Category: disinformation

UK Disinformation Unit Monitored Headmaster Who Questioned COVID-19 Vaccines For Children

A headmaster who questioned the effects of lockdown and masking on children, as well as the mRNA vaccine rollout, was reported to the UK’s terror watchdog and had his social media posts monitored by government disinformation units. In January, Westminster confirmed that it had monitored lockdown critics including Conservative MPs and journalists on social media…


America Has Adopted a System of ‘Mass Domestic Censorship’

“The foreign policy establishment has seized jurisdiction over all things domestic,” Mike Benz says. “Whoever controls the Department of Dirty Tricks can remove all opposition on the political, social, and cultural side.” In a recent comprehensive interview on “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek spoke with Mike Benz about today’s censorship regime and how tactics…


State-Funded ‘Anti-Disinformation’ Campaign Flagged Americans as Foreign Shills: Twitter File

A state-funded group got thousands of ordinary American users of Twitter flagged and banned as spreaders of “foreign” disinformation, according to the latest installment of “Twitter Files” released on Thursday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi. The flawed “anti-disinformation” blacklist campaign was led by the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a lesser-known unit within the State Department. Established…


State-Funded ‘Anti-Disinformation’ Campaign Flagged Americans as Foreign Shills: Twitter Files

A state-funded group got thousands of ordinary American users of Twitter flagged and banned as spreaders of “foreign” disinformation, according to the latest installment of “Twitter Files” released on Thursday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi. The flawed “anti-disinformation” blacklist campaign was led by the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a lesser-known unit within the State Department. Established…


James Clapper Can’t Stop Lying

Commentary In an interview with The Washington Post’s “fact-checker,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper contends that Politico misled the public about a letter he and 50 other former intel officials signed during the 2020 presidential campaign warning that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story could be Russian deception. “There was message…


Tory MP Requested Feds Identify All ‘Misinformation’ Released Since 2016

A Conservative MP has requested from the government a detailed rundown of instances where its departments and agencies provided “misinformation” since 2016. “With regard to misinformation or wrong information released by the government, since 2016, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation or other government entity, and by year: (a) how many times did the…


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Lawsuit Takes Aim at Our (Dis)Information Overlords

Commentary At this point, references to George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece “1984” are cliché. The prevalence of authoritarian government control over what we see and hear is so unanimous that the analogy is hardly insightful. But still—what else better encapsulates the perfect inversion of truth as our regime’s standard operating procedure? Robert F. Kennedy Jr., founder…


Group Targeting Musk’s Twitter for ‘Climate Misinformation’ Is Linked to Fusion GPS, Disinformation Campaign

A group behind a study finding an increase in “climate change misinformation” on Elon Musk’s Twitter also funded Fusion GPS, the private investigative firm behind the debunked Steele dossier, as well as another group reportedly connected to an election disinformation campaign. Advance Democracy, a non-profit helmed by ex-Democratic staffer Daniel Jones, shared a study exclusively with USA Today Tuesday…


How Can We Trust Institutions That Lied?

Commentary Trust the Authorities, trust the Experts, and trust the Science, we were told. Public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic was only credible if it originated from government health authorities, the World Health Organization, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as scientists who parroted their lines with little critical thinking. In the name of ‘protecting’…


‘Mind Dominance’: The CCP’s Disinformation War on US Social Media

News Analysis Clusters of new social media profiles emerge and interact with long-dormant accounts, seemingly exchanging viewpoints from across the American political spectrum. Some sport American flags for profile pictures; others have images of beautiful women. Almost all are anonymous, though some impersonate real people. In tweets and posts and messages they spread their views….