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Labour Has Declared “War on Disinformation”. Does That Mean it’s Going to Start Attacking Itself?

by Steven Tucker
27 August 2024 7:00 AM

Do you remember Popobawa? He (or it) first hit the headlines in 1995, back when laughing at foreigners was still allowed, causing much hilarity in Western media. Popobawa was supposed to be a bat-winged sex-demon or djinni of some unspeakably hideous kind who had abruptly manifested on the island of Zanzibar, off the east coast of Africa, where he kept on popping up in people’s bedrooms in the middle of the night and forcibly bumming them half to death.

The general local explanation for the social panic was that 1995 was the year of Zanzibar’s first free, multi-party elections, the incubus-like entity reputedly being in the pay of the ruling CCM Party, who planned to use the creature to distract voters from bothering to go to the ballot-box to chuck them out. Social media being as yet unknown, the Zanzibarians still had to spread these careless whispers by word of mouth, leading to widespread public disorder and riots, in which foreigners were frequently targeted. A minority ethnic group, the Makonde, originally slaves and cheap labourers brought in from the African mainland by the island’s old rulers, were slandered as being the alien conjurors responsible for summoning Popobawa, with the result that several were killed by baying mobs.


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varmint
varmint
8 months ago

“Misinformation” —But according to who? How many times will we see two “experts” on TV. One says one thing and the other says the very opposite. So which one of those versions from “experts” is “misinformation”? Is it not the case that there may be some element of truth in both of their versions? Or it may be the case that both are totally wrong. So who is to decide this? —-The Government? I hope not because when it comes to “misinformation” government are probably World and European Champions. You don’t get much more “misinformation” than being told as if it were all some kind of ultimate truth that there is a “Climate Crisis”. ——-I can point to very many “experts” who disagree with that. So who is telling the truth? ——Should we not just let all information flow and let people decide for themselves?

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
8 months ago
Reply to  varmint

The ‘truth’ is told by those ‘experts’ who are able to most closely insinuate themselves with the government. They then use their position as witch-finder general to denounce dissenting views as dis-/misinformation.

Three hundred years ago it was the church in that elevated position. Nowadays that disgusting worm Welby, realising his influence is gone, has caved and capitulated to the woke religion.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
8 months ago
Reply to  varmint

Its an easy mistake to make, but this has nothing to do with the truth, and everything to do with ‘the Truth’.

As for misogyny, it is bandied about by people who, like with ‘racist’, expand and corrupt its meaning and use it as a slur to shut people (men…) up. Shame if anyone falls into the trap of thinking this is a real widespread phenomena by its strict definition.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
8 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Only someone ‘far right’ would say something like that. 😇

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
8 months ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

You may think that. I couldn’t possibly comment..

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
8 months ago

I’m pleased Bridget Phillipson is so strong on misogyny.

I’m sure she’ll be cracking down hard on misogynists hanging round school gates, pestering schoolgirls.  

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Mogwai
Mogwai
8 months ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Well the young waitress at Nandos who got assaulted by a Muslim man when he hit her over the head with a plate has said her attacker got off Scott free. In fact, the irony that she explains below is that there were two police officers in the restaurant when it happened, waiting for their food, she went to them for help and the male officer took the attacker outside and he just left, no action taken, and the female officer was just laughing and joking with the wife, who’d been following the waitress calling her a ”fat bitch”. The police even dissuaded her from pressing charges. Would this Muslim psycho have assaulted a male waiter? No idea, but misogyny or not an assault took place, nothing’s being done about it whilst people are being sent down for online posts and memes, so it beggars belief really;

”Two Met police officers in Nandos refused to assist a young waitress who wanted to press charges after a violent Muslim male verbally abused her and hit her on the head with a plate.
Was this more “community policing” where the vile misogyny of certain groups is overlooked?”

https://x.com/AllisonPearson/status/1828010318489956444

The clip showing the assault, for those who haven’t already seen it. Only due to the attention and outrage this incident received have the police, presumably due to the pressure and scrutiny from the public and social media coverage, reopened the case and are looking for the man. It’s almost like if there’s no white people to arrest they can’t be arsed, the ‘race card’ exempts these entitled scumbags who don’t belong amongst decent people;

https://x.com/Mr_Ashthetics/status/1827714076488958039

Last edited 8 months ago by Mogwai
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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
8 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

