Fake news and its effect on the community

[bellenuit]

He pushed it on the butt.

 

[basilio]

Maybe we just need to see the correct photo - and choose honest reporters for our news.​

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Protester accused of punching police horse refusing COVID test in jail, court told​

By Cecilia Connell
Posted 38m ago38 minutes ago, updated 35m ago35 minutes ago

Photographers snapped Kristian Pulkownik at Saturday's anti-lockdown protest.(
AFP: Steven Saphore
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A man accused of punching a police horse during Sydney's anti-lockdown protest will remain behind bars after a court heard he was refusing to take a COVID-19 test in prison.

Key points:​

• Kristian Pulkownik remains in custody at Parklea Correctional Centre
• His legal team claims access to him has been restricted
• Mr Pulkownik is being kept in isolation in prison

Kristian Pulkownik was set to appear via video link at Central Local Court this morning charged with four offences, including animal cruelty, unlawful assembly and affray.
But magistrate Mark Richardson told the court Mr Pulkownik couldn't be brought from his cell as he had refused to undergo a COVID-19 test since his arrest at Saturday's protest.

Alleged horse puncher isolated in prison after refusing COVID test, court told

A man accused of punching a police horse during Saturday's anti-lockdown protest in Sydney will remain behind bars after a court hears he is refusing a COVID-19 test in prison.

www.abc.net.au

 

[moXJO]

More a shove then a punch.

 

[basilio]

Now if we are looking for REAL fake news you can't go past Alan Jones. Apparently even too much for teh Daily Telegraph to stomach.

Alan Jones column ended by Daily Telegraph amid controversial Covid and anti-lockdown commentary​

Veteran broadcaster rejects claims he ‘no longer resonates with readers’

.... Jones’s final Telegraph column last week criticised Australia’s response to Covid-19, which he argues is no worse than the flu for healthy people.

On Monday on Sky News, Jones launched an attack on Chant, calling her “dumb” and “out of touch”. “How many villages are missing their idiot?” he said.

The former 2GB broadcaster also defended the Sydney protesters, and in reference to a 38-year-old woman who died in Sydney on Sunday, Jones said it was “highly unlikely” she died of Covid-19.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...as-ray-hadley-calls-out-ridiculous-alan-jones
He said there was no way to tell if the authorities were telling the truth because “there was no autopsy”. He said doctors told him she probably died of a heart attack or a stroke.

Alan Jones column ended by Daily Telegraph amid controversial Covid and anti-lockdown commentary

Veteran broadcaster rejects claims he ‘no longer resonates with readers’

www.theguardian.com

 

[wayneL]

Now if we are looking for REAL fake news you can't go past Alan Jones. Apparently even too much for teh Daily Telegraph to stomach.

Alan Jones column ended by Daily Telegraph amid controversial Covid and anti-lockdown commentary​

Veteran broadcaster rejects claims he ‘no longer resonates with readers’

.... Jones’s final Telegraph column last week criticised Australia’s response to Covid-19, which he argues is no worse than the flu for healthy people.

On Monday on Sky News, Jones launched an attack on Chant, calling her “dumb” and “out of touch”. “How many villages are missing their idiot?” he said.

The former 2GB broadcaster also defended the Sydney protesters, and in reference to a 38-year-old woman who died in Sydney on Sunday, Jones said it was “highly unlikely” she died of Covid-19.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...as-ray-hadley-calls-out-ridiculous-alan-jones
He said there was no way to tell if the authorities were telling the truth because “there was no autopsy”. He said doctors told him she probably died of a heart attack or a stroke.

Alan Jones column ended by Daily Telegraph amid controversial Covid and anti-lockdown commentary

Veteran broadcaster rejects claims he ‘no longer resonates with readers’

www.theguardian.com

Just a point baz, real news is cancelled.

Fake news (eg the horse punch) is du rigeur.

 

[IFocus]

Would that be the Alan Jones broadcasting from his isolated zillion dollar luxury complex?

Alan had the vax like Murdoch yet?

 

[basilio]

This is priceless. Trumps new "Free Speech" social network now attracts ISIS and extremist content.

Well worth checking out IMV.

