The one-week suspension was issued following a review of Sky News Australia’s “old videos,” the channel announced on Sunday. Under the terms of the temporary ban, for seven days, YouTube will allow no videos or livestreams to be posted by the channel, which has 1.86 million subscribers, and some earlier videos …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: Our media continue to destroy our lives with misinformation; They need to be held accountable
The media’s daily and nightly arrogance is dangerous and deadly for many struggling Americans who listen to their garbage. This is a media that won’t ‘fact check’ our doddering president when he tells the nation that if you get the Covid vaccine, it will stop you from getting Covid. This …
Read More »YouTube censors Brazilian president’s videos over Covid misinformation concerns
The YouTube channel features regular videos of national addresses, as well as conversations with ministers, former officials, and medical professionals, with the president personally having expressed his critical views of lockdowns, mask wearing, and vaccination programs. One of the videos removed by YouTube featured the country’s former health minister, Eduardo …
Read More »Social media misinformation ‘killing people,’ Biden says, as White House doubles down on private censorship
“They’re killing people,” Biden told reporters who asked him to send a message to platforms like Facebook. “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people,” he shouted, over the noise of a helicopter outside the White House on Friday. On Thursday, US Surgeon General Vivek …
Read More »Biden and the DNC want to censor text messages to stop ‘misinformation’ – well, ‘if it saves just one life,’ who needs privacy?
The US government is done playing “good cop” with regard to the “vaccine hesitant.” The Biden administration, which recently opted to send ‘volunteer’ vaccinators door to door in what may be the most ill-thought-out public health campaign in US history, doesn’t just want to meddle with your body anymore – …
Read More »Facebook censors those who spread ‘misinformation,’ but looks the other way while pimps abuse children
The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Facebook can be held liable for the conduct of pimps and traffickers on its platform – a landmark decision that opens the firm up to further legal action from a trio of teenage trafficking victims. In the suit, filed in 2018, the …
Read More »No, YOU are fake news: Satire site forces New York Times to retract calling them ‘misinformation’
“This is huge. The NY Times was using misinformation to smear us as being a source of it,” Bee CEO Seth Dillon tweeted on Monday, calling it “malicious” behavior. “We pushed back hard and won. Thanks to everyone who voiced and offered their support. We don’t have to take this …
Read More »YouTube suspends Senator Ron Johnson for Covid-19 ‘misinformation’
Johnson was suspended from posting new content to his channel for one week, apparently because of a video in which he discussed alternative Covid-19 treatments. A YouTube spokesman told The Hill on Friday that the offending video, which was removed from the platform, violated its policy against speech encouraging people …
Read More »In algorithms we trust? Twitter draws criticism over potential new ‘misinformation warning’ system
Tech blogger Jane Manchun Wong, who is known for reverse engineering apps to find hidden features, revealed on Monday that she had come across a tiered warning label system that Twitter is toying with, apparently in an effort to expand its crackdown on ‘misinformation’. According to Wong, Twitter could potentially …
Read More »‘Look in the mirror’: New York Times ripped for warning about ‘deadly misinformation’
“Misinformation about the violence between Israelis and Palestinians has run rampant on social media,” the newspaper declared on Twitter, pointing to an article by reporter Sheera Frenkel which highlighted some examples. The Times also warned that the “effect of the lies could prove deadly,” citing Israel-based political analyst Arieh Kovler …
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