News Round-Up
24 April 2024
Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court case challenging Government censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a distraction from the real threat to Americans' freedom of speech, says Robert Kogon.
Cambridge University 'misinformation researcher' Sander van der Linden picked a fight with Nate Silver recently and ended up looking like a fraud who edits his Wikipedia page through a legion of sock puppet accounts.
The worry that a new French law criminalises opposition to mRNA vaccines is based on a misunderstanding, says Robert Kogon – though the law is troubling enough.
The Canadian Government used faked intelligence (aka disinformation) to frame the Freedom Convoy anti-vaccine-mandate protesters as violent extremists and justify invoking the Emergencies Act, an investigation has found.
The UKHSA has declared a "national incident" over the number of measles cases in the West Midlands. Many have blamed vaccine 'misinformation' for low vaccine take-up. But this doesn't add up.
Forget the Ukraine war, the escalating Middle East conflicts and China's threats to Taiwan. The elites gathered at Davos last week heard that the world's "top concern" is "disinformation". They're coming for our thoughts.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor reviews a new book on information warfare by Andreas Krieg. It's good, but has a blindspot about deployment of information warfare by democratic governments against their own citizens.
Social media censors are using 'disinformation' claims to silence free speech, 136 academics, historians and journalists have warned Rishi Sunak.
"Fact-checking is clearly an enterprise devoted towards furthering a very specific political programme under the false cover of objectivity," writes Eugyppius as he reviews the outpourings of one prolific fact checker.
The BBC's Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring is facing claims that she lied about her experience on her CV, which would make her responsible for some 'disinformation' of her own.
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