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.
Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube have censored links to peer reviewed papers published in mainstream science journals; Youtube deleted a video of an official government public hearing featuring government officials and respected scientists. Because a handful of billionaires now control all online speech.
Facebook permits only pro-vaccine comments and photos on their platform. Anything not in support of vaccinations may be removed. (I am fully vaccinated, FYI).
White House asserts it has a veto privilege over quotes used by news reporters. Hmmmm.
Facebook’s primary business is creating a massive surveillance system to identify everything possible about everyone, and then to exploit that for advertising. Pharmaceutical companies have figured out how to discern potential illnesses among targets by looking at Facebook “interests”.
WhatsApp will gradually remove features from users who do not consent to give Facebook access to private data protected by Apple’s privacy features.
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.
Should billionaires control our public speech? Should billionaires be the ones to determine truth? Should billionaires have more power than elected government leaders?
“Could U.S. be next?” is a click-bait question in a headline. The answer is “no”.
The UK’s ITV used an alleged “before” and “after” photo to show that lock downs cleared the atmosphere and thus, proving that these actions were good for humanity. Or something. But its a really bad photo shop.