Pro-Trump social network becomes safe haven for ISIS​

GETTR, the new platform started by members of the former president’s inner circle, is awash with beheading videos and extremist content.

Jihadists flood pro-Trump social network with propaganda

GETTR, the new platform started by members of the former president’s inner circle, is awash with beheading videos and extremist content.

www.politico.com

 

[sptrawler]

Now if we are looking for REAL fake news you can't go past Alan Jones. Apparently even too much for teh Daily Telegraph to stomach.

Alan Jones column ended by Daily Telegraph amid controversial Covid and anti-lockdown commentary​

Veteran broadcaster rejects claims he ‘no longer resonates with readers’

.... Jones’s final Telegraph column last week criticised Australia’s response to Covid-19, which he argues is no worse than the flu for healthy people.

On Monday on Sky News, Jones launched an attack on Chant, calling her “dumb” and “out of touch”. “How many villages are missing their idiot?” he said.

The former 2GB broadcaster also defended the Sydney protesters, and in reference to a 38-year-old woman who died in Sydney on Sunday, Jones said it was “highly unlikely” she died of Covid-19.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...as-ray-hadley-calls-out-ridiculous-alan-jones
He said there was no way to tell if the authorities were telling the truth because “there was no autopsy”. He said doctors told him she probably died of a heart attack or a stroke.

Alan Jones column ended by Daily Telegraph amid controversial Covid and anti-lockdown commentary

Veteran broadcaster rejects claims he ‘no longer resonates with readers’

www.theguardian.com

I thought Murdoch News was all for anti Vax?
Haven't read the story just reading the posts on here.

 

[mullokintyre]

Did anyone else see the photograph below that is being pushed around the various news services?

It is supposed to be the result of a mortar attack by pro Russian forces on aUkrain Kindergarden.
In the OZ, they are pushing the idea that Russia will make a fake video of attacks on Russia by pro Ukraine forces that will give them the pretext to invade Ukraine, a so called false flag trick.
And yet when you look at the above picture, the first thing that screams fake to me is that an explosion capable of punching a hole in a brick wall about a metre thick did not blow out either of the two light fittings on the roof, or blow out the glass adjacent to it.
And they reckon the ruskies are planning false flag events?
Mick

 

[SirRumpole]

How do you watch iview?

ABC iview

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iview.abc.net.au

 

[Knobby22]

Did anyone else see the photograph below that is being pushed around the various news services?

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It is supposed to be the result of a mortar attack by pro Russian forces on aUkrain Kindergarden.
In the OZ, they are pushing the idea that Russia will make a fake video of attacks on Russia by pro Ukraine forces that will give them the pretext to invade Ukraine, a so called false flag trick.
And yet when you look at the above picture, the first thing that screams fake to me is that an explosion capable of punching a hole in a brick wall about a metre thick did not blow out either of the two light fittings on the roof, or blow out the glass adjacent to it.
And they reckon the ruskies are planning false flag events?
Mick

Obviously fake. Who published this?

 

[sptrawler]

ABC iview

Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. The best of ABC dramas, documentaries, comedies and ABC News programs for Australia's most trusted source of local, national and world news.

iview.abc.net.au

Thanks for that Rumpole, wish I had known about it a couple of months ago, the wife bought all 8 series of Vera on DVD and it is sitting there on iview,

 

[mullokintyre]

Obviously fake. Who published this?

Don't know who first put it out, but I have seen it on ABC News TheAustralian Rueters as well as The Guardian
Surely the genius journalists can see the obvious fake? Don't they do any investigations any more?
Mick

 

[Knobby22]

Don't know who first put it out, but I have seen it on ABC News TheAustralian Rueters as well as The Guardian
Surely the genius journalists can see the obvious fake? Don't they do any investigations any more?
Mick

Here's an actual video of the incident from SBS.

'We'll see terrible scenes': Peter Dutton's Ukraine invasion warning as kindergarten shelled

US intelligence agencies say an assault on Ukraine could be ordered within days, despite Russia's claims that it is withdrawing troops from the border.

www.sbs.com.au

 

[mullokintyre]

Here's an actual video of the incident from SBS.

