FAKE NEWS EXPOSED: A Service of PoliticalChat.com

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

OK.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/11447...eral-ban-looms

As the U.S. Senate considers banning TikTok on federal devices as a part of its end-of-year spending bill, at least 16 Republican governors have recently taken that step at the state level.

They include North Dakota, Idaho, Iowa, Texas, South Dakota, South Carolina, Maryland, Utah, Oklahoma, Alabama, New Hampshire, Georgia, Tennessee, Montana, Wyoming and Virginia.

Nebraska has had a ban in place since 2020, which covers all state devices. So has the Florida Department of Financial Services. Louisiana and West Virginia each announced partial bans.

In some of these cases, new restrictions go beyond TikTok and also forbid other Chinese- and Russian-owned platforms. But all of the governors give similar reasons for their actions: concerns about data privacy and surveillance.

These laws are pretty meaningless as they are largely redundant to laws in existence for decades (or that should have been). Installing outside software, regardless of its country of origin, was forbidden on all of my government-furnished digital devices (desktops, laptops, cell phones) starting 20-25 years ago. Any state not already doing so is far behind the times and just playing catch-up in the cybersecurity arena.

[finnbow]

In a study released on Thursday by the Brookings Institution, Mr. Bannon’s show was crowned the top peddler of false, misleading and unsubstantiated statements among political podcasts.

Researchers at Brookings downloaded and transcribed 36,603 podcast episodes from 79 political talk shows that had been released before Jan. 22, 2022. When researchers compared the shows’ transcripts against a list of keywords and common falsehoods identified by fact checkers, they found that nearly 20 percent of Mr. Bannon’s “War Room” episodes contained a false, misleading or unsubstantiated statement, more than shows by other conservatives like Glenn Beck and Charlie Kirk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/t...formation.html

[Chicks]

Alex Jones' cell-phone texts mostly reveal what a sad and pathetic life rabid conspiracism makes
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/...piracism-makes

An observation from 30-plus years of reportage: Right-wing extremism as a worldview—especially the conspiracism that is its mother’s milk—is actually exhausting. The constant rage and hatred and paranoia that it’s always generating takes a tremendous amount of energy. It wears people out, inside and out. In the end, people who go down those rabbit holes become isolated and hollowed out.

Remind anyone of our resident Reich-wingers?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by finnbow

In a study released on Thursday by the Brookings Institution, Mr. Bannon’s show was crowned the top peddler of false, misleading and unsubstantiated statements among political podcasts.

Researchers at Brookings downloaded and transcribed 36,603 podcast episodes from 79 political talk shows that had been released before Jan. 22, 2022. When researchers compared the shows’ transcripts against a list of keywords and common falsehoods identified by fact checkers, they found that nearly 20 percent of Mr. Bannon’s “War Room” episodes contained a false, misleading or unsubstantiated statement, more than shows by other conservatives like Glenn Beck and Charlie Kirk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/t...formation.html

From the article:

Conservative podcasters were 11 times as likely as liberal podcasters to share a claim that fact checkers could refute.

[Chicks]

Faux “News” lawsuits will expose the 'dishonest' network and pose a threat to 'alt-reality media': conservative
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/fox-law...-up-2659422876

After a legal analysis by Harry Litman, Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes said that this is going to be a major threat to other right-wing outlets masquerading as "news."

"Fox is in big trouble," Sykes said. "This was a terrible legal defeat. I've been in the media for a long time. I've followed libel suits. As Harry points out the bar is high. You have to establish they acted in reckless disregard of the truth, and you watch the clips you played from Fox again and again. That is textbook reckless disregard of the truth. It is falsehoods repeated again and again. And the fact is, they were told it was false. They knew it was false. And so you're looking at a lawsuit, the top line is $2.7 billion. That's a lot of money even for the Fox corporation, and I think this litigation is going to get messier."

I’m crying crocodile tears for Faux!

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Faux “News” lawsuits will expose the 'dishonest' network and pose a threat to 'alt-reality media': conservative
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/fox-law...-up-2659422876



I’m crying crocodile tears for Faux!

I hope Smartmatic leaves just enough meat on the bone for Dominion to come in and finish them off.

[donquixote99]

Faux tears here.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Faux tears here.

You won't be the only one crying.

[finnbow]

Where is Whell gonna get his news?

[Rajoo]

^^Musk.