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    For some help seeing media bias and how to manage it:

    https://www.allsides.com/media-bias

    I appreciate how they label individual articles, too.

    As I was browsing some international news on Reuters last night, I was appreciating their no-nonsense approach to mostly factual reporting.

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    Here is an AI algorithm based media rating site, founded in 2017. Interesting.

    https://www.biasly.com/

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    Golly! He forgot to mention Hunter Biden's laptop.

    Tucker Carlson peddles conspiracy theories on Twitter debut from barn

    Ex-Fox News host backs Russia and insults Ukraine’s Zelenskiy in 10-minute monologue greeted with widespread derision


    Martin Pengelly
    7 Jun 2023 10.32 EDT



    Tucker Carlson’s debut on Twitter was greeted with widespread derision, as the former Fox News host backed Russia in its war with Ukraine, abused the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, invoked conspiracy theories about 9/11 and Jeffrey Epstein and mused on the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life.

    “Tucker Carlson’s lies cost Fox $800m,” said Anne Applebaum, a historian of authoritarianism, referring to the $787.5m settlement the network signed with Dominion Voting Systems over its broadcast of Donald Trump’s election lies, shortly before Carlson was fired. “Now he is still lying, and Twitter will eventually pay the price too.”

    At the end of Carlson’s first show, a 10-minute monologue in a barn, with a wide shot showing he was operating his own teleprompter, the host said he would bypass the mainstream media to tell viewers the truth, as Russians under communism once found ways to hear broadcasts from other countries. He said: “We’ve come to Twitter which we hope will be the shortwave radio under the blankets. We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave … We’ll be back with much more very soon.”

    Elon Musk, the Twitter owner, retweeted the video and said it would be “great to have shows from all parts of the political spectrum on this platform”.

    By Wednesday, Twitter said Carlson’s video had been viewed more than 65m times.

    The first taste of what that audience can expect included claims that Ukraine blew up the Kakhovka dam, not Russia, and lewd insinuations about the Republican senator Lindsey Graham. Carlson said Graham was “attracted” to the “rat-like” Zelenskiy and “aroused” by “the aroma of death”. Carlson also called Zelenskiy “sweaty … a comedian turned oligarch, a persecutor of Christians”.

    Carlson also said: “What exactly happened on 9/11? Well, it’s still classified. How did Jeffrey Epstein make all that money. How did he die? How about JFK and so endlessly on.”

    He also raised the case of a retired air force officer who claims the US has extensive evidence of alien life. “It was clear he was telling the truth,” Carlson said, without elaborating.

    Matthew Gertz, senior fellow at the progressive watchdog Media Matters for America, called Carlson’s video “bleak” and added: “It’s jarring how his shtick just does not work without the Fox bells-and-whistles. “He was maybe the most powerful man in [rightwing] media; now he’s just another streamer with half-baked opinions peddling conspiracy theories. He’s Alex Jones in jacket and tie.”

    Jones, a conspiracy theorist influential on the far right, was ordered to pay $1.5bn for saying the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was faked.

    Gertz added: “I notice [Carlson] presented other media as dishonest and foolish for not realizing that Ukraine blew up [the] Nord Stream [pipeline] but he previously said the US did it, and also the new evidence he cites was broken by New York Times.”

    On the right, Carlson found eager viewers. The anonymous Twitter account Catturd (known to Rolling Stone as “the shitposting king of Maga Twitter”), wrote: “Good morning to everyone especially Tucker Carlson for breaking Twitter with now over 50 million views and talking truth to power. “This is the future of media ... the mainstream Democrat, lying propaganda media is done.”

    But condemnation and ridicule were widespread.

    Reed Galen, a former Republican operative turned anti-Trump campaigner, tweeted a picture of Carlson operating his own teleprompter and a message pointing to the unknown payoff Carlson took from Fox News. “You’d think with all those Rupert [Murdoch] bucks he could hire a producer,” Galen said.


    https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...e_iOSApp_Other

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    Yawn

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    Fox News producer behind Biden ‘wannabe dictator’ chyron resigns

    Alexander McCaskill left network following banner about Biden that read ‘wannabe dictator speaks at the White House’


    Edward Helmore
    16 Jun 2023

    The Fox News producer thought to have been responsible for running a provocative banner headline about Joe Biden during Donald Trump’s response to his criminal indictment on Tuesday has left the network, according to reports. Alexander McCaskill, former managing editor of Tucker Carlson Tonight, resigned following the banner, or chyron, that read “wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested”, according to the Daily Beast.

    Fox News had addressed the banner debacle in a statement on Wednesday, saying “the chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed”. But it still provoked criticism from multiple angles.

    The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said that Fox airing the chyron was “wrong”, while the former Fox host Tucker Carlson said during his Twitter show on Thursday that the banner, which he said was up for 27 seconds, had caused “the women who run the network” to panic. “First they scolded the producer who put the banner on the screen,” Carlson claimed. “Less than 24 hours after that, he resigned. He had been at Fox for more than a decade. He was considered one of the most capable people in the building. He offered to stay for the customary two weeks, but Fox told him to clear out his desk and leave immediately.”

