The Australian Government's proposed misinformation bill may be "dead in the water" following significant pushback from opposition Senators in the upper house of the federal Parliament, says Frederick Attenborough.
A senior health official in Australia's Covid response has cautioned against the "weaponisation" of misinformation, calling for the Government's revamped misinformation bill to be "rejected in its entirety".
Prof James Alexander takes a look at the online tools and games developed by regime psychologists ostensibly to help identify 'misinformation' but really, he thinks, to train the next generation of Thought Police.
A "Citizens Council" backed by the German Government has submitted recommendations to the Ministry of the Interior calling, among other things, for the potential criminalisation of "disinformation".
Australia's new misinformation bill, crafted by those who squashed the Hunter Biden laptop story, threatens free speech, says Andrew Lowenthal. Social media will be the truth police, and the chill is real.
A 'disinformation portal' launched by the Australian Labour Party has reportedly been swamped with reports of the party's own misleading advertising, including posters of nuclear power stations next to Sydney Opera House.
Now that it's in power, Labour is prosecuting its "war on disinformation" with authoritarian relish. But what about all the disinformation being disseminated by the Government itself? asks Steven Tucker.
What exactly does Sir Keir Stalin have in mind by 'toughening up' the Online Safety Act? It's already an unbelievably censorious piece of legislation. Let's not make it even worse.
The Times has come out against online censorship in a leading article today, slamming 'press ratings agencies' like Global Disinformation Index as "self-appointed arbiters of truth" that undermine objective reporting.
The WHO has falsely claimed to have published the final Pandemic Treaty draft in the required time, four months before a key vote. Dr. David Bell sets the record straight and calls on the WHO to respect the rule of law.
