News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In its latest hit job on a climate change 'denier', BBC Verify has targeted a Kenyan subsistence farmer. His sin? Challenging the green blob's efforts to stop Africans benefitting from cheap energy. Ben Pile investigate.
BBC 'Disinformation Correspondent' Marianna Spring worries about Russian spies, trolls, bots and Brexiteers. But most of all she worries "real people" will be "emboldened" to talk about politics online.
Why did the BBC and ITV decide to smear Reform – on the same day! – with a baseless story about 'bots' boosting their support on social media, asks Ben Pile. It's the latest example of dissenters being smeared by the MSM.
BBC Verify should just explain things, and then let people decide for themselves, says David Frost in the Telegraph. But isn't that what the BBC is supposed to do anyway?
The BBC's war on misinformation is blatantly one-sided, says Simon Cottee. The 'misinformation' in mind is almost always from conservative sources, while the 'fact-checkers' aren't so accurate themselves.
Chris Morrison has uncovered more details about the 'climate journalism' course the BBC Verify correspondent is taking on his 6-month sabbatical. One lecturer discussed jailing those who spread climate 'misinformation'.
A BBC 'mis/disinformation' correspondent is taking a six-month sabbatical to enrol on a climate course funded by green billionaires so he can learn how to 'debunk' climate contrarians even more effectively.
The face of the BBC's new multi-million pound anti-disinformation unit, Marianna Spring, has been accused of spreading fake news by Carl Benjamin, who has complained to Ofcom and the BBC. Oddly, she hasn't responded.
The BBC's war on 'disinformation' – defined as anything contrary to the Government line – is just state censorship by another name, says Shiraz Akram.
The BBC's new multimillion pound Verify unit is paying an army of fact-checkers to root out 'misinformation'. The BBC should start with its own deluge of factually-dubious claims about the 'climate emergency'.
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