'We'll see terrible scenes': Peter Dutton's Ukraine invasion warning as kindergarten shelled

US intelligence agencies say an assault on Ukraine could be ordered within days, despite Russia's claims that it is withdrawing troops from the border.

www.sbs.com.au

Its a video of the wall after the event, but I have great doubts that the event was a mortar shell.
Mick

 

[wayneL]

Jussie Smollet gets 150 days in Jail and 30 months probation.

At least some fake news gets punished. Just not if you're a politician.

 

[basilio]

One less place to look for Climate Deniers and their ilk.

Pinterest announces ban on all climate misinformation​

Image-focused social network says it will take down content that distorts or denies facts of climate crisis

‘Pinterest believes in cultivating a space that’s trusted and truthful for those using our platform,’ said the company’s head of policy. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Alex Hern

@alexhern
Wed 6 Apr 2022 14.30 BSTLast modified on Wed 6 Apr 2022 14.31 BST


Pinterest is to block all climate misinformation, as the image-focused social network seeks to limit the spread of false and misleading claims.
Under the new policy the site is committing to take down content that distorts or denies the facts of the climate crisis, whether posted as adverts or normal “organic” content.

Pinterest is defining misinformation broadly: the company will take down content that denies the existence or effects of climate change or its human causes, as well as content that “misrepresents scientific data” in order to erode trust in climate science and harmful, false or misleading content about natural disasters and extreme weather events.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/20/paypal-pinterest-takeover-technology-report
“Pinterest believes in cultivating a space that’s trusted and truthful for those using our platform,” said Sarah Bromma, the company’s head of policy. “This bold move is an expansion of our broader misinformation guidelines, which we first developed in 2017 to address public health misinformation, and have since updated to address new and emerging issues as they come to the forefront. The expanded climate misinformation policy is yet another step in Pinterest’s journey to combat misinformation and create a safe space online.”

Pinterest announces ban on all climate misinformation

Image-focused social network says it will take down content that distorts or denies facts of climate crisis

www.theguardian.com

 

[basilio]

I thought this story was pretty out there is terms of challenging the insanity of conspiracy ideology. IMV well worth the full read.

‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists​

Zoe Williams

‘It’s not like I sat down and thought I’m going to make a satire’ … Peter McIndoe pictured at Los Angeles county arboretum and botanic garden. Photograph: Daniel Gonçalves/the Guardian
On a march, Peter McIndoe held up a sign and talked about how the ‘deep state’ had replaced all birds with drones. It was meant as a small act of satire but has become a mass movement

@zoesqwilliams
Thu 14 Apr 2022 06.00 BST


In early 2017, Peter McIndoe, now 23, was studying psychology at the University of Arkansas, and visiting friends in Memphis, Tennessee. He tells me this over Zoom from the US west coast, and has the most arresting face – wide-eyed, curious and intense, like the lead singer of an indie band, or a young monk. “This was right after the Donald Trump election, and things were really tense. I remember people walking around saying they felt as if they were in a movie. Things felt so unstable.”

It was the weekend of simultaneous Women’s Marches across the US (indeed, the world), and McIndoe looked out of the window and noticed “counterprotesters, who were older, bigger white men. They were clear aggravators. They were encroaching on something that was not their event, they had no business being there.” Added to that, “it felt like chaos, because the world felt like chaos”.

McIndoe made a placard, and went out to join the march. “It’s not like I sat down and thought I’m going to make a satire. I just thought: ‘I should write a sign that has nothing to do with what is going on.’ An absurdist statement to bring to the equation.”

That statement was “birds aren’t real”. As he stood with the counterprotesters, and they asked what his sign meant, he improvised. He said he was part of a movement that had been around for 50 years, and was originally started to save American birds, but had failed. The “deep state” had destroyed them all, and replaced them with surveillance drones. Every bird you see is actually a tiny feathered robot watching you.

The movement has enough satirical flags that generation Z recognises immediately what is going on. Photograph: Madeline Houston/courtesy of Birds Aren’t Real

Someone was filming him and put it on Facebook; it went viral, and Memphis is still the centre of the Birds Aren’t Real movement. Or is it a movement? You could call it a situationist spectacle, a piece of rolling performance art or a collective satire. MSNBC called it a “mass coping mechanism” for generation Z, and as it has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, “mass”, at least, is on the money.

