News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
No Phones in Lavatories
5 May 2024
by Joanna Gray
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.
Despite the very limited extent of the wrinklies' boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan's vaccine 'misinformation', Rogan has apologised for "pissing off" Spotify – after Spotify imposed new warnings on pandemic content.
Just when you thought Neil Young's boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan was fizzling out, Prince Harry and Meghan step in to keep it fizzling a little longer, "expressing concern" about "misinformation" on the platform.
A new Royal Society report says social media companies should not censor content that challenges the the scientific establishment's orthodoxy about climate change, lockdowns and the vaccines.
Dr Michael Mosley has written a piece in the Mail criticising those like Novak Djokovic who say they are protected by antibodies from previous infection, claiming the vaccines are better. Here's what he gets wrong.
Contrary to the claims made by Dr Rachel Clarke and Professor Stephen Powis last month, new data out this week shows that the majority of Covid ICU admissions in October and November were among the vaccinated.
The UK Statistics Authority has written to the ONS to censure it for a recent report claiming that the risk of death with Covid was "32 times greater in unvaccinated people than in fully vaccinated individuals".
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