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    CNN’s Finger-pointing on ‘Misinformation’ Should Be Done in Mirror
    Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN’s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called misinformation. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, both California Democrats, asked, “What moral or ethical principles (including those…
    Tim Graham
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    3 Highlights From House Hearing on ‘Disinformation and Extremism’ in News Media
    A House subcommittee held a virtual hearing Wednesday on how to weed out what Democrats call “disinformation and extremism” in the media.  House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., and Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., chairman of the communications and technology subcommittee, organized the hearing.  “The prolonged severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and the…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Disinformationists
    A republic is not just a nation of laws. It also relies on its good-faith watchdogs, such as honest pollsters, the media, and bipartisan institutions. We still didn’t know the final result of Tuesday’s presidential election as of Wednesday night. But there are lots of reasons to worry that something in America has gone terribly…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Twitter Official Overseeing Misinformation Efforts Is Anti-Trump Partisan Who Donated to Planned Parenthood
    The Twitter official overseeing the tech company’s efforts to combat misinformation is a left-wing partisan who in the past has derided President Donald Trump as a “wretched orange man” and said he donated to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of site security, is the man in charge of the…
    Peter Hasson
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    Misinformation Isn’t the Only Danger
    Who gets to determine what’s “misinformation” and what’s not? As social media companies, under pressure, move in a direction of imposing stricter rules about permissible content on their platforms, this is the question users should be asking. Earlier this month, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said the video giant would be removing videos that go against…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Don’t Believe Russia’s Disinformation About Coronavirus
    For the past couple of weeks, Russia has been sowing disinformation about the coronavirus. Various Russian news sources have claimed that the U.S. started the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. deployed the virus as a “biological weapon,” or that the virus is a complete hoax created by the United States. These statements are false and clearly…
    Alexis Mrachek
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    Chinese Coronavirus Disinformation Campaign Targets United States
    China’s secrecy about the exploding coronavirus epidemic in Wuhan Province in December, typical of authoritarian regimes, caused a disastrous delay in international pathogen-fighting efforts. Now, the Chinese government, trying to deflect blame, has added insult to injury by falsely and absurdly accusing the United States of being the origin of the pandemic. It is straight…
    Helle Dale
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    How Russian Hybrid Warfare Has Weaponized Disinformation
    KYIV, Ukraine—As the Russian shells and rockets rained down on them in the frontline town of Debaltseve in February 2015, Ukrainian troops began to receive curious, anonymous text messages on their cellphones. “Your comrades nearby already left their positions, so you should leave yours as well,” one message read. The messages also claimed that Petro…
    Nolan Peterson
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    Russian Disinformation Is a Serious Threat to Europe. Here’s How to Counter It.
    The likelihood of an escalated conflict between the Ukraine and Russia has grown in recent years, and it reached a new level of intensity last November with Russia’s attack on Ukrainian naval vessels. But Russia’s meddling extends beyond the battlefield. Russia is also interested in impacting and corrupting foreign elections. Europe will host a slew…
    Will Thatcher | Alexis Mrachek
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    The Left Is Spreading Misinformation About Our Border Crisis. Here’s What’s Really Happening.
    This is a transcript of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s remarks Monday to reporters at the White House. Well, good afternoon. It is my pleasure to be here because I would love to see if I can help explain some of what’s going on and give you some of the facts. I know there have been a…
    Kirstjen Nielsen
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    Clinton Confidant Revealed as Source of Benghazi Misinformation
    One of the mysteries surrounding the Benghazi scandal appears to have been solved with the release of the private emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The question was who came up with the false narrative of the cause of the attack on the U.S. Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11, 2012. The answer, according…
    Helle Dale
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