News Round-Up
27 October 2024
by Will Jones
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by Will Jones
The French state regulator has hit popular Right-of-centre broadcaster CNews with a €20,000 fine for climate 'misinformation'. So long, Enlightenment, says Chris Morrison. Welcome to the authoritarian new dark age.
The U.S. Government invited the U.K. Counter Disinformation Unit to a high level meeting in summer 2021 to gain tips on how to censor the public, new documents reveal.
A 'disinformation portal' launched by the Australian Labour Party has reportedly been swamped with reports of the party's own misleading advertising, including posters of nuclear power stations next to Sydney Opera House.
Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration.
Now that it's in power, Labour is prosecuting its "war on disinformation" with authoritarian relish. But what about all the disinformation being disseminated by the Government itself? asks Steven Tucker.
What exactly does Sir Keir Stalin have in mind by 'toughening up' the Online Safety Act? It's already an unbelievably censorious piece of legislation. Let's not make it even worse.
If Keir Starmer gets his way and bans 'legal but harmful' content on social media, how long will it be before climate contrarianism is classified as 'misinformation'? asks Tilak K. Doshi.
Dr Tom Jefferson shares the complaint he has sent to Cochrane about the Editor in Chief's smearing of his Cochrane review which found no evidence masks work against respiratory viruses like Covid.
Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley has said claims of "two-tier" policing of civil disorder are "absolute nonsense" and are putting police officers in danger.
The majority of people charged over last week's riots live locally to the violent demonstrations which they allegedly joined, analysis has found, contradicting Keir Starmer's claim they were coming from out of town.
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