The National Low Income Housing Coalition is out with their annual fake report
Reporters are idiots. They fall for this story every year, year after year. And not one bothers to question the advocacy group’s press release. Not one.
“Norway passes law requiring influencers to label retouched photos on social media”
Interesting – retouched photos, posted by advertisers and social media influencers must disclose the retouching. The law, though, does not define re-touching and it is unclear if it applies to exposure, contrast, saturation, sharpness adjustment.
Should a “Confederate flag” be banned as part of a historical parade float?
Should groups portraying U.S. history be prohibited from displaying the “Confederate flag”?
Cherry Picking: “How Not to Diet” by Dr. Michael Greger: A Critical Review
The book “How Not to Diet” uses an appeal to authority and extensive cherry picking to formulate the author’s argument that we should all eat a plant-based diet.
Old social media posts cost another job
Google’s head of diversity has been re-assigned after old blog posts showed him denigrating Jews and possibly making inappropriate comments about the LGBTQ+ community. Old blog posts and tweets have resulted in many losing their jobs.
Facebook arbitrarily censors MD, PhD, calling her factual post “spam”
An MD, PhD (epidemiology) finds her factual Facebook post mis-classified by Facebook’s auto-filters/auto-censors and thereby censored from view. She had linked to the original source of the information. Therefore, the message from FB is – do not cite your sources!
Old tweets kill off another career
Another career is ended due to people learning about a reporter’s actual beliefs via the reporter’s own past tweets and social media posts.
Hundreds of electric cars in the municipality of Paris rot and leak toxic products
A poster shared on social media falsely asserts that hundreds of electric vehicles are rotting away in Paris, leaking toxic materials into the ground. The story is provably false.
The role of media in establishing public consensus
Link to an essay on the role that “technical authority”, media propaganda, and how “consensus of experts” are used to influence the public and to exert control over us. This essay is an eye opener.
Changing the language definition in order to make a point
Another example of fiddling with language to make a weak conclusion with low certainty sound more impressive than it really is.