Journalism: “How to Infuse Subliminal Bias into Your Education Reporting, a Primer”
Executive director of Choice Media explains how to bias news stories in favor of traditional, unionized public educational programs.
Journalism: Forbes publishes and deletes a fake news item about “Walmart Insulin”
Forbes publishes a fake news column about “Walmart insulin”, deletes it later the same day. No editor’s note explains the deletion.
Climate communications: Media and some climate researchers misleading the public
Two climate scientists, in a comment in Nature, note the media (and many climate scientists too) have been incorrectly presenting the RCMP8.5 “worst case scenario” as the most likely case. Data show this worst case is extremely unlikely, but its use in climate communications propaganda messaging has led to a mental health crisis as up to half of various population groups believe humanity may be extinct in ten years, and many youth are now medicated for anxiety caused by exaggerated climate communications efforts.
Privacy: #Facebook and everyone else know everything about you
Facebook has the ability to track everything you do on line and off line, including links to store “loyalty card” purchases, online purchases from third part web sites, even when you look up information on medication conditions.
Privacy: AVAST Anti-virus program collects all your web site browsing history and sells it to retailers
Avast anti-virus software has been tracking your web site visits, every web site page and click you make, your Google searches and GPS location information – and selling that to corporate America for marketing purposes. I just deleted all free anti-malware programs on my computer.