After referring to the very real practice of the funding of terrorist families as a "far right conspiracy theory," the NY Times was forced to issue a retraction.
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Using Artificial Intelligence to create fake videos will make the truth even more difficult to discern than it already is.
Anything you see on TV might very well be fake. I know. I know. Most of it already is. But the technology to make advanced “fake videos” of people saying fake things or doing fake things now exists with the help of advanced Artificial Intelligence.
That’s right, it’s now possible to create a fake news video of President Trump endorsing a Democrat or Sean Hannity offering “evidence” for Russia-gate. BuzzFeed and MonekyPaw Productions used artificial intelligence (AI) to create a fake video in which former President Barrack Obama slings profanity and offers his opinion on the movie Black Panther.
The actual “Obama” in the video is actor Jordan Peele who in reality looks nothing like the ex-president. Peele talks, but it looks as if Obama is saying the words. The process uses AI to manipulate video so it looks as if Peele’s words are coming out of Obama’s mouth.
How “Terrorist Created” Fake News Could Lead to Chaos
The greatest danger from using artificial intelligence or “AI” this way is obvious – the bad guys now have the ability to put fake news into anybody’s mouth. (That means false flag operations as well.)
An obvious strategy to generate panic would be a fake clip of CBS Anchor Jeff Glor or Fox News’ Bill Hemmer saying that terrorists are about to detonate a nuclear weapon in New York City. If the clip were somehow inserted into a real news broadcast it would create chaos. Thousands or millions of people might flee in panic jamming freeways, train stations, and airports.
A nationwide panic might ensue if the fake news anchor claimed that there was a shortage of food or gasoline or that the credit-card system would shut down at midnight. A result of such frauds might be riots at supermarkets, filling stations, banks, or ATMs, as panicked mobs rushed to stock up on food, cash, or fuel.
An even greater catastrophe would be a fake address by a phony President Trump suddenly interrupting prime time TV and announcing martial law or a new war. A fake “message from the President” could quickly create nationwide or even worldwide panic with a phony warning about a terrorist attack, a shortage, or even war.
The technology to create fake videos has been around for some time. A YouTube video from 2016 shows how AI puts the expressions from an actor’s face on video of politicians like Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush. It is only a matter of time before terrorists and hostile governments like that in North Korea utilize such AI and fake news to spread terror.
Any Audio Can be Fake Too
Nor is it just television news that can be faked. The technology to create realistic phony radio announcements also exists.
A company called Lyrebird is already marketing algorithms it claims will let anybody mimic anybody else’s voice, The Verge reported. Adobe has created ProjectVoCo, a “Photoshop for voice” that lets anybody create their own fake audio just like Photoshop lets you manipulate pictures, The BBC reported.
Lyrebird even released a demonstration clip of fake audio of politicians such as President Trump to demonstrate its capabilities. Disturbingly, Lyberbird claims its algorithm can generate up to one thousand fake sentences in one second.
Any News can be Fake
The danger is that any news can now be faked with today’s technology. Thinking Americans need to be prepared for phony news or announcements coming out of the mouths of what look like real people.
Be skeptical of all video clips that you see and any audio that you hear. If you see a video or hear audio that seems sensational or weird get suspicious.
A great way to check out a news story is to simply Google it … if the news is on just one or two sites, there is a good chance it is fake. Another method to employ is to change the channel if you are watching TV, if news or an announcement is on just one station get suspicious.
Real news should be coming from several sources. News that is coming from just one source should be questioned.
Finally, be prepared to be patient and wait it out. If you have already done the basic preparations for disaster; such as stockpiling food, ammunition, cash, fuel, etc., you can simply sit back and wait out a fake news panic at home.
At the end of the day, it is always the unprepared that create panic and chaos. Fake news and the new AI fake videos are potentially dangerous threats. Just think…
What if the Nazi’s had this technology?
A viral video showing news anchors all over the nation reading the exact same words verbatim has people wondering, is this fake news?
The promotional content all comes from media giant Sinclair, who owns all of these local broadcast news stations. But is Sinclair the only broadcaster that controls what its anchors and reporters say?
This is a Reality Check you won’t get anywhere else.
It is the latest “outrage” over fake news, now a viral video of local TV anchors all reading the same copy.
Last week I explained in a Reality Check why this video isn’t about fake news. It’s a promo video.
The uproar over this video though is a little disingenuous because it is pointed solely at Sinclair, which is being painted as “pushing the Trump agenda.
News networks across the U.S., owned by various corporations, have been doing this for years. And it’s not just Sinclair that controls messaging.
Truth In Media Editor-in-Chief Annabelle Bamforth explained in an op/ed for our site that local news stations have been parroting familiar stories across the U.S.
