News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Trusted News Initiative was founded by the BBC and unites the world's largest media agencies and tech megacorporations in a bid to shut down 'misinformation'. But its track record suggests it should not be trusted.
The BBC has been telling people to steer clear of independent news sites because they publish disinformation. After last week’s misreporting of the al-Ahli hospital explosion by the BBC, that claim rings a little hollow.
Was the BBC guilty of breaching its own impartiality rules during the first lockdown, given how one-sided its coverage was? More and more evidence suggests the answer is 'yes'.
The BBC's war on 'disinformation' – defined as anything contrary to the Government line – is just state censorship by another name, says Shiraz Akram.
Robert Kennedy Jr has filed a lawsuit in Texas against the Trusted News Initiative, a legacy media consortium, which he claims is designed to kill off online news rivals.
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