Fact-Checking is Dead, Killed by Snopes over Biden’s Broken Promise of $2,000 Checks
Snopes: $2,000 = $1,400
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Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech
Contrary to its image as a cash-strapped, open public service, Wikipedia tries to hide that it is a wealthy NGO with close ties to big tech.
Read more...Good Friday and Easter Church Raid Attempts by Police Over Covid Intensify Conservative Christian Vaccine Hesitancy
A doctor describes how the officialdom’s arrogant, “one size fits all” vaccine messaging is backfiring by alienating conservative Christians.
Read more...Twitter and YouTube Manipulation in Trial of Derek Chauvin for the Death of George Floyd?
Are our tech overlords trying to put their fingers on the coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial?
Read more...CalPERS Shoots Itself in the Foot: Undermines Its Position in Insolent Letter Demanding JJ Jelincic Drop His Case Against Secrecy Abuses
Not only is CalPERS in a poor position in defending against a suit by former board member JJ Jelincic, but its attorney isn’t helping.
Read more...How the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik Played His Readers for Chumps on Outdoor Dining and Aerosols — Including Me
The New Yorker anatomizes outdoor dining, without telling readers how to dine safely.
Read more...The Free Press versus Facebook and Google
Are Facebook and Google the new ‘public square’? Or are they publishers swiping content from others?
Read more...Facebook and Google vs the Free Press
The effort to contain Google and Facebook were only in the skirmish stage until Australia and Maryland upped the ante with their tax powers.
Read more...How the NATO Alliance Is Fighting Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine With Subsidies From State Budgets and the Gates Foundation, Hidden by bhe Financial Times
The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.
Read more...Department of Pre-Crime: Left-Wing Protester Arrested by FBI for Being on a “Path to Radicalization”
In the real world, the one we’re in now, the Department of Pre-Crime will not be this much fun. Nor will the good guys win.
Read more...Deathbed Confession: FBI and NYPD Responsible for Malcolm X Assassination
US police forces at a minimum set up the conditions that allowed for Malcolm X to be killed. How far does their culpability extend?
Read more...Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about reining in Google and restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
Read more...Thomas Frank: YouTube Censorship and Now What’s Happening in Kansas –
Thomas Frank and Paul Jay discuss censorship by tech monopolies and changes in the political landscape of Kansas.
Read more...Facebook Bans News in Australia to Avoid Paying Charges
Facebook shuts off news and important information in Australia to bullly the government into dropping a bill requiring it to share revenue.
Read more...Is There Really a Problem with Left Wing Extremism in the UK, or Is the Government Seeking Excuses to Suppress Fair Protest?
Governments on both sides of the pond are in “never let a crisis go to waste” mode. Aggression by the right is cause to stomp on a weak left.
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