“Among the most popular illustrations of this practice is a segment called “Media Reacts” from Late Night With Conan O’Brien, in which O’Brien pokes fun at the identical media messaging from local news stations. Note that a handful of stations in this clip ARE owned by Sinclair, but there are plenty of stations in these clips that are not; some are owned by Nexstar Media Group, Tegna, Heartland Media, Tribune and Raycom Media.”
“In most of these cases where O’Brien uses anchors from different TV stations all over the country reading the exact same script word for word, the source of that script is some kind of wire service. This means those stations have subscribed to AP, Reuters, CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, etc wire services. In those cases, the wire story will come down and a station reporter or producer will copy and paste it word for word into a newscast.
“The problem with this policy is that reporters and producers simply take that content as gospel and no one in any newsroom ever bothers to fact check or verify if the wire story is correct. Simply put, in a newsroom, if it is on the wire it has to be true.”
The problem with newscasters using their news block to reading station promos or wire stories verbatim is that they are participating in a propagandizing of the population.
This demonstrates the danger of when one company—whether it’s Sinclair, Tribune, Cox, Meredith, or another—owns and controls so many stations around the country. If the corporate leaders decide to require stations to read news stories, without allowing anchors or reporters to fact check or edit their scripts, that’s a problem.
Now consider this: with media consolidation, more and more stations in America are owned by fewer corporations. Each corporation can control the station’s messaging. And here’s the kicker: most American’s don’t even know who owns their local news station.
No matter what they say, all corporations that own news media, whether TV, radio or internet are controlling what content you see. Period.
But under a decentralized funding model, news can be created that is accountable, not to some corporate suit that wants to impress his or friends, not to politicians, not to advertisers like Big Pharma, but accountable to the truth.
That’s Reality Check. Let’s talk about that on social media.
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A bill has been proposed in California that would effectively kill free speech by allowing internet censorship that targets everything the state deems as "fake news."
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Not only are self-defense rights, free speech, and freedom of religion are under attack in the United States. The government has now decided to also battle the freedom of the press and has enlisted the Department of Homeland Security to help them in their quest to squash liberty.
It could be because not all media outlets tow the line and promote the government as their religious supreme deity. Or it could just be that there will be an attempt to hush those who speak out against the government. Or the new database could just list those involved in media and journalism and mean nothing. And if you believe that last one, we’ve got some beach front property in Wyoming to sell you.
Every day, journalists face serious consequences including physical violence, imprisonment and death. A few days ago, the Committee to Protect Journalists launched its annual Free The Press campaign to raise awareness about imprisoned journalists throughout the world. On May 3, UNESCO will once again mark “World Press Freedom Day“to inform citizens of violations of press freedom — a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained and even murdered.” –Forbes
But that’s all beginning now, here, in the “land of the free.” Last week, SHTFPlan interviewed Sarah Leach who was detained without charges for survivalist posts on her own Facebook page. But we are expected to believe that DHS has no nefarious reasoning for compiling a list of all journalists, bloggers, podcasters, or as they like to call them: “media influencers”?
FedBizOpps.gov posted a relatively benign-sounding subject: “Media Monitoring Services” by DHS. Of course, the government always makes basic human rights violations sound benign when we all know they are anything but. The details of the attached Statement of Work outline a plan to gather and monitor the public activities of media professionals and influencers and are enough to cause nightmares of constitutional and basic fundamental human rights proportions, particularly as the freedom of the press is under attack worldwide. Yes, that includes in the United States.
And “attack” is not hyperbolic.
Just take one look at the “fake news” epidemic. While outlets like CNN get away with bold-faced lies, others who tell the truth are labeled “conspiracy theorists,” and that’s all by design.
Any time a credible but politically unpalatable explanation for real-world events is expressed in the American public sphere, it is often denounced as “conspiracy theory”, then dismissed and studiously ignored by the mass media. Public opinion, the public herd mind, obediently follows suit and closes itself to any such crazy conspiracy talk. –Econintersect
It’s already been discovered that the fake news “public relations” (which is what the father of propaganda, Edward Bernays, renamed propaganda so it would be more easily digested by the masses) attempt was an attack by Democrats in 2016 and meant to discredit anyone who didn’t support their leftist agenda.
Without propaganda and brainwashing, leftist policies would have died decades ago. People are born wanting freedom from tyranny. It takes an effective campaign starting in childhood to change their minds and support their masters willingly while decrying those who seek actual freedom from oppression. –The Daily Sheeple
So can we take a guess as to who will at the most risk of the government-compiled list of “media influencers?” If you’ve guessed those critical of the government, you’d be correct. It certainly seems like the government is losing control over the minds of too many as critical thought makes a comeback and pushes back on the propaganda spoon-fed to the willing sheep.