    McCaskill, the Fox News producer at the center of the chyron controversy, also featured in a lawsuit brought by former Fox talent booker Abby Grossberg that claims Fox News, Fox Corp and employees including Tucker Carlson fostered a workplace riven with abusive behaviors. Grossberg claims she was subjected to religious discrimination by McCaskill, who placed three inflatable Christmas decorations in the bookings area – “a preposterous display that was distracting and loud” and a smaller one by her desk with a sign that read “Hannukah bush”. Grossberg is Jewish.

    McCaskill, the lawsuit claims, “habitually belittled female employees”. While pitching a promotional idea for Carlson’s End of Men documentary, McCaskill remarked that the breastfeeding “mother’s room” was a “waste of space” and should be replaced with a “room of tanning beds for the guys to tan their testicles”. Grossberg also claims that McCaskill and another producer, Justin Wells, once remarked that a junior booker who reported to Grossberg “should use her sex appeal to the TCT team’s advantage, such as by ‘sleep[ing] with Elon Musk to get [an] interview’”.

    Fox News has said that Grossberg’s lawsuit was “riddled with false allegations”. But following its multimillion-dollar settlement in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case, and Carlson’s exit from Fox News sooner after, CNN reported on Thursday that the Murdoch-owned station was close to settling with Grossberg.


    https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...e_iOSApp_Other

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    I love that woke Archie continues to prove the thesis.
    "A truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chip View Post
    [B]... But following its multimillion-dollar settlement in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case, and Carlson’s exit from Fox News sooner after, CNN reported on Thursday that the Murdoch-owned station was close to settling with Grossberg.
    As well they should.

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    Cool. Now do CNN and Chris Cuomo.
    "A truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged."

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    Okay. You do Bannon.

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    I’ve tried. You guys get triggered and start shrieking.
    "A truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged."

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    That's not shrieking.

    It's laughter.

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    I’d like to take your word for that, but your tribe thinks men can have periods and women can have a penis.

    Not a good track record for credibility.
    "A truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged."

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    The War Against Truth and Facts.

    G.O.P. Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election

    A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.


    Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel
    June 19, 2023

    On Capitol Hill and in the courts, Republican lawmakers and activists are mounting a sweeping legal campaign against universities, think tanks and private companies that study the spread of disinformation, accusing them of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online. The effort has encumbered its targets with expansive requests for information and, in some cases, subpoenas — demanding notes, emails and other information related to social media companies and the government dating back to 2015. Complying has consumed time and resources and already affected the groups’ ability to do research and raise money, according to several people involved.

    They and others warned that the campaign undermined the fight against disinformation in American society when the problem is, by most accounts, on the rise — and when another presidential election is around the corner. Many of those behind the Republican effort had also joined former President Donald J. Trump in falsely challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

    “I think it’s quite obviously a cynical — and I would say wildly partisan — attempt to chill research,” said Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute, an organization that works to safeguard freedom of speech and the press.

    The House Judiciary Committee, which in January came under Republican majority control, has sent scores of letters and subpoenas to the researchers — only some of which have been made public. It has threatened legal action against those who have not responded quickly or fully enough.

    A conservative advocacy group led by Stephen Miller, the former adviser to Mr. Trump, filed a class-action lawsuit last month in U.S. District Court in Louisiana that echoes many of the committee’s accusations and focuses on some of the same defendants. Targets include Stanford, Clemson and New York Universities and the University of Washington; the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund and the National Conference on Citizenship, all nonpartisan, nongovernmental organizations in Washington; the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco; and Graphika, a company that researches disinformation online.

    In a related line of inquiry, the committee has also issued a subpoena to the World Federation of Advertisers, a trade association, and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media it created. The committee’s Republican leaders have accused the groups of violating antitrust laws by conspiring to cut off advertising revenue for content researchers and tech companies found to be harmful. A House subcommittee was created to scrutinize what Republicans have charged is a government effort to silence conservatives. The committee’s chairman, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, a close ally of Mr. Trump, has accused the organizations of “censorship of disfavored speech” involving issues that have galvanized the Republican Party: the policies around the Covid-19 pandemic and the integrity of the American political system, including the outcome of the 2020 election.

    Much of the disinformation surrounding both issues has come from the right. Many Republicans are convinced that researchers who study disinformation have pressed social media platforms to discriminate against conservative voices. Those complaints have been fueled by Twitter’s decision under its new owner, Elon Musk, to release selected internal communications between government officials and Twitter employees. The communications show government officials urging Twitter to take action against accounts spreading disinformation but stopping short of ordering them to do, as some critics claimed.

    Patrick L. Warren, an associate professor at Clemson University, said researchers at the school have provided documents to the committee, and given some staff members a short presentation. “I think most of this has been spurred by our appearance in the Twitter files, which left people with a pretty distorted sense of our mission and work,” he said.

