Weird Twitter censorship
Facebook censors a Moderna Senior Scientist’s tweet which links to a pre-print of paper written a PhD virologist. What? Twitter simply censors at random now.
“Black box found”
The “boxes” are called Flight Data Recorders and they are bright orange, not black. But leave it to the media to create an imaginary term out of thin air to describe the data recorders: One of the two black boxes containing data from Monday’s plane crash has been found, Chinese state media said Wednesday. Source: China Eastern Airlines Boeing crash: Black box found Do you wonder how much other stuff the media just makes up on the spot?
Russian government demands that Youtube censor content
“Russia state regulator says YouTube activities are ‘terrorist in nature’ and threaten lives of Russian citizens.”
What happened to Doctor Science? He’s kind of disappeared
Dr. Fauci has barely appeared in the media for the past 4 weeks, and possibly not at all in the past 2-3 weeks. After 15 days to flatten the curve turned into 2+ years, he may have exceeded his “Best if used by” date as many politicians want to bury the pandemic fast as they can (it is a Congressional election year).
“Fact check” Telegram channel is itself fake, used to spread “misinformation”
A Russian Telegram channel purporting to “fact check” reports about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is itself a fake operation used to spread misleading propaganda messaging. Unfortunately, many “fact check” operations, including from professional Western media, are propaganda messaging in a new form. Read this for some background on that.
Stanford’s Professor Michael McFaul is a fool [has since apologized and backpedaled on his original comment]
Stanford’s Professor Michael McFaul is a fool. He said on MSNBC that Hitler never targeted ethnic Germans. McFaul is a fool, an idiot, and makes us wonder if his biography is a fraud. He is a professor of International Studies at Stanford, Director of their International Studies Institute, and was a White House policy advisor for five years on Eurasian affairs. He also is why “expert” has become synonymous with idiot.
Russian TikTok Influencers Paid to Spread Kremlin Propaganda
VICE News confirmed that someone unknown (possibly Russia’s government?) has been paying TikTok social media influencers to spread untrue lies as propaganda messaging on TikTok.
No it didn’t: Story of cute missing white woman “became a national obsession”
In missing person case after case, the media provides saturation coverage – but only if the victim is an attractive, young, blue-eyed blonde woman. The inherent racism and sexism of media news directors is astounding.
The scary ways the “metaverse” will control your views and your identity
How the “metaverse” may cause us to become even more uniform in our views to conform to group identiies.
The Unexpected Return of ‘Duck and Cover’
In the 1950s and 1960s, government technocrats held propaganda campaigns to convince us that to be safe in a nuclear attack, we just needed to “duck and cover” under our desks. Every elementary school student practiced this in monthly drills. But it was utterly useless. Its purpose was to pretend that we had control over something for which we actually had no control. It is similar to what just transpired during the pandemic – we were mandated to engage in actions that were utterly useless.