Unfortunately, increasing government encroachment on the freedom of the press is the sinister backdrop to all of this. Freedom House, which has monitored the status of the press for nearly 40 years, recently concluded that global media freedom has reached its lowest level in the past 13 years. The independent watchdog organization blames “new threats to journalists and media outlets in major democracies” as well as “further crackdowns on independent media in authoritarian countries like Russia and China.” And then it goes one step further. –Forbes
Forbes then posed two questions that won’t readily be answered, and when they are, it will probably be too late for liberty. Could this DHS action be a way for the government to keep track of American and foreign journalists as well as “citizen journalists,” threatening not only the freedom of the press but also individual freedom of speech? And what, exactly, is the government planning to do with the information that it compiles?
If you think this is all just conspiracy theory and it could never happen to you, read Sarah Leach’s first-hand account of being harassed and detained and stolen from for the crime of being a survivalist and posting about it on Facebook:
Interview With Prepper: ‘We Were Held Without Charges’ For Survivalist Facebook Posts
Freedom is literally under attack by the United States government and there’s no longer any easy or consoling way to state it.
These governments say that they are protecting their citizens from misinformation, but what they are really doing is protecting themselves from competition.
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From Paul Joseph Watson
“You are fake news.”
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(INTELLIHUB) — The mainstream media monopoly has had quite the week when it comes to reporting any truth about the Russia investigations.
As Shane Savitsky pointed out in his Axios piece on Friday, “Three stories in the past seven days have crumbled under greater scrutiny.”
- Flynn’s testimony: Last Friday, ABC News reported that former national security advisor Michael Flynn was prepared to testify that President Trump, while still a candidate, directed him to contact Russian officials. But later in the day, the network issued a “clarification” that the direction came when Trump was president-elect. That changed the impact of the story entirely as it’s a common occurrence for presidential transition teams to reach out to foreign governments.
- Deutsche Bank subpoena: Reuters and Bloomberg both reported on Tuesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation had subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for information on accounts relating to President Trump and his family members — seemingly confirming that Mueller had expanded his probe to investigate the president’s financial dealings. The WSJ defused that bombshell in a follow-up report stating that the subpoenas actually dealt with “people or entities close to Mr. Trump.”
- WikiLeaks emails: CNN reported this morning that senior Trump campaign officials, including Trump himself, received an email from an unknown sender on September 4, 2016 that linked them to what could have been unreleased WikiLeaks documents. WaPo issued their own report later in the afternoon that the email was actually sent on September 14 — and linked to a trove of documents that WikiLeaks had publicly released a day earlier.
Trump tweeted back in November: “We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!”
We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2017
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(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — As non-Republicans continue their search for scapegoats to blame for Hillary Clinton’s presidential loss to Donald Trump, a major focus of Trump skepticism has been ‘fake news’ allegedly peddled by Russia to electioneer the 2016 vote. To their credit, 13 trolls thought to be working for the Russian government were recently uncovered in a […]
Fake news are not new and neither is its progenitor, Yellow Journalism.
Mainstream media have been, for a long time, the largest purveyors of fake news.
No one can debate such a reality.
Indeed, fake news go a longer way and spread faster than real news. It is just a matter of watching CNN for a few minutes to realize how easily fake news are put out and broadcast to thousands in 30 seconds.
In the last 30 years, wars have been promoted and advertised by the most recognised news outlets around the world. From the BBC to CNN, from FOX News to PBS, from MSNBC to ABC, from EL PAÍSto TVE, most mainstream megaphones have played a significant role in spreading “official” versions of reality, which in most cases were just fake news.
Somehow, however, fake news is now attached to alternative media, who are key in providing an alternative source of information to the corporate-controlled fake news.
Alternative media have given corporate media such a run for their money that corporate news sources are now openly attacking alternative media.
Censorship is the most common way of banning real news from being internationally discussed. All Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google impose bans on alternative media on a daily basis.
Video channels and accounts are blacked out without previous warnings or without showing valid reasons. Explanations for the attacks are as simple as “you have violated our publishing policies”, whatever that means.
Today, the mainstream media and governments who control them, label fake news anything that does not support the official story, no matter how extraordinarily fake that official story is. The latest example of fake news are so-called lone wolf mass shootings in the US.
Local and federal law enforcement, as well as mainstream media, push versions of reality that are difficult to believe. According to them, lone shooters are responsible for killing dozens of people in churches and schools, though witnesses always explain that several shooters were seen in military or police gear riddling unarmed children and parishioners.
While calling for more gun control, the mainstream media blame conservatives, gun owners and pro-gun organizations for the shootings, as they demand that the population be disarmed.
Coincidentally, all mass shootings take place in heavily disarmed areas and the cities with the strictest gun control policies are the hardest hit by mass shootings.
The media also refused to touch the mental health issue even though most shooters are mentally ill people under the effect of pharmaceuticals.
But it gets even worse. The media, in most cases, refuse to report that most mass shooters were already under surveillance by local and federal law enforcement agencies, but that somehow, they escaped police radars to carry out the shootings.
It has been only after the arrival of President Donald Trump to the White House that mainstream media have been exposed for what they are: an assembly line of fake news.
