Commentary Chris Hardwick, the American comedian and actor, once said: “We’re not in an information age anymore. We’re in the information management age.” He’s right. We are. With so much information out there—a lot of good and a lot of it bad—it’s difficult to separate fact from fiction. This is why governments worldwide are stepping up…
CCP-Owned Media Targeted Tory Candidates in Last Federal Election: Disinformation Monitoring Expert
Chinese state media and pro-Beijing actors ran propaganda campaigns to smear the credibility of Conservative candidates in the last federal election, says the director of a foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking organization. The narratives pushed in those campaigns indicate a “likelihood of a coordinated operation” to influence Chinese-Canadian voters. Testifying before the parliamentary House Affairs…
FBI Agent Who Pushed to Censor Hunter Biden Story Is Shaping Biden Admin’s Response to ‘Misinformation’
An FBI agent who coordinated with Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story is advising the Biden administration in its push to suppress information on social media, according to leaked documents published by The Intercept. Laura Dehmlow was involved in conversations between the FBI and Facebook ahead of the social media company’s decision to censor the story surrounding…
Journalism in Crisis: The War on Dissent
October 31, 2022
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This article is based on speech by Whitney Webb to the First Annual Children’s Health Defense Conference on October 2022. Introduction and Background For years, the censorship of factual information that is inconvenient to certain powerful actors, including the U.S. Federal Government and Big Pharma, has been steadily increasing as “information warfare” has become an…
Changing of the Guard: Can Musk Deliver on His Promises for Free Speech and Information?
October 31, 2022
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Commentary Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his immediate firing of top brass represents a potential weakening of the Big Digital woke cartel that controls information, censers content, censures and bans users, and serves as a propaganda arm of leftist totalitarian statists. Given their cooperation with and promotion of leftist statism, it is more than evident that…
‘Pro-CCP Disinformation Campaign Attempts to Disrupt US Democratic Process’: Cybersecurity Watchdog
October 27, 2022
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In a report dated Oct. 26, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant identified new narratives pushed by dragonbridge, an online disinformation campaign. The report says that dragonbridge—in an effort to influence the U.S. midterm elections—has been aggressively seeking to create conflicts between the United States and its allies and within the U.S. political system. In an earlier report,…
Chinese Cyber Group Running Influence Campaign Targeting US Midterm Elections: Report
October 27, 2022
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In a report dated Oct. 26, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant identified new narratives pushed by Dragonbridge, an online disinformation campaign. The report says that Dragonbridge—in an effort to influence the U.S. midterm elections—has been aggressively seeking to create conflicts between the United States and its allies and within the U.S. political system. In an earlier report,…
TikTok Failed to Prevent 90 Percent of Election Misinformation: Report
October 21, 2022
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Social media giant TikTok approved most political advertisements containing false and misleading information about U.S. elections despite assurances from the company that it had a robust mechanism for detecting such content, a new report has found. TikTok approved 90 percent of advertisements that featured misleading and outright false information about the upcoming 2022 U.S. midterm…
Turkey Adopts Legislation That Could Jail Journalists for ‘Disinformation’
Turkish lawmakers have voted to adopt a law that aimed at preventing “disinformation” in the media and online, despite widespread concerns about the measure’s potential to quash free speech. Lawmakers from President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which together have a majority, voted in parliament on Thursday…
California Green-Lights Law to Combat ‘Hate Speech,’ ‘Misinformation’ on Social Media
October 12, 2022
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California now features a first-in-the-nation law requiring social media companies to publicly post their policies regarding “hate speech,” “disinformation,” “harassment,” and “extremism” on their platforms, and report data on their enforcement of the policies. Social media companies, through their Internet Coalition and other trade associations, vigorously opposed the new law. Court challenges are being considered,…
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