If people have no respect for the law, because they see that it really isn’t being applied with any rigour to them, then they will do what they wish without fear of consequences. This applies across the board, because of our lax policing (i.e. regarding shoplifting and other petty theft…) and a judiciary who seem to want to make excuses for the defendants. Career criminals who commit a hundred crimes yet don’t get custodial sentences is common-place, so I’m told. In fact in the choice of Deliveroo driver or Petty Criminal, the latter looks like it has better pay and prospects, and you can still choose your own hours.

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varmint
varmint
8 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Vomit inducing pandering to minorities all supposedly not to disrupt social cohesion. But we don’t have cohesion mostly because of these people anyway, and the more we pander the less cohesion there will be.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
8 months ago
Reply to  varmint

As basic as the schoolyard bully!

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john1T
john1T
8 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Clearly Muslims get a free pass on misogyny. Just like racism, you have to be white to be targeted for that particular crime.

Last edited 8 months ago by john1T
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Mogwai
Mogwai
8 months ago
Reply to  john1T

Exactly, john. Which is why this entire ”extreme misogyny=terrorism” lark is a total farcical non-starter and an insult to everyone’s intelligence if they continue to ignore the herd of elephants in the room that is Islam. Our governments have imported the damn misogyny problem, that much is clear, along with the terrorism problem, increased crime problem, housing crisis etc etc. The way I see it, assault is assault, irrespective of what gender the victim or the perpetrator are, and should be dealt with accordingly. But what happens if you’re in somewhere like Birmingham, where seemingly the Muslim community police themselves because Sharia trumps UK law? Good luck getting any kind of justice in such places if you’re non-Muslim. We don’t need any silly, nonsensical extra laws. They just need to apply the ones they’ve already got to everyone, fair and square.

Meanwhile, here’s more that are swimming to Ceuta, which is 18 miles from the Spanish mainland, from Morocco. I’m pretty sure they’ll get taxied over the rest of the way;

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1827817115216212152

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
8 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

It makes me wonder when I see the RNLI advert asking for handouts. They show a family in the Boat, but the reality is they are usually full up with young men. Not that I have a problem with men being one myself, despite starting to age a bit. But whether you are a man or woman, groups of guys do pose a threat. It is pretty basic.

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Claphamanian
Claphamanian
8 months ago

Just as the Iranian regime blames foreign actors whenever there’s some domestic disturbance that challenges its authority, the British state under Labour now does the same.

The hallmark of any authoritarian regime is its unhealthy interest in other people’s children.

No wonder Labour were careful not to drop the Ming vase during the election campaign. It’s evidently full of unpleasant policies.

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
8 months ago

Disinformation: information that the Left doesn’t want you to see.
Hate speech: opinion that the Left doesn’t want you to hear.
That’s about it.

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myk
myk
8 months ago

I’m disgusted by the way the main stream media have reported the recent stabbings in Germany, 3 dead 8 injured, and Notting Hill, 5 stabbed 3 life threatening.
Their main focus of the reporting was worrying that they might give support to the ‘far right ‘. Not the welfare of the victims and their families nor the future safety of the general public. The headlines were ‘mostly peaceful’ or ‘celebration of diversity’

 

 

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
8 months ago

” organised ‘far-Right’ do really exist instead”….We the “far right” do need to organise before it is too late. I notice 2TK will not speak to GB News so far.

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Gerry England
Gerry England
8 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

GB News has been really good on sarcasm this morning over the Notting Hill Stab Fest. Wondering why we haven’t heard from Two Tier in his morning sermon, Pixie Balls, whoever or indeed whatever the ‘communitees’ secretary is, Ghengis Khan etc. We all know they would have been bleating to the fascist BBC/Guardian if the Tories were still in power.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
8 months ago

“I know. Given I know that LGBTQ+ people are commonly subjected to discrimination and potential arrest in Algeria”

That is a non sequitur for a start. Don’t assume ‘this’ follows ‘that’ when they have no logical connection.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
8 months ago

” like when Vladimir Putin cunningly made me vote for Brexit back in 2016 without my even knowing it”

LOL and me!