According to an article published in the journal Science, false information is disseminated “significantly farther, faster, deeper and more widely” than real news in all categories of information, and the effects are more pronounced when it comes to false political news more than in other areas that are also impressive or controversial, such as terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends or financial information.
Why is it that no one ever questioned fake news produced by mainstream media before? Because no one knew how fake their information was.
False information receives 70% more retweets than the truthful ones, that is to say, that the users share them much more among their followers, helping to multiply their diffusion.
From the detailed analysis of 126,000 affirmations spread on Twitter between 2006 and 2017, researchers have discovered that lies, moreover, succeed because they often provoke responses of fear, outrage and surprise.
The diffusion of falsehoods was favored by its virality, when infected with equals.
At the other extreme, truthful statements took six times longer to reach 1,500 people than to the hoaxes.
The political lies are not only shared more, they run like wildfire: they reach more than 20,000 people almost three times faster than it takes the rest of false news to reach 10,000 individuals, as calculated in this work.
“Falsehood spreads farther and faster than the truth despite these differences, not because of them,” the study says.
Just imagine. The mainstream media have been at the top of the pyramid for a hundred years, so they are deeply rooted in the core of a mindless society that used to believe everything they reported. But now, things are different.
Whereas it was thought that the media were responsible for keeping the government in check, now, alternative media keep both deceitful mainstream media and government in check.
The authors of the study come to a very striking conclusion about bots, those automated fraudulent accounts whose purpose is to deceive or generate confusion:
“Contrary to what is believed, robots accelerated the spread of true and fake news at the same rate, which implies that fake news is spread more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it.” Those humans include news presenters and their so-called panels of “experts”.
Unfortunately, the direct result of the discovery of fake news, most of which is created and distributed by mainstream media, has been a generalized call for censorship, instead of having a discussion about real issues.
Mainstream media, especially extreme Left outlets, attach themselves like leeches to real causes and problems that are of most people’s concern to exploit the public’s ignorance or thirst for attention.
Since most resistance to mainstream media fake news takes place on social media and the internet, they carry out daily campaigns to press social media platforms to censor users who dissent. That is why platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google constantly change their policies so that they accommodate official narratives and not dissenting explanations.
In a report published by Sputnik back in 2017, most people, independent of their political affiliation, now believe that mainstream media not only spread fake news, but that they actually manufacture them.
All Republicans, Democrats, and Independents are clear that mainstream media are filled with fake news.
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(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — As non-Republicans continue their search for scapegoats to blame for Hillary Clinton’s presidential loss to Donald Trump, a major focus of Trump skepticism has been ‘fake news’ allegedly peddled by Russia to electioneer the 2016 vote. To their credit, 13 trolls thought to be working for the Russian government were recently uncovered in a […]
A hero student from the shooting in Parkland, Florida has come forward explaining how CNN wouldn"t let him ask his own questions and, instead, handed him a script to read—he politely refused to participate in their propaganda.
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This is yet another propaganda alert coming straight from one of the survivors of the Florida school shooting. He says CNN gave him a scripted question after denying him the right to ask about armed guards.
According to Real Clear Politics, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Colton Haab said he was approached by CNN to ask a question at Wednesday night’s town hall but decided not to after the network gave him a “scripted question,” and quashing the one he wrote himself. Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC shielded students while the school was under attack from the shooter, said he was going to ask about using veterans as armed security guards.
That doesn’t fit CNN‘s narrative, however, so they disallowed Haab from simply asking his question. “CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted,” Haab told WPLG-TV. “I don’t think that it’s going get anything accomplished. It’s not gonna ask the true questions that all the parents and teachers and students have.”
“I expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinion on my questions,” Haab said.
“Colton Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC who shielded classmates in the midst of terror says he did not get to share his experience,” WPLG’s Janine Stanwood explained. “Colton wrote questions about school safety, suggested using veterans as armed school security guards but claims CNN wanted him to ask a scripted question instead so he decided not to go,” Stanwood reported.
So what was CNN‘s response? “CNN did not, and does not, script any questions for town hall meetings, ever.”
Anyone believing CNN has an agenda other than that of the anti-gun global elites is not paying attention. Guns are not going anywhere. We’ve been through this before. And we’ll keep going through it until good people aren’t disarmed and made sitting ducks, or the highly offended left finally decides it’s important to protect our children with the same methods we protect our money.
It’s becoming clear that most mainstream media news is nothing more than globalist propaganda. CNN’s Chris Cuomo proved that when he pushed a story about a lying kid who said he purchased an AR-15 without an ID. But Cuomo was busted, then continued to deflect from the fact that he pushed a fake story.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo retweeted the account of one @usaphotodude quoting a reporter named Cody Davis on Tuesday. The tweet read, “I was able to buy an AR-15 in five minutes. I’m 20 and my ID is expired.” There’s only one problem: that never happened. The article itself states, “After [the sales representative] walked me through the paperwork, all five pages of it, I told him I changed my mind and wanted to think more before I bought an AR-15. He told me it wasn’t a problem and listed the store hours if I wanted to come back. I then said thank you and walked back to my car.”
