“Disinformation” – Page 9

DARPA wants to model how ‘disinformation’ flows from fringe to mainstream platforms

According to DARPA, “The discovery of pathways and patterns will move our understanding of information operations from today’s current focus on individual users, messages, memes, or campaigns to a higher level, structural and temporal understanding of how these operations unfold.”

In modeling the flow of information, the Pentagon’s research funding arm could potentially give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a powerful tool for its incoming “Disinformation Governance Board,” which critics are already calling the “Ministry of Truth.”

by Sarcasticat•May 16, 2022May 16, 2022•0•"Disinformation", "Surveillance Society", 1984

Threat of violent extremism increasing due to misinformation reports Liberal Party broadcaster that spread blatant lies about Freedom Convoy

Threat of violent extremism rising in Canada, MPs told.

The threat of violent extremism has increased in Canada during the pandemic — fuelled by misinformation and resulting in threats to politicians and public servants — top security and policing officials told members of Parliament on Thursday.

But while police and intelligence agencies are taking steps to detect extremists and prevent them from carrying out attacks, the government must also work proactively to counter the extremism in the first place, they added.

It should be law that all CBC articles come with a “paid content stamp”

Related – Democrats warn potential Trump return to Twitter could foment more violence

Democrats on Capitol Hill are sounding alarms this week over the possibility that Donald Trump could return to Twitter, warning that providing the former president with such a powerful megaphone could lead to violence on par with last year’s Capitol riot.

Trump was banned “permanently” from Twitter on Jan. 8, 2021, just two days after a mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol in a failed effort to overturn President Biden’s election win.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2022May 13, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", "extremists"

Nina Jankowicz says verified Twitter users should ‘edit’ others’ tweets

The “disinformation expert” tapped by President Biden to head a new US agency division that critics have likened to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” says that “verified” Twitter users should be able to edit other users’ tweets if they believe they are misleading.

by Blazingcatfur•May 12, 2022May 12, 2022•0•"Disinformation", WTF?

Giving The Government Control Over Defining ‘Misinformation’ Will Lead To Opposition Being Branded ‘Misinformation’

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government often talk about fighting ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’.

When they do so they aren’t talking about persuasion or respectful disagreement.

Rather, they’re talking about using the power of the government to define what is and isn’t ‘truth’.

by Sarcasticat•May 11, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Internet

The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board

There are dangers to using censorship as a political tool

In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s Democratic administration passed a piece of legislation it hoped would accelerate the end of the First World War. The new law didn’t directly concern the military — nor was it a revolutionary act of foreign policy. Rather, its target was ordinary American citizens.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Disinformation", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

DHS disinformation ‘czar’ Jankowicz pushed Trump-Russia claims at center of Durham case

If the Biden administration is so concerned about disinformation, it may want to take a closer look at its own “czar.”

Nina Jankowicz, who was recently tapped to head the Department of Homeland Security’s nascent Disinformation Governance Board, had no qualms about pushing the since-debunked claim in 2016 that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump had a tie to Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank — allegations that were raised by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and are now a focus of special counsel John Durham’s investigation.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Disinformation", WTF?

Rand Paul: The ‘Government Is Largely Disseminating Disinformation’

The U.S. federal government is one of the main disseminators of disinformation, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Monday, ripping the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board, which is purportedly intended to target online “misinformation.”

“I don’t trust government to figure out what the truth is,” Paul said on Monday, identifying the government as a source of routine misinformation.

by Sarcasticat•May 10, 2022May 9, 2022•0•"Disinformation", Government is never your friend

Meet Professor David Fisman of Canada

Want to see what a real misinformation spreader looks like? You’ve come to the right place. When challenged on his work, he runs for cover similar to what cockroaches do when you turn on the lights.

by Sarcasticat•May 9, 2022May 8, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Disinformation", Batshit Crazy Professors, vaccine controversy

Ministry of Truth Director Shares Thoughts on ‘Gender Disinformation’ in Eyebrow Lifting Video

Governance Disinformation Board Dir. Nina Jankowicz is an “expert.” I’ve been assured of it by the Biden administration and the news media. What are her credentials? Apparently, taking part in biased academic studies any undergraduate student could do and making TikTok videos.

by Blazingcatfur•May 6, 2022May 6, 2022•0•"Disinformation"

Biden’s new disinformation czar said fears about CRT in Loudoun County schools are ‘disinformation for profit’

Joe Biden’s new ‘disinformation czar’ dismissed concerns about Critical Race Theory in schools as ‘disinformation for profit’ – despite parents across the country being worried about the teaching of the philosophy in their children’s classrooms.

Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation expert who has worked throughout Eastern Europe, was hired on April 27 to lead a Homeland Security Department working group designed to help its different agencies in dealing with disinformation on topics ranging from migration to plots from Russia and Iran.

by Blazingcatfur•May 5, 2022May 5, 2022•0•"Disinformation", WTF?

All Hail America’s New Truth Czar!

If you heard about the recent birth of a new government committee called the Disinformation Governance Board—which will operate out of the Department of Homeland Security and be run by a woman named Nina Jankowicz who writes songs about misinformation for fun—you could be forgiven for thinking you hit your head and woke up in 1984. Rest assured, you did not. It’s entirely real.

by Blazingcatfur•May 4, 2022May 4, 2022•0•"Disinformation"

Jen Psaki is Asked Point Blank About Biden’s New Disinformation Board. Her Response is Damning.

“President Biden has set up a toothless ‘disinformation’ board headed-up by a woke so-called expert who’s against free speech and tried to pour cold water on the Hunter laptop scandal,” the Daily Mail reported.

by Sarcasticat•May 3, 2022May 3, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", Biden Family Corruption

How Republican Senators Can Defund Biden’s Dystopic ‘Disinformation Board’

In an apparent homage to George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” — one the rest of us realize is a pointed political allegory but the Biden administration apparently views as a handbook — the Biden White House is establishing a Disinformation Governance Board.

Yes, you read that correctly. The government is going to decide what’s true and what’s false, and punish disseminators accordingly. The bureaucrats who run the Department of Homeland security, where this board will be housed, are going to be parsing fact from fiction, obviously to keep us all safe from the scourge of independent judgment and thought.

by Sarcasticat•May 2, 2022May 2, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", Government is never your friend, Thought Crime

Government that regularly lies trumpets its fight against ‘disinformation’

On April 27, the Department of Homeland Security trumpeted the creation of a Disinformation Governance Board, which will supposedly battle disinformation.

But why should a government that lies constantly take on the task of deciding what information is true or false? As the Supreme Court noted in Thomas v. Collins, in the realm of political debate, “‘every person must be his own watchman for truth, because the forefathers did not trust any government to separate the truth from the false for us.’”

by Sarcasticat•May 2, 2022May 1, 2022•0•"Disinformation", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", Censorship, Government is never your friend