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
8 months ago

” [again, I’m sure she means ‘children’]” She will deem them vulnerable kids when she wants; other times she may refer to them as mature teenagers with agency when politically convenient.

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CGW
CGW
8 months ago

The clear implication was that us superior white Westerners would never be taken in by false rumours so easily. Fast forward to 2024, …

Why so far as 2024? 2020 was the “Pandemic”.

Seemingly, “our young people [again, I’m sure she means ‘children’]” need “more than ever before to be questioning, critical, discerning”, being given “the confidence to speak up and speak out” about “the things they see and read”, in order that they become “wary of narratives, as well as drawn to them” …

And this should apply not so much to children but to UK judges, who have great freedom in interpreting law and sentencing. Some judges are obviously desirous to impress their political masters.

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Myra
Myra
8 months ago

How come we continue to
let politicians lie? It should be a sackable offence.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
8 months ago
Reply to  Myra

No, it should be a jail-able offense. That would rid us of nearly all of them!

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marebobowl
marebobowl
8 months ago

Still waiting for an apology from every single politician for getting the covid vaxxes sooo wrong. So many injured from them. Also an apology for lying about masks, social distancing, school and business closures for starters. Let us begin with these misinformers first please.

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rachel.c
rachel.c
8 months ago
Reply to  marebobowl

So much damage to people’s lives, not forgetting the elderly but for the young the impact will be the longest. And, all the vaccine injured and bereaved. Let’s have a national monument for TPTB to lay their wreaths at and hang their heads in shame.

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iconoclast
iconoclast
8 months ago

Vaccine misinformation was excluded from the Online Safety Act’s categories of information caught.

The Government would otherwise have found itself being perpetually prosecuted.

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iconoclast
iconoclast
8 months ago
Reply to  iconoclast

And so far no one has reported Two-Tier Keir for misinformation by claiming all the rioters were ‘Far Right’ when he had no evidence whatsoever to justify it.

The man is an out and out liar in my humble opinion. And it is unlikely he will be suing me any time soon for expressing that view.

His wife and kids will no doubt be kept safe from the deluge of thugs and rapists and murderers he is letting out of gaol early in order to make room to bang up old women and the like for typing things on Facebook.

The man disgusts me.

And I am continually amazed at how unfazed he is and how relaxed he looks with all the mess he and his colleagues have created in recent weeks. No lack of sleep for Two-Tier Keir.

Other Prime Ministers started looking care-worn early in their premierships.

Why is this relevant?

I think it indicates there is something seriously wrong psychologically with the man and that he is not all right ‘upstairs’.

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iconoclast
iconoclast
8 months ago
Reply to  iconoclast

What a manifesto promise means in Two Tier Keir’s political playbook.

After-Elected-Vegetarian
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Michael Staples
Michael Staples
8 months ago

How is the prosecution of Chris Packham, for suggesting customers of Barclays Bank stick their heads in a bucket of fuel and set like to it, going?

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coviture2020
coviture2020
8 months ago

Where does Labours fight against misinformation sit with Mark Zuckerbergs recent confession?

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
8 months ago

Misinformation and disinformation are two non-words coined by idiots who want to stop “free” speech, that is things they don’t want to hear. If it were criminal to say things that are untrue (that used to be called lies), the prisons would be so full of politicians and members of pressure groups that the world would end. The first would be Ed Millibrain, he is convinced that zero energy use can be completed by 2030 that he says so. Then 2Tkier is so convinced that all of the white British population are hard right extremists that he will jail any who speak very reasonably, having abused them all in the Media. Somehow judges (usually simple magistrates) have been convinced to throw sentencing guidelines out of the window on the word of 2Tkier. GBH is now not as bad as a bit of social media comment it seems, the attacker of NF being let off with a suspended sentence. Is the man totally mad, pretending to be the new Dictator of England (he seems unable to fix either Wales or Scotland), because his actions speak much louder than his rhetoric. BTW, what is “net zero” anyway unless we consider imported product energy consumption, which we don’t. If one did the whole net zero thing would be dead and buried.

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