    Last year, the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana sued the Biden administration in U.S. District Court in Louisiana, arguing that government officials effectively cajoled or coerced Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms by threatening legislative changes. The judge, Terry A. Doughty, rejected a defense motion to dismiss the lawsuit in March. The current campaign’s focus is not government officials but rather private individuals working for universities or nongovernmental organizations. They have their own First Amendment guarantees of free speech, including their interactions with the social media companies.

    The group behind the class action, America First Legal, named as defendants two researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory, Alex Stamos and Renée DiResta; a professor at the University of Washington, Kate Starbird; an executive of Graphika, Camille François; and the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, Graham Brookie. If the lawsuit proceeds, they could face trial and, potentially, civil damages if the accusations are upheld.

    Stephen Miller, the president of America First Legal, did not respond to a request for comment. In a statement last month, he said the lawsuit was “striking at the heart of the censorship-industrial complex.” The researchers, who have been asked by the House committee to submit emails and other records, are also defendants in the lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana. The plaintiffs include Jill Hines, a director of Health Freedom Louisiana, an organization that has been accused of disinformation, and Jim Hoft, the founder of the Gateway Pundit, a right-wing news site. The court in the Western District of Louisiana has, under Judge Doughty, become a favored venue for legal challenges against the Biden administration.

    The attacks use “the same argument that starts with some false premises,” said Jeff Hancock, the founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, which is not a party to any of the legal action. “We see it in the media, in the congressional committees and in lawsuits, and it is the same core argument, with a false premise about the government giving some type of direction to the research we do.”

    The House Judiciary Committee has focused much of its questioning on two collaborative projects. One was the Election Integrity Partnership, which Stanford and the University of Washington formed before the 2020 election to identify attempts “to suppress voting, reduce participation, confuse voters or delegitimize election results without evidence.” The other, also organized by Stanford, was called the Virality Project and focused on the spread of disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Both subjects have become political lightning rods, exposing the researchers to partisan attacks online that have become ominously personal at times.

    In the case of the Stanford Internet Observatory, the requests for information — including all emails — have even extended to students who volunteered to work as interns for the Election Integrity Partnership. A central premise of the committee’s investigation — and the other complaints about censorship — is that the researchers or government officials had the power or ability to shut down accounts on social media. They did not, according to former employees at Twitter and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, who said the decision to punish users who violated platform rules belonged solely to the companies.

    No evidence has emerged that government officials coerced the companies to take action against accounts, even when the groups flagged problematic content. “We have not only academic freedom as researchers to conduct this research but freedom of speech to tell Twitter or any other company to look at tweets we might think violate rules,” Mr. Hancock said.

    The universities and research organizations have sought to comply with the committee’s requests, though the collection of years of emails has been a time-consuming task complicated by issues of privacy. They face mounting legal costs and questions from directors and donors about the risks raised by studying disinformation. Online attacks have also taken a toll on morale and, in some cases, scared away students.

    In May, Mr. Jordan, the committee’s chairman, threatened Stanford with unspecified legal action for not complying with a previously issued subpoena, even though the university’s lawyers have been negotiating with the committee’s lawyers over how to shield students’ privacy. (Several of the students who volunteered are identified in the America First Legal lawsuit.) The committee declined to discuss details of the investigation, including how many requests or subpoenas it has filed in total. Nor has it disclosed how it expects the inquiry to unfold — whether it would prepare a final report or make criminal referrals and, if so, when. In its statements, though, it appears to have already reached a broad conclusion.

    “The Twitter files and information from private litigation show how the federal government worked with social media companies and other entities to silence disfavored speech online,” a spokesman, Russell Dye, said in a statement. “The committee is working hard to get to the bottom of this censorship to protect First Amendment rights for all Americans.”

    The partisan controversy is having an effect on not only the researchers but also the social media giants. Twitter, under Mr. Musk, has made a point of lifting restrictions and restoring accounts that had been suspended, including the Gateway Pundit’s. YouTube recently announced that it would no longer ban videos that advanced “false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past U.S. presidential elections.”


    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/b...e=articleShare

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    False conspiracy videos get too many views and generate too much revenue. God bless the mighty dollar!

    In my own case, I get <1% of my news information from Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube combined. Can't speak for others on that, though. My one brother, a fairly solid Republican, sends me anti-Dem stuff from Reddit regularly (I get no news info from Reddit--but I look at pen sales there!). The Reddit stuff he sends me is mostly bullshit.

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    Is supposed that an indictment of Reddit? If so, you don’t understand how it works (or Twitter, for that matter).
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    What stands out is the tacit admission by the GOP that so-called "conservative speech" consists mostly of lies, falsehoods, fantasies, and Russian disinformation.

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    God forbid you try to study the propagation of falsehoods with some govt funds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TSherbs View Post
    God forbid you try to study the propagation of falsehoods with some govt funds.
    What about the Benghazi hearings?

    Or is propagating falsehoods different than the study of how they are propagated?

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    It doesn't help if the media reports these kind of untruths made by politicians running for office (without fact checks): https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...median-income/

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    TSherbs has several sets of rosary beads. Next he'll be bumping the election trust thread, although the latest Rasmussen poll would make that a mistake.
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