Tag: misinformation

Twitter’s Censorship Resembles Communist China’s

Commentary On March 21, 2006, someone decided to send something called a tweet. A rather banal message, it included the following five words: “just setting up my twttr.” The person responsible for the tweet was Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter. In the almost 16 years since the Tweet was sent, the microblogging site has gone from…


Waukesha: The Shame of the Media

Commentary The willful avoidance of facts and deliberate obscuring of what happened in Waukesha, Wisconsin is a low point in American journalism nationally. It is stunning how much the propaganda media distorted and misreported the massacre at the Christmas parade last week. Here are the facts: The alleged killer, Darrell Brooks Jr., is an African…


Australian Indigenous Community at Heart of Social Media Rumors Refute Claims

Two Aboriginal residents of  Binjari and Rockhole, on the outskirts of Katherine,  have posted on social media that claims circulating of forced vaccinations are untrue and that they are being treated with respect and dignity by authorities,  NT News reported on Thursday. This comes on the back of claims on Twitter earlier in the week…


Indigenous Health Worker Calls Out ‘Misinformation’ About Australia’s Northern Territory COVID-19 Response

An Australian Indigenous health worker currently in a COVID-19 quarantine facility in the Northern Territory (NT) has called online posts critical of the territory government’s outbreak response “disgusting.” Social media posts have attacked the NT government over the evacuation of residents from Indigenous communities, likening it to the policies used under the Stolen Generation period,…


Texas Doctor Resigns After Houston Hospital Suspends Her for ‘Spreading Dangerous Misinformation’ About COVID-19

A Texas doctor who was suspended from Houston Methodist hospital last week after they accused her of spreading “dangerous  misinformation” about COVID-19 has resigned from her role. Dr. Mary Bowden, an ear, nose, and throat doctor, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday that she had parted ways with the hospital while thanking her followers for their support. “I have…


Australian Indigenous Senator’s Family Make up Bulk of New COVID-19 Cases in Northern Territory

Senator Malarndirri McCarthy has confirmed that nine out of the 11 new positive COVID-19 cases in the Northern Territory (NT) are her direct family members. In an interview with ABC news on Wednesday morning, she said that it was a distressing time and that her family members currently in the Centre for National Resilience (CNR)…


On Misinformation 

Commentary When Donald Trump started talking about “fake news,” the charge hit home so squarely that the media had to come up with a strong rejoinder, something to deflect it. They couldn’t outright deny it, for too many news flashes turned out to be just that, altogether fake (the pee tape, Jussie Smollett, the Covington…


‘Significant’ Security Concerns: Tory Candidate on Trudeau’s Book Deal With CCP-Controlled Publisher

The past publishing deal with a CCP-controlled company that printed Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s personal memoir in China raises concerns not only from an ethics perspective but also one of national security, a Tory candidate says. “We are very concerned about the fact that the Prime Minister of Canada would have a personal publishing deal…


Leaked Zoom Video Reveals Hospital Officials Discussing COVID-19 Scare Tactics

A leaked Zoom conference reveals a doctor questioning how to increase the count of COVID-19 patient numbers on the hospital’s dashboard report. The media outlet National File said it obtained the recording from an “internal source” at the Novant Health System that includes New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina. National File posted…


Why No One Trusts the Media in Thirty Minutes or Less

It’s no secret that trust in the mainstream media has fallen to record lows within the last decade. Recent polls show a paltry 16 percent of the U.S. population currently trust televised news content to be giving them accurate information, while newspapers garner only 21 percent confidence in their reporting. Only Congress fares worse with…