They routinely rate true statements by Republicans as false.
They also have selection bias. Where they only Fact check true statements from Democrats and ignore the full statement from Democrats.
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They routinely rate true statements by Republicans as false.
They also have selection bias. Where they only Fact check true statements from Democrats and ignore the full statement from Democrats.
The next time you receive a friend request on Facebook, take a moment to review their information in the ABOUT section. Pay a visit to their FRIENDS list, and see how many friends you have in common. Look in the MORE section and see what their interests are.
Meet Mary Lambert, she lives in North Carolina. Mary just sent me a friend request, and wants to connect with me on Facebook. I get dozens of requests from such people, mostly women, who have profiles that look just like Mary's profile. I always click the DELETE REQUEST button, and then immediately click the MARK AS SPAM button, and Mary Lambert joins the others who have the same kind of profile.
You see, Mary Lambert is not a real person, at least not in the profile I see in front of me. Mary's profile is filled with red flags which identify it as coming from either hackers seeking access to my information, or from surveillance groups like the NSA or the FBI looking to monitor people.
© Leon Neal / AFP
The alarm over a federal-backed outlet targeting its Facebook ads at US audiences was sounded by the New York Times. The paper said that the move constituted a "potential violation" of the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which protects Americans citizens from domestic propaganda.
It's illegal for federal-funded news organizations under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to promote their content in the US without a special request - and no such request was received by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) this time around.
Comment: Propaganda's bad...unless the CIA's doing it:
- Russophobia: CIA mouthpiece "Radio free Europe" lets slip on Russian aggression
- The bizarre propaganda world of US-backed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
However, narratives promoted by activists and the media currently undermine the crucial parental role in diagnosing dysphoria and helping to determine the most appropriate treatment. Amid glowing media discussions of brave trans kids and their heroic, supportive parents hangs an ominous specter of ignorant, bigoted parents who coldly turn their child out, or cause him or her to endure torturous conversion therapy to eradicate transgender feelings. Tales of the former abound. These stories are told in detail and with soaring rhetoric. In contrast, the latter kind of parents are always darkly implied, but rarely discussed with specifics. Rather, their influence is frequently invoked to underscore the dangers of not immediately affirming a child's chosen gender.
Comment:
- Trans activists furious after essay highlighting "detransitioning" appears in The Atlantic
- Transgenderism: The "desistance myth" is the real myth
- Desistance: The missing piece in the conversation about 'transgender kids'
- Getting the statistics right: The majority of kids cease to feel transgender as they get older
- I'm a pediatrician. How transgender ideology has infiltrated my field and produced large-scale child abuse
© Now The End Begins
Search engine bias: Nazism designation
Search engine bias: Nazism designation
Some may object to the charge that they have abandoned their oft-repeated mantra "Don't Be Evil" - but to be clear, this has always meant, as Eric Schmidt (Executive Director of Google at the time) stated in a Wired profile in 2003, "Evil," he said, "is what Sergey says is evil" (referring to Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google together with Larry Page).
As for the second point,
"As Stanford's Terry Winograd, Page and Brin's former professor and a consultant on Gmail, explains to Ken Auletta, "The idea that somebody at Google could know better than the consumer what's good for the consumer is not forbidden." He describes his former students' attitude as "a form of arrogance: 'We know better.'" .....
"[Larry] Page and [Sergey] Brin designed Google to avoid human judgment in rating the relevance of web pages. Recounting Google's original design, Steven Levy describes the founders' opinion that "having a human being determine the ratings was out of the question," not just because "it was inherently impractical," but also because "humans were unreliable. Only algorithms - well drawn, efficiently executed, and based on sound data - could deliver unbiased results."
- Alex White, in "Google.gov"
Comment: Google's hiring preferences reflect the companies twisted perception of reality:
- A 'conspiracy theory' no more: Google is the NSA's branch of information warfare
- Damore Lawsuit Exposes Extremist Ideology And Social Intolerance at Google
- Google to de-rank RT and Sputnik, makes millions in advertising revenue from videos that exploit children
- Big brother: Google lets 3rd-party app developers read your emails
- Google employees confess all the things they hated most about working at Google
But statistics don't interpret themselves, and the wealth gap is no exception. A recent wave of scholarship-including Mehrsa Baradaran's The Color of Money, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law, and Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The Case for Reparations"-has converged on the interpretation that the wealth gap is caused by two factors: slavery and racist New Deal policies.
Comment:
- Newt Gingrich: Latinos, Blacks Don't Understand 'Key To Future Wealth,' But Asians Do
- Net worth of average Black family is 90% less than that of average White family
- What the data actually says about police violence against black men - and why the media narrative is dangerous
- How work, not welfare programs, is transformative
© The Free Thought Project
Conservative media pundit Mike Cernovich exposed Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn's history of making pedophilic tweets and "joking" about child rape, but rather than media outrage about Gunn's "jokes" involving sexually assaulting and raping children, the mainstream media circled the wagons to defend the Hollywood director.
After his extremely offensive tweets about pedophilia and rape became widely publicized, Gunn apologized, but was ultimately fired as director of Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Gunn released a statement Friday afternoon after Disney fired the director of the first two "Guardians" movies:
Comment:
- Hollywood and corporate media are crusading to normalize pedophilia
- Weinstein is just the tip of the iceberg: Former child actors reveal Hollywood's organized pedophilia
- Normalizing pedophilia: Disgusting TEDx Talk declares it's a 'natural sexual orientation'
- Mainstream media normalizes pedophilia with 'Victoria's Secret'-style lingerie show featuring 5 year old girls
- Normalization of Pedophilia: Psychopaths Try to Recreate Society in Their Own Image
- Ponerization in science: Conference of university academics say it's normal for males to be aroused by children and pedophilia is natural
- 'Gender diversity' art exhibition shut down after backlash over promoting bestiality and pedophilia
© The Free Thought Project
Officer Desmond Logan is being investigated after the sexual misconduct allegations against him allege that he brutally raped multiple women in the community he was supposed to be "protecting and serving."
The investigation began after Logan was accused of sexually assaulting a woman last month, and when police began looking into it, they found that there were allegations of a similar assault three years ago. According to a report from the Times Free Press, a current police officer and a separate source asserted that Logan was accused of raping a woman while on duty in 2015, and that "department leadership knew about that allegation."
The incident occurred around 1 pm on Saturday in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, where witnesses saw two members of the Canadian Armed Forces unsuccessfully chase after the howitzer after it mysteriously detached from the military vehicle towing it, according to the Vancouver Sun.
© Atef Safadi/European Press Agency
Smoke rises as a result of Russian airstrikes on rebel positions on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
Smoke rises as a result of Russian airstrikes on rebel positions on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
It's a regular stop for holidaymakers in Israel. American teenagers, some of them boys in sleeveless basketball tops, cluster on hilltop lookouts in the Golan Heights, a volcanic plateau captured from Syria half a century ago. Visitors ride quad bikes along dusty paths or spend the day touring the area's vineyards. Signs on the roads warn of the risks to tourists: "Caution - cyclists ahead."
For Syrians on the other side of a fortified perimeter fence, there are more pressing concerns. Thousands have gathered as close to the border as possible, gambling their lives on the assumption that Syrian government forces fighting rebels will not bring the battle too close to Israel.
Comment: If Israel claims the territory then why aren't they taking these people in? Apparently they view the responsibility the same way they view the West Bank and Gaza.
Comment: For PolitiFact and other so-called fact-checkers, 'facts' have been redefined. Such organizations exist to confirm and support establishment views: