Democrat ‘Ministry of Truth’

[MaryL]

Once upon a time, journalists were expected to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In recent years, however, journalists are comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, all while serving the interests of society’s most powerful figures.

In the years since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the academic complex studying and allegedly fighting “misinformation” has exploded. The Democracy Fund, a foundation run by billionaire eBay founder and liberal megadonor Pierre Omidyar, announced a new fund to “fight misinformation” in 2017. Following his example, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and George Soros launched a company that aimed to “tackle disinformation” by propping up partisan local news outlets.

The ascent of Trump set the well-heeled liberal philanthropist set adrift, baffled at the that notion such a toxic figure could have been elected. Rather than engaging with Trump’s political program, they fell instead down a conspiracist rabbit hole: Republican voters must have been fed bad information. With a likely Trump v Biden rematch on the cards in 2024, it’s little wonder that Democrats have once again began their “fake news” handwringing.

Joe Biden’s re-election campaign recently announced that Rob Flaherty, a little-known White House aide, will head up its efforts to combat online misinformation. Despite his recent government service, complete with extensive efforts to censor the internet, Flaherty’s resume reads as that of a hardcore partisan.

He worked at the Democratic National Committee during the party’s historic losses in 2014; he worked for Hillary Clinton during her embarrassing loss in 2016, and for Beto O’Rourke during his sweaty loss in 2020 before he jumped into Biden’s basement – where he began causing massive problems for anyone in search of news from outlets to the right of The Morning Star.

Rather than taking misinformation seriously, the Biden administration recently promoted several of the “spies who lied” to serve on an intelligence experts group in its Department of Homeland Security. These so-called experts include James Clapper and John Brennan, who signed the infamous letter alleging that Hunter Biden’s very real laptop was actually a Russian hoax.

A question we all must ask ourselves is whether or not we will allow the current trend to continue and whether we are doing what we must to secure freedom.

MSN

Comment:
Dangerous political cults such as the Democrat Party cannot survive the truth, therefore they must censor information.
Censorship is a huge flag for tyranny.
What the Democrats are calling 'misinformation' is any dissention from their hegemony.
No questions are doubting is allowed.
The Left is also using illegitimate 'fact checkers' which are in reality left wingers who fact check themselves/Democrats.
The Democrats used the FBI and the DOJ to pressure social media companies to censor information that they did not like.
The first amendment was designed to protect the citizens from a tyrannical rogue regime/party like Joe Biden's.

Good point. I remember when the democrats were just starting liars and junior league control freaks in the early 90's. NOW? Democrats have gone full blown FACIST. What boggles my mind, people actually believe DEMOCRATS represent "them". What a laugh. Democrats are Cthulhu. They care less about YOU.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

I am sure you needed a video to learn to be so distorted and wrong.

Yeah.

It was all those videos of people being beat up in the streets and having their shops burned down while the rest of us were told to stay inside to avoid a virus with a .01 percent mortality rate.

How you can see the same thing and still remain a brainwashed zombie is what will always separate us.

 

[scruffy]

There is no party in power named the Democrat Party. sorry.

You prefer commie assholes.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

I was just trying to be polite.
They really should be called the Totalitarian Asshole Party.

Wait, I thought that was magaturds.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Good point. I remember when the democrats were just starting liars and junior league control freaks in the early 90's. NOW? Democrats have gone full blown FACIST. What boggles my mind, people actually believe DEMOCRATS represent "them". What a laugh. Democrats are Cthulhu. They care less about YOU.

Shut up and do what you're told.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Once upon a time, journalists were expected to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In recent years, however, journalists are comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, all while serving the interests of society’s most powerful figures.

In the years since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the academic complex studying and allegedly fighting “misinformation” has exploded. The Democracy Fund, a foundation run by billionaire eBay founder and liberal megadonor Pierre Omidyar, announced a new fund to “fight misinformation” in 2017. Following his example, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and George Soros launched a company that aimed to “tackle disinformation” by propping up partisan local news outlets.

The ascent of Trump set the well-heeled liberal philanthropist set adrift, baffled at the that notion such a toxic figure could have been elected. Rather than engaging with Trump’s political program, they fell instead down a conspiracist rabbit hole: Republican voters must have been fed bad information. With a likely Trump v Biden rematch on the cards in 2024, it’s little wonder that Democrats have once again began their “fake news” handwringing.

Joe Biden’s re-election campaign recently announced that Rob Flaherty, a little-known White House aide, will head up its efforts to combat online misinformation. Despite his recent government service, complete with extensive efforts to censor the internet, Flaherty’s resume reads as that of a hardcore partisan.

He worked at the Democratic National Committee during the party’s historic losses in 2014; he worked for Hillary Clinton during her embarrassing loss in 2016, and for Beto O’Rourke during his sweaty loss in 2020 before he jumped into Biden’s basement – where he began causing massive problems for anyone in search of news from outlets to the right of The Morning Star.

Rather than taking misinformation seriously, the Biden administration recently promoted several of the “spies who lied” to serve on an intelligence experts group in its Department of Homeland Security. These so-called experts include James Clapper and John Brennan, who signed the infamous letter alleging that Hunter Biden’s very real laptop was actually a Russian hoax.

A question we all must ask ourselves is whether or not we will allow the current trend to continue and whether we are doing what we must to secure freedom.

MSN

Comment:
Dangerous political cults such as the Democrat Party cannot survive the truth, therefore they must censor information.
Censorship is a huge flag for tyranny.
What the Democrats are calling 'misinformation' is any dissention from their hegemony.
No questions are doubting is allowed.
The Left is also using illegitimate 'fact checkers' which are in reality left wingers who fact check themselves/Democrats.
The Democrats used the FBI and the DOJ to pressure social media companies to censor information that they did not like.
The first amendment was designed to protect the citizens from a tyrannical rogue regime/party like Joe Biden's.

The problem with "the truth" is that people don't want to hear "the truth".

You only need look on a forum like this to see the deluded (on both sides) attack each other with pointless crap without being able to see the real issues.

You say "the Democrat Party cannot survive the truth," and while I'd agree, I'm also going to say the Republicans are like this or probably even worse.

Boris Johnson, former PM of the UK, born in New York, was loved by a certain section of the right. Sort of like Trump supporters and maybe some a little more intelligent, essentially said something in one interview I saw, something like "people don't want to hear the truth, they don't want facts, they don't want information, they want to hear happy things"

And he's right.

People want to be told they're right. They want to be told they're geniuses for having not put any effort into understanding an issue but nonetheless having an opinion on that issue. They want to be entertained, they want to believe their leaders are like them, they want so much, but the thing they want most is to not have to use their brain.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

The problem with "the truth" is that people don't want to hear "the truth".

Not from some frigid weirdo we don't.

 

[Mac1958]

You say "the Democrat Party cannot survive the truth," and while I'd agree, I'm also going to say the Republicans are like this or probably even worse.

We get closer and closer to two literally separate realities every day. When someone uses the term "The Truth" as an attack mechanism, it's a pretty safe bet they're operating from one of the far ends of the spectrum.

To me, the worst thing that ideology does to a person is rob them of their fundamental human curiosity. The ideology (political, religious, cultural, whatever) provides all the answers, all the denials, all the completely one-sided talking points. And now, with the cafeteria "media" that we have, that person can hide in that ideology 24/7/365. So it all just feeds on itself.

 

[MinTrut]

Once upon a time, journalists were expected to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In recent years, however, journalists are comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, all while serving the interests of society’s most powerful figures.

In the years since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the academic complex studying and allegedly fighting “misinformation” has exploded. The Democracy Fund, a foundation run by billionaire eBay founder and liberal megadonor Pierre Omidyar, announced a new fund to “fight misinformation” in 2017. Following his example, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and George Soros launched a company that aimed to “tackle disinformation” by propping up partisan local news outlets.

The ascent of Trump set the well-heeled liberal philanthropist set adrift, baffled at the that notion such a toxic figure could have been elected. Rather than engaging with Trump’s political program, they fell instead down a conspiracist rabbit hole: Republican voters must have been fed bad information. With a likely Trump v Biden rematch on the cards in 2024, it’s little wonder that Democrats have once again began their “fake news” handwringing.

Joe Biden’s re-election campaign recently announced that Rob Flaherty, a little-known White House aide, will head up its efforts to combat online misinformation. Despite his recent government service, complete with extensive efforts to censor the internet, Flaherty’s resume reads as that of a hardcore partisan.

He worked at the Democratic National Committee during the party’s historic losses in 2014; he worked for Hillary Clinton during her embarrassing loss in 2016, and for Beto O’Rourke during his sweaty loss in 2020 before he jumped into Biden’s basement – where he began causing massive problems for anyone in search of news from outlets to the right of The Morning Star.

Rather than taking misinformation seriously, the Biden administration recently promoted several of the “spies who lied” to serve on an intelligence experts group in its Department of Homeland Security. These so-called experts include James Clapper and John Brennan, who signed the infamous letter alleging that Hunter Biden’s very real laptop was actually a Russian hoax.

A question we all must ask ourselves is whether or not we will allow the current trend to continue and whether we are doing what we must to secure freedom.

MSN

Comment:
Dangerous political cults such as the Democrat Party cannot survive the truth, therefore they must censor information.
Censorship is a huge flag for tyranny.
What the Democrats are calling 'misinformation' is any dissention from their hegemony.
No questions are doubting is allowed.
The Left is also using illegitimate 'fact checkers' which are in reality left wingers who fact check themselves/Democrats.
The Democrats used the FBI and the DOJ to pressure social media companies to censor information that they did not like.
The first amendment was designed to protect the citizens from a tyrannical rogue regime/party like Joe Biden's.

This has NOTHING to do with the left - it's liberals.

The left agrees with much of what you say.

 

[BluesLegend]

When was this?

When the media went after LBJ, Carter, Clinton?

You laugh at your own ignorance fool. The media didn't go after Clinton they covered for him and got him re-elected.

 

[GMCGeneral]

Dems used to control 100% of what the people heard with their Dem biased spin on it. Now the people have other sources of information, Dems hate that and are trying to shut that down.

Especially since the great Ronald Reagan rightly killed the "Fairness" Doctrine in 1987 which basically allowed unfettered monopoly by the Left on the media.

 

[GMCGeneral]

This has NOTHING to do with the left - it's liberals.

The left agrees with much of what you say.

Oh gee, distinction without a difference eh, "King" Tut again? Leftists and Liberals are birds of the same feather. Same old shit, different flies.

 

[MisterBeale]

Episode 450 - Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers? I Will!!!​

Corbett • 09/25/2023 • 24 Comments

Episode 450 - Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers? I Will!!! - The Corbett Report

So we all remember the rhetorical question I asked three years ago, right? Who will fact check the fact checkers? Well, guess what. It isn't a rhetorical question. It's a real question with a real answer: I will! That's right, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work dismantling the dissembling...

www.corbettreport.com

"So we all remember the rhetorical question I asked three years ago, right? Who will fact check the fact checkers? Well, guess what. It isn't a rhetorical question. It's a real question with a real answer: I will! That's right, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work dismantling the dissembling disinfo dissertations of the would-be fact checkers and make fun of the clowns on the front lines of the infowar."

(mirror)


See episode link for show notes and links to sources.

 

[MisterBeale]

Those Ian Davis articles he recommends in those videos? Highly recommended. You can find links to all of them in the show notes, here is the one to the first;

Deconstructing Marianna in Conspiracyland - Introduction

The BBC's "Marianna in Conspiracyland" podcast series is presented by Marianna Spring, the BBC's specialist disinformation and social media correspondent. Over the course of 10 podcast episodes, mixing fact with fiction and exploiting applied psychology, "Conspiracyland" is a disinformation and...

iaindavis.substack.com

". . . Marianna did not think it necessary to tell British children that she was compelled only to report government approved messaging. She told the children to trust information from the government and its pharmaceutical corporation “partners” and to reject all opinions expressed from any other source.

She deliberately conflated concerns about jab safety and efficacy with suspicions about a possible nefarious agenda, misleading children into thinking that the people she labelled anti-vaxxers, who had continually highlighted jab safety risks and dubious efficacy, were spreading "conspiracies" that were "lies." Marianna, like most of her BBC colleagues, was inducing children to take experimental jabs that they did not need.

Marianna Spring: peddling experimental drugs and advocating dictatorship to children

Perhaps most concerning was Marianna’s willingness to normalise state censorship for children. Contrary to every democratic principle known to their parents, she suggested to the youngest generation that the government should "remove" information it doesn’t “approve.” Thus, Marianna was advocating dictatorship, as a preferred model of government, to British children.

There is no doubt that the centralised control of information is favoured by autocracies and other types of dictatorships. It goes without saying that dictatorships are, by definition, anti-democratic. . . . "

 

[MisterBeale]

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