The Chinese regime leveraged its propaganda in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic to spread its totalitarian ideologies to the West, according to former Hong Kong Apple Daily columnist Simon Lee. “When COVID started, China [was] concerned only on one thing—how can they capitalize on this crisis to show the world that China’s system is superior to…
China Uses Pandemic Propaganda to Spread Totalitarian Ideologies: HK Columnist
The Great Translation Movement Will Continue Exposing the CCP: Manager
The Great Translation Movement (Movement), a Twitter account that translates the propaganda that’s publicized inside China and makes it available to the outside world, was suspended on July 28. Experts believe this happened because posts from malicious Chinese internet trolls broke the Twitter abuse rules. The Movement was launched to reveal to Western readers what…
Confucius Institutes 2.0: Chinese Government Money Speaks Loudly
Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary In the book “Red Handed,” we meet a remarkable young man named Nathan Law, the Chinese-born, Hong Kong-raised leader of a pro-democracy effort called the “Umbrella Movement,” which protested Beijing’s crackdowns on freedom in Hong Kong. His efforts were brutally crushed by the Chinese government and Nathan Law went to…
The Culpability of the New York Times: Then and Now
Commentary On Feb. 27, 2020, weeks before full disease panic hit the United States, the New York Times podcast started preparing the way with an interview with its lead virus reporter Donald G. McNeil. He promoted panic and lockdowns (“This is alarmist, but I think right now, it’s justified”), and reinforced the point in the next day’s print edition…
Trust the American People, Not the January 6 Committee
Commentary As I wrote in my last column, I was stunned when Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Times reported that the Jan. 6 Committee “has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and obtained more than 25,000 documents related to last year’s riot at the Capitol — yet most of the evidence remains a secret.” I described…
Trust the American People, Not the Jan. 6 Committee
Commentary As I wrote in my last column, I was stunned when Susan Ferrechio of The Washington Times reported that the Jan. 6 House Select Committee “has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and obtained more than 25,000 documents related to last year’s riot at the U.S. Capitol—yet most of the evidence remains a secret.” I…
How to Model Fallacy, According to the Lancet
Commentary There is supposed to be a clear line between medical publishing and propaganda. No less so than in the pages of the Lancet, previously considered a relative bastion of integrity in publishing. Honesty in medical publishing, meaning publication on the basis of transparent rigorous review and impartiality, is of particular importance to medicine and public…
Most Journalists Are Scientifically Unqualified
This is a chapter from the book forthcoming “Lies My Government Told Me,” available now for pre-order. Why does anyone rely on reporters to interpret scientific articles? They lack the necessary training, experience, and competence to interpret scientific publications and data, a skill which typically requires decades to master. With few exceptions, corporatized media are not…
The Spies Who Loathe Us
News Analysis In the early days of Social Media—it must have been around the year 2005—a friend wrote that she would stay off completely and forever. She valued her privacy. She saw absolutely no gain to posting her whereabouts and goings on for the world to see. The state can too easily take that information…
Capitol Report (June 21): Twitter Board Gives Nod to Musk Twitter Takeover; CCP Rebrands Confucius Institutes
Voters are headed to the polls in key primary races. We’ll tell you which races have the potential to impact the balance of power in Washington. Tyler Alcorn is a four-tour, Special Forces combat veteran, and he is running for office in the state of Colorado. We ask him why he feels the need to…
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