request to Biden’s staff seems to be ‘make the 80-year-old in decline not appear to be an 80-year-old in decline’ and that’s quite a tall order.”
“After more than 130 years of being the premiere science and nature magazine in the world and one of the most iconic magazine brands of all time…
The magazine and brand, which was purchased by Disney in 2019…”
“As the anchor discussed a theory that a sea creature could’ve attacked the sub during its descent to the shipwrecked Titanic, the countdown clock showed oxygen reserves ticked backwards from six hours.”
“The New York Times article was replete with deceptive narratives, all designed to create the appearance that the investigation into Hunter Biden was politically motivated and lacking in merit.”
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