The tweet actually says that the gut never filled out paperwork, a necessary step to purchasing a gun, which would then be run through the background check system. But Cuomo obviously didn’t read that part or didn’t care. And then deflected the conversation and lied further.
Hey, @ChrisCuomo from CNN. Saw the article you retweeted: “I WAS ABLE TO BUY AN AR-15 IN 5 MINUTES”
Did you see the part where he admits to neither filling out the necessary paperwork (which would initiate the background check) NOR purchasing the AR-15? Weird. pic.twitter.com/wLfaiKCqaM
— Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) February 21, 2018
According to the Daily Wire, when called on it, Cuomo tweeted, “Isn’t the point that the kid’s age and lack of ID wasn’t a deterrent? and this isn’t all gun shops. Place I bought my shotgun basically goes farther than the law requires and makes judgments about whom to sell to. Point is the system should be better.”
Which, of course, is not the point. The point is that Cuomo tweeted out false information. National Review’s Charles Cooke pointed that out:
This isn’t a response. This is a straw man that has nothing to do with what I said to you, and nothing to do with the topic at hand. You promoted somebody who lied, and then you lied about why you did it. https://t.co/ofsxeo9iRf
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 21, 2018
The point is, CNN is full of antigun wackos who don’t care about individual rights. As long as the government is all powerful and remains their savior, they will push propaganda and even bold-faced lies as a means of manipulating public opinion regardless of facts.
In what has been described as one of the most vile, misleading headlines of all time, the left leaning New York Daily News published their Saturday edition with a cover that includes the ridiculous fake news claim that alleged Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was actually “trained” by the NRA themselves.
Apparently aiming to give Democrats an assist with their renewed push to disarm the American people, The NY Daily News latched onto the fact that the JROTC program at the school received funding from the NRA as evidence that the shooter himself received training from them.
The problem? The claim is about as misleading as they come, especially when you consider that while it is true that Cruz was at one time a member of the JROTC, so where dozens of other students, some who even HELPED others get out of the school during the shooting itself!
All the NRA did was give a grant to the JROTC program. They did not “train” Cruz and, sadly, the leftist propagandists at the NY Daily News are well aware of this fact but are hoping their readers are so uninformed that they believe this actual fake news.
The story itself was specifically designed as a hit piece against an organization that liberals throughout the country have painted as an all powerful, well-funded group when, in reality, anti-gun groups have spent literally hundreds of millions of more dollars than ANY pro-gun group ever has.
Users on Twitter were quick to destroy the fake news cover, making it clear that at least some Americans are able to see through this transparent leftist propaganda.
One of the most vile, misleading headlines of our time. The term “Hack” is way too good for you
— Chris B (@chrisbrown111__) February 17, 2018
Rare is the week that journalism does a good job to bolster its credibility, but goddamn this week has been such an abysmal display of dishonesty and incompetence. https://t.co/7COMSFCmHp
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) February 17, 2018
It’s the NRA’s fault he joined the ROTC.
— Jim Treacher is a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) February 17, 2018
So was one of the children who died defending his classmates, you scum sucking smear merchants. https://t.co/D8neIquGBL
— Dead Agent (@Recursion_Agent) February 17, 2018
You CAN write headlines like this that mislead your readers, but HOW do you live with yourselves?
— Hugh Shytle (@shytleh) February 17, 2018
You are not news, you are propaganda.
He was in JROTC before his expulsion, the funds were for JROTC.
— Fire and Furry (@KesaraRiku) February 17, 2018
He joined a JROTC program in school which is for kids who want to join the military later on in life. You didn’t mention that other kids in this program helped protect some of their classmates. By this logic US taxpayers also trained him cause this is a public school program
— Sam’s Dad (@zesty_tacos) February 17, 2018
The air rifle team was part of the school’s Junior ROTC program but I suppose click bait is what it’s all about. I guess “trained by Junior ROTC” doesn’t have that certain frisson. (And not to put too fine a point on it, Junior ROTC kids at that school protected fellow students.) https://t.co/MU3BspbLO8
— Mike Glenn (@mrglenn) February 17, 2018
So was one of the children who died defending his classmates, you scum sucking smear merchants. https://t.co/D8neIquGBL
— Dead Agent (@Recursion_Agent) February 17, 2018
The club was an air rifle team and was hosted by the ROTC. Amazing smear here considering JROTC students helped other students out of the school. This is really amazing. https://t.co/9XesQ7izWy
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 17, 2018
The NRA gave a grant for the JROTC program. This isn’t even reporting. It’s clickbait garbage. This isn’t journalism. It’s why no one trusts the media. @C_Sommerfeldt @Janon_Fisher
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) February 17, 2018
Good God, I didn’t even realize this was the Daily New’s front page today. Sometimes media cynicism can be so breathtaking that it becomes affirmative malice. pic.twitter.com/GECBwW7eXX
— Jeff B. (@EsotericCD) February 17, 2018
On par w/ CNN’s celebration of Kim Jung Un’s sis as the lowest media moment of 2018 … if not ever https://t.co/EH44Xq3pWd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 17, 2018
Can the media sink any lower? https://t.co/beTyBB3nt2
— Botty McBotface (@JammieWF) February 17, 2018
Make no mistake. ALL those involved with this disgusting hit piece, including the reporters who wrote it, the editors who allowed it, and the punk who wrote the fake news headline are nothing more than leftist propagandists masquerading as journalists.