It’s the most perfect, playful distillation of where we are in relation to the media landscape we’ve built but can’t control, and which only half of us can find our way around. It’s a made-up conspiracy theory that is just realistic enough, as conspiracies go, to convince QAnon supporters that birds aren’t real, but has just enough satirical flags that generation Z recognises immediately what is going on. It’s a conspiracy-within-a-conspiracy, a little aneurysm of reality and mockery in the bloodstream of the mad pizzagate-style theories that animate the “alt-right”.

‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists

On a march, Peter McIndoe held up a sign and talked about how the ‘deep state’ had replaced all birds with drones. It was meant as a small act of satire but has become a mass movement

www.theguardian.com

 

[wayneL]

I thought this story was pretty out there is terms of challenging the insanity of conspiracy ideology. IMV well worth the full read.

‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists​

Zoe Williams
View attachment 140492
‘It’s not like I sat down and thought I’m going to make a satire’ … Peter McIndoe pictured at Los Angeles county arboretum and botanic garden. Photograph: Daniel Gonçalves/the Guardian
On a march, Peter McIndoe held up a sign and talked about how the ‘deep state’ had replaced all birds with drones. It was meant as a small act of satire but has become a mass movement

View attachment 140493

@zoesqwilliams
Thu 14 Apr 2022 06.00 BST


In early 2017, Peter McIndoe, now 23, was studying psychology at the University of Arkansas, and visiting friends in Memphis, Tennessee. He tells me this over Zoom from the US west coast, and has the most arresting face – wide-eyed, curious and intense, like the lead singer of an indie band, or a young monk. “This was right after the Donald Trump election, and things were really tense. I remember people walking around saying they felt as if they were in a movie. Things felt so unstable.”

It was the weekend of simultaneous Women’s Marches across the US (indeed, the world), and McIndoe looked out of the window and noticed “counterprotesters, who were older, bigger white men. They were clear aggravators. They were encroaching on something that was not their event, they had no business being there.” Added to that, “it felt like chaos, because the world felt like chaos”.

McIndoe made a placard, and went out to join the march. “It’s not like I sat down and thought I’m going to make a satire. I just thought: ‘I should write a sign that has nothing to do with what is going on.’ An absurdist statement to bring to the equation.”

That statement was “birds aren’t real”. As he stood with the counterprotesters, and they asked what his sign meant, he improvised. He said he was part of a movement that had been around for 50 years, and was originally started to save American birds, but had failed. The “deep state” had destroyed them all, and replaced them with surveillance drones. Every bird you see is actually a tiny feathered robot watching you.
View attachment 140494
The movement has enough satirical flags that generation Z recognises immediately what is going on. Photograph: Madeline Houston/courtesy of Birds Aren’t Real

Someone was filming him and put it on Facebook; it went viral, and Memphis is still the centre of the Birds Aren’t Real movement. Or is it a movement? You could call it a situationist spectacle, a piece of rolling performance art or a collective satire. MSNBC called it a “mass coping mechanism” for generation Z, and as it has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, “mass”, at least, is on the money.

It’s the most perfect, playful distillation of where we are in relation to the media landscape we’ve built but can’t control, and which only half of us can find our way around. It’s a made-up conspiracy theory that is just realistic enough, as conspiracies go, to convince QAnon supporters that birds aren’t real, but has just enough satirical flags that generation Z recognises immediately what is going on. It’s a conspiracy-within-a-conspiracy, a little aneurysm of reality and mockery in the bloodstream of the mad pizzagate-style theories that animate the “alt-right”.

‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists

On a march, Peter McIndoe held up a sign and talked about how the ‘deep state’ had replaced all birds with drones. It was meant as a small act of satire but has become a mass movement

www.theguardian.com

It's not it's not a lot different to the trope that everyone is either an alphabet soupers, or a Nazi.

I think it's high time that everybody stops categorising those on the absolute extremes, as representative of everybody on that side of the spectrum.

"They" are intentionally dividing us and if only we could have reasonable conversations without reference to the lunatics, we would probably find that none of us