A former Biden administration official who oversaw a federal initiative against alleged disinformation filed a civil lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday, alleging that the news outlet defamed her and damaged her career. Nina Jankowicz, former head of the now-disbanded Disinformation Governance Board, alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday that Fox News, via figures like…
Fox News Sued for Defamation by Biden’s Former Disinformation Chief
May 12, 2023
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CSIS Report Says China Committing Espionage Against Canadian Institutions, Defence Contractors
May 4, 2023
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The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) 2022 report stated that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is continuing to engage in espionage against Canadian academic institutions, defence contractors, and civil society organizations. “As a global leader in research and innovation, Canada is a prime target for the PRC’s intangible technology transfer efforts. China targets research through…
Meet the VLOPs! The EU Extends Its Censorship Powers
May 4, 2023
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Commentary On Tuesday last week, the European Commission announced its first list of designated Very Large Online Platforms—or VLOPs—that will be subject to “content moderation” requirements and obligations to combat “disinformation” under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). As VLOPs, the designated services will be required “to assess and mitigate their systemic risks and to provide…
National Citizen’s Inquiry: Psychiatrist Criticizes Lack of Emphasis on Treatment During Pandemic
May 3, 2023
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On the second day of the National Citizen’s Inquiry’s (NCI) stop in British Columbia, a psychiatrist questioned the lack of emphasis governments and public health authorities placed on potential treatments for COVID-19, instead focusing on the creation and distribution of vaccines. “I have absolutely no idea why our government and our public health people did…
Poilievre Shares Video Contrasting Trudeau’s Definition of Disinformation and Claim He Didn’t Force Vaccination
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre shared a video contrasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s definition of disinformation at an event on April 24, and his claims that the Liberal government did not force COVID-19 vaccination on Canadians during the pandemic. The video starts with Trudeau saying that disinformation is “when things that are false, things that are…
Trudeau Defends COVID Vaccination Record, But Says Some ‘Probably Got Very Sick’ From Jabs
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his COVID-19 vaccination policy helped Canada get through the pandemic and criticized related “misinformation and disinformation,” but he also said some people experienced side effects from the shots. “The challenge that we have now is that increasingly, misinformation and disinformation [are] carrying people to believe things that are untrue. Vaccinations…
The Surveillance State Is on the March
Commentary As a working principle, the conviction that things are always worse than they seem is hard to beat. Along with the observation from William Dean Howells that the problem for a critic isn’t making enemies but keeping them, that mournful conviction that things are worse than they seem has the twin clarifying advantage of…
The Disinformation-Industrial Complex vs. Domestic Terror
March 24, 2023
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Combating disinformation has been elevated to a national security imperative under the Biden administration, as codified in its first-of-its-kind National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, published in June 2021. That document calls for confronting long-term contributors to domestic terrorism. In connection therewith, it cites as a key priority “addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a…
The Problematic Rise of Media Literacy Education
March 24, 2023
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New Jersey is enlisting public-school teachers and librarians to show children how to combat what it calls the grave threat of disinformation. “Our democracy remains under sustained attack through the proliferation of disinformation,” Gov. Phil Murphy said in signing the nation’s first law mandating “information literacy” instruction for all K-12 students. The law, which aims to provide students…
‘Twitter Files’ Alleges Collusion Between Government, Stanford Project to Censor COVID Vaccine Misinformation
Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi released the latest version of “The Twitter Files” on March 17, this time about alleged collusion between Stanford University’s Virality Project and Twitter to censor what they deemed misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. The Virality Project (VP) also colluded with the U.S. government, alleged Taibbi. “Though the Virality Project reviewed content…
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