Was the effort to focus America’s attention on the idea of “fake news”—itself a propaganda effort? Connect the dots and learn who’s behind it and why. It’s not what you think.
Sharyl Attkisson is a five-time Emmy Award winner and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting and author of two New York Times bestsellers: “The Smear” and “Stonewalled.” Attkisson hosts the Sunday national TV news program “Full Measure,” which focuses on investigative and accountability reporting. For thirty years, Attkisson was a correspondent and anchor at PBS, CNN and CBS News, where the Washington Post described her as “a persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story.” She’s a fourth degree blackbelt in TaeKwonDo.
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The true history of the fluoridation of water in the name of tooth decay prevention is coming out. As the mainstream media continues to lose its grip on the public’s throat with blatant and intentional fake news, the truth behind all of the lies touted are rising to the surface.
You’ve likely heard it before: “Just get the shot. Just take the medicine. It’s all in your best interest.” But some journalists are finally blowing holes in the government’s propaganda campaign and the media’s history of lying to us for profit. It isn’t just Mike Adams, the Health Ranger who has come out declaring the mainstream media nothing more than the propaganda arm of the deep state, but now John Rappaport is delivering evidence of the dishonesty behind the fluoridation campaign.
Joe Joseph, with The Daily Sheeple walks us through what Rappaport has repeatedly written about: the truth behind the fluoridation of our water.
In 1997, Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson, two respected mainstream journalists, peered into an abyss. They found a story about fluorides that was so chilling it had to be told.
The Christian Science Monitor, who had assigned the story, never published it.
Their ensuing article, “Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb,” has been posted on a number of websites.
Author Griffiths told me that researchers who study the effects of fluorides by homing in on communities with fluoridated drinking water, versus communities with unfluoridated water, miss a major point: studying the water is not enough; toxic fluorides are everywhere—they are used throughout the pharmaceutical industry in the manufacture of drugs, and also in many other industries (e.g., aluminum, pesticide). –John Rappaprot’s Blog
“Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated by A-bomb program scientists, who had been secretly ordered to provide ‘evidence useful in litigation’ [against persons who had been poisoned by fluoride and would sue for damages]… The first lawsuits against the US A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage, the [government] documents show,” said the Griffiths/Bryson report.
In order to stop lawsuits against damages done by the government with fluoride on unsuspecting Americans, a dishonesty campaign was set in full force. The government began lying to promote fluoride as a useful agent against tooth decay, even though it’s a powerful central nervous system damaging chemical.
This is something everyone should know. “Now you know why promoting toxic fluoride as a dental treatment was so important to government officials,” Joseph says. “A very interesting part of history that a lot of people don’t know. And, a lot of sound science to back up just how toxic fluoride can be. And here we have it, pervasive in our society, not just in the water that we drink, and the toothpaste that we use, but also, interestingly enough, the major ingredient in a lot of the serotonin reuptake inhibitors and the antidepressants that we see coming out of big pharma; fluoride is a major component of that. If you don’t believe me, check this study out,” Joseph says.
*Both reports are linked below*
Fluorides, the atomic bomb, and fake news
(COMMONDREAMS) Viewers of the Sean Hannity Show watched in real-time Thursday night as their host was forced to admit that reports of President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller were true, after he’d spent part of the broadcast attacking the New York Times’ story.
Later, countless people online witnessed Hannity’s coverage as the clip went viral.
Early in the show, Sean Hannity dismissed the Times’ report that Trump had ordered the dismissal of Mueller, who stepped in to run the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia after the president fired former FBI director James Comey last spring.
“The New York Times is trying to distract you,” Hannity told his audience. “They have a story that Trump wanted Mueller fired sometime last June, and our sources, and I’ve checked in with many of them, they’re not confirming that tonight…And how many times has the New York Times and others gotten it wrong?”
He later said that his sources could indeed confirm that the story was true.
Watch:
Sean Hannity: The New York Times is trying to distract you. They say Trump tried to fire Mueller, but our sources aren’t confirming that!
