Tag: Misinformation

Sometimes Trump's mercantilist thinking is so radical as to be wildly, crazily brilliant, as with the Gaza Riviera plan. But on Ukraine it's letting him – and the West – down, says Ian Rons.

According to a new political science article highlighted in the Guardian, "Misinformation and radical-Right populism must henceforth be understood as inextricable". Apparently, everyone else always only tells the truth.

The Science Museum has repeated the claim that Roberta Cowell was Britain's 'first transgender woman'. This is false, says Zack Stiling. She was biologically female. Worse, she would have hated the trans movement.

Nanny state zealots, in a post-pandemic world obsessed with what's good and bad for us, have ensured all debate remains tilted in their direction using skewed statistics and emotional anecdotes, says Abbie MacGregor.

The Covid Inquiry is being led by the wrong experts (lawyers) who are asking the wrong questions of the wrong people. It's not only ignoring scientific evidence but actively suppressing it, says Dr Andrew Bamji.

Questioning the deadliness of Covid and climate change is "seditious", according to Lord Richard Allan, the UK's new chief censor under the Online Safety Act. 1984 was supposed to be fiction, says Laurie Wastell.

The Covid Inquiry has turned to look at the Government's Counter Disinformation Unit. But it's only question is whether the censorship went far enough, say Molly Kingsley and Alan Black. Trust in public health will suffer.

German political elites are freaking out as the AfD continues to poll high, boosted by the perfidious Musk. Clamping down on "unfiltered opinions" that undermine "democracy" has become the latest obsession, says Eugyppius.

Mark Zuckerberg's repudiation of Covid-era censorship is welcome. But it's not enough, say Josh Stylman and Jeffrey Tucker. Without a public reckoning they will just do it all again when a cause seems urgent enough.

Led by Donkeys, the group behind anti-Brexit and assorted other Left-wing stunts, was set up by four Greenpeace activists who have a lot of curious links to the Blob, says Charlotte Gill.