News Round-Up
14 January 2025
Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt
14 January 2025
by Will Jones
The Government is no longer funding the Global Disinformation Index, Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said, following criticism of the organisation for censoring non-woke and Right of centre views.
Climate: The Movie is the latest victim of Facebook's troubling reliance on biased fact-checking groups like Science Feedback, says Andy May.
"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.
Igor Chudov notes the evolving nature of conspiracy theories in Australia, citing the proposed 'Indigenous Voice to Parliament' constitutional change as another case of the Government and fact-checkers lying to the public.
Introducing iVerify, the United Nation’s new AI-powered fact-checking tool, designed to combat the spread of “disinformation, misinformation and hate speech”, i.e., any point of view the global elite disagrees with.
In case there was any remaining doubt that 'fact-checkers' are just activists putting their own spin on events, the BBC has appointed a Labour Party activist and Jeremy Corbyn fanboy as a 'political fact-checker'.
Another day passes, and another Daily Sceptic article is assailed by ‘fact checkers’. When will these zealous defenders of received opinion stop claiming our sceptical interpretations of the facts are factual errors?
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the tedium of having to deal with vexatious 'fact checks' by eco warriors, Prince Charles's tetchy complaints about Boris and a memorable night at the opera.
Three economists describe how pro-lockdown scientists and their lackeys in the mainstream media (aka 'fact checkers') set about trashing their paper which concluded lockdowns had little or no public health benefits.
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