Sean Hannity, minutes later: Alright, yeah, maybe our sources confirm Trump wanted to fire Mueller. But so what? That’s his right. Anywho… pic.twitter.com/yUIt7Un56d
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 26, 2018
Although Hannity’s tone in his first mention of the story suggested that the Times’report, if true, would be a significant development, he took on a dismissive attitude when acknowledging that the president wanted to fire the official in charge of investigating him.
“Yeah, maybe Donald Trump wanted to fire the special counsel for conflict. Does he not have the right to raise those questions?” he said, shrugging, before quickly changing the subject to a high-speed car chase in Arizona.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have said that attempting to fire Mueller is a red line that the president must not cross.
On social media, Hannity’s backtracking garnered attention from journalists and critics.
By Julia Conley / Creative Commons / Common Dreams / Report a typo
This article was chosen for republication based on the interest of our readers. Anti-Media republishes stories from a number of other independent news sources. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect Anti-Media editorial policy.
Don’t be fooled by all the talk of fighting fake news. Do you know what it’s really all about? Censorship.
Fighting fake news is the new pretext given by the ruling cabal in many nations to enact censorship via the back door. Amid the rallying cries of “We must fight fake news!” both France (under would-be dictator Macron) and now Brazil are attempting to pass legislation to ban political content on the web that the government deems to be fake news. There is a theme to this, as it follows on from many acts of censorship in 2016 and 2017. Whether it’s Twitter shadowbanning, Facebook rolling our fake news checkers or deleting entire accounts, YouTube embarking upon soft censorship through forced sign-ins or hard censorship by deleting entire channels, Google’s search engine hiding websites (by de-ranking them) or – worst of all – Google demonetizing content and sites not to its liking, censorship is clearly getting worse and threatening to overtake a free and open internet.
The big corporations of the internet have shown their true colors on the issue of censorship vs. free speech. Amazon has been caught banning certain books from being sold on its platform, e.g. in 2015 it decided to ban Jim Fetzer’s book No One Died at Sandy Hook, which exposed the false flag mass shooting at Sandy Hook. In reaction to the whole “Russian meddling in the US electionsaga”, which is itself fake news and a tempest in a teapot, Facebook decided to get tough and enlist the help of international fact checkers to do your thinking for you and decide for you what is real news and what is fake news. Funnily enough, it was recently reported that the rollout didn’t go so well, so for the time being Facebook has canned the idea because it was making things worse! Facebook has also been caught banning posts on certain topics (e.g. with NaturalNews.com and their posts on gun control) or even deleting entire accounts of users it didn’t like (as recently happened with David Icke, whose 700,000+ follower account just got reinstated after being down for 6 days due to an “error” – yeah right).
If fighting fake news is so important, why not ban the MSM? That should take care of most of it …
Twitter is no stranger to censorship either, with its employees boasting of shadow banning (aka stealth banning, ghost banning or comment ghosting), meaning blocking a user or their content from an online community without the user realizing they have been banned. At one point Google publicly floated the idea of deranking and delisting certain sites (they mentioned Russian sites RT and Sputnik), but they later did a U-Turn and claimed they would not be doing that. Obviously, it is easily within their power to tamper with algorithms to include or exclude anything they want, and virtually no one would ever know the search results were being skewed due to Google’s own ideological bias. Google was caught doing this in favor of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US presidential elections. Indeed, after the firing of ex-Google employee James Damore (who has now initiated a class action lawsuit due to his dismissal), we have to wonder whether bias isn’t already coded into Google’s algorithms just as a result of their orthodoxy and culture (left-wing and promoting diversity at all costs). Recently, Breitbart reported that Google’s fact-checking almost exclusively targets conservative or right wing media.
It’s not just Google itself. Google-owned YouTube has been embarking on campaigns of both soft censorship and hard censorship. In many ways, soft censorship is more insidious, because then the company can claim plausible deniability and refuse to admit they are even engaged in censorship. In this case, soft censorship refers to when YouTube technically allows people to watch a video, but makes it difficult by putting barriers in the way, e.g. by claiming the content is “age-restricted” (forcing you to open an account, give your details to YouTube and prove that you are of mature age) or using other ways to force you to sign in before being allowed to watch the video. The adpocalypse of 2017 as it was called was perhaps closer to hard censorship, and involved a sweeping demonetization of videos due to “inappropriate content” for advertisers. Finally, YT has actually deleted entire channels on occasion, such as the deletion of ActivistPost’s account last year in 2017.
Fighting fake news is really about the end goal of narrowing the “allowable”, “permissable” or even “legal” range of thought … censorship and perception management.
Fighting fake news gives would-be tyrants a great excuse to censor, however free speech is also being eroded by the equally vague and nebulous concepts of terrorism and hate speech. The term fake news rose to prominence right around the time that Donal Trump was elected in November 2016, yet there is hardly a clear and widely-agreed upon definition for the phrase. It often gets used by people who seek to criticize information they don’t like, dismiss allegations against them, or even to defend themselves when faced with an unflattering report about themselves. As Glenn Greenwald writes:
Yet, as many have long been warning, few people, if any, ever bothered to define what the term [fake news] actually means. As a result, it’s incredibly vague, shifting, and devoid of consistent meaning. Do any news articles that contain false, significant assertions qualify? Is there some intent requirement, and if so, what is it and how is determined (does recklessness qualify)? Can large mainstream outlets such as the Washington Post, Le Monde, and Globo be guilty of publishing “fake news” and thus subject to this censorship, or is it — as one expects — reserved only for small, independent blogs and outlets that lack a powerful corporate presence?
Ill-defined terms that become popularized in political discourse are, by definition, terms of propaganda rather than reliable, meaningful indicators of problems. And invariably, they wreak all kinds of predictable havoc and inevitably give rise to abuses of power. More than anything else, such terms — which, by design, mean whatever the powerful groups wielding them want them to mean — so often produce arbitrary censorship in the name of combatting them. Just consider two similarly ill-defined but popular propagandistic terms — “terrorism” and “hate speech” — which have been appropriated by governments all over the world to justify the most extreme, repressive powers.
The fake war on terror has given the West – especially the US and UK – lots of mileage to suppress its own citizens. Egypt and Saudi Arabia also jumped in on the act with censorship laws based on terrorism. As for hate speech, it has been used to silence all sorts of opinions including those opposing Zionism and Israel’s continuous theft and murder against the Palestinians – because if you criticize Israel then you must be anti-semitic, right (even though true Judaism and Zionism are mutually exclusive)?
Political correctness is nothing but censorship at the end of the day. It is intolerance disguised as tolerance. As George Carlin said, it is fascism pretending to be manners. There is no right “not to be offended.” It is becoming more and more ludicrous as each year passes, with groups making lists of approved and non-approved terms and insisting that people using the non-approved, “politically incorrect” terms are therefore committing microaggressions against the people who hear them. How much more are we going to take before our range of “permissible” thoughts has been utterly diminished?
When you put all these nebulous but lethal terms together – national security, war on terror, terrorism, hate speech and fake news – it pretty much allows the government to do anything it wants to you, anytime, anywhere, including searching you, robbing you, jailing you and killing you!
Watch out anytime politicians invent a new talking point term which is vague and indefinable. That vagueness can be used against you. Fighting fake news is a joke. People are people. As long as humans have had free will and the ability to speak or write, there has always been the possibility of people lying, omitting, distorting or making false claims. It’s part of being alive to develop your discernment and work out what is true or false. Never allow government to pretend it can do this, for the result will always be that the ruling class filters out what its doesn’t want you to know out of self-interest and a desire for more power and control.
*http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/sandy-hook-3rd-anniversary-hoodwinked/
*http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/fake-news-russian-propaganda-censorship/
*http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/icfn-international-fact-checking-network/
*http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/11/twitter-employees-brag-about-shadow-banning-users-video/
*http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/political-correctness-language-thought-control/
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French President Emmanuel Macron says he will push a new law aimed at cracking down on alternative media and news that isn’t liberal. He invoked the term “fake news” saying he hopes to have the law in place by the end of the year.
Oh, the irony of guys like Macron thinking censorship is “freedom.” Speaking at a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday, Macron said such a law was essential, especially during elections. Sure. We can’t be having people pointing out that Macron is communist. That’s not good for reelection chances. He even says it’s to protect “liberal democracies” as if this is some sort of page out of a novel about a dystopian society.
“The freedom of the press is not a special freedom, it is the highest expression of freedom,” Macron said. “If we want to protect liberal democracies, we have to be strong and have clear rules.” He added that “A law will follow in due course.” No law has ever given anyone freedom, rather by their very nature, take it away and list a punishment, so the illogical rant flowing from his mouth is more than enough for most rational humans to roll their eyes at.
The idea of an individual freedom is incompatible with a communist ideology. The only reason to hold individual speech and information rights would be to better the society, a condition which would likely be met only in certain instances rather than across time, making the default a lack of freedom. –Stanford.edu
Macron said the law should require websites to disclose their source of funding and have a cap on the amount of money they receive from sponsored content. During an election, the government would be authorized to block a website, he said. He insisted that “press freedom” could be preserved under such a law. Of course! Suppressing free speech is always a good start to press freedom.
The Washington Post notes that “On the eve of the vote, Macron’s campaign suffered a massive cyber attack that it compared to the hacking of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign last year. U.S. intelligence agencies have blamed that operation on the Russian government.” But magically, Macron was still elected. Meaning those who voted for him didn’t care about the information released or didn’t read it anyway.
If you’re looking for logical consistency from a socialist or communist though, it’s going to take some mental gymnastics. But is anyone really surprised that a communist wants to limit free speech and press freedom? They can’t have people running around saying bad things about the government, now can they? How dare people want to free!
