News Round-Up
23 April 2025
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.
An article in JAMA calls for physicians who spread 'misinformation' about COVID-19 to be punished. But the prevailing orthodoxy in medical science must always be subject to challenge if our knowledge is to increase.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky knew that Covid vaccines did not stop infections in January 2021 but continued to claim they did and promote policies based on it, a newly released email reveals.
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.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Boris Johnson quitting Parliament, Trump being indicted on federal charges and the BBC's war on 'disinformation'.
According to investigative reporter Robert Kogon, Elon Musk's claim that Twitter has withdrawn from the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation is an empty boast. In reality, it is still complying.
The U.K. Government is set to spend £600,000 ($755,000) on social media surveillance to identify “harmful disinformation and misinformation narratives”.
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