Labour and SNP politicians have laid an amendment to the Online Safety Bill to include "health-related misinformation and disinformation" as a form of "harmful” speech, ratcheting up the censorship yet further.
President Erdoğan is about to pass a law making the spreading of 'misinformation' online a criminal offence punishable by three years in jail. He has cited Germany and France's anti-misinformation laws as justification.
The UK Government claimed asymptomatic people testing positive for COVID-19 were just as likely to infect others. But a HUGE new study says they were 68% less likely to pass the virus on. Talk about misinformation!
A robust exchange of letters between a BBC climate producer and a former Top Gear producer shines a light on the BBC's willingness to broadcast alarmist climate stories with no basis in fact.
Slowly and surely the forces of climate science disinformation reach out from their academic bases to throttle debate and proscribe off-message reporting. They have conveniently forgotten the lesson of Climategate.
Governments concerned about Covid misinformation should start with their own lies and distortions, Indiana's Attorney General has told the U.S. Government. Read his nine examples of disinformation.
Barton Swaim, an editorial writer for the Wall St Journal, has written a brilliant piece describing how America's liberal elite have persuaded themselves that any opinion they disagree with is simply 'misinformation'.
The US, UK and 60 other countries have signed a sweeping “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” which commits to bolstering "resilience to misinformation” and censoring “harmful” content.
If we accept that European governments are entitled to censor RT on the grounds that it's pumping out 'misinformation', how long will it be before EU leaders use this as an excuse to ban other dissenting news sites?
Even if we just consider ‘misinformation’ surrounding the vaccines, the mainstream media comes out looking far worse than Rogan. Add in the ‘lab leak conspiracy theory’ narrative, and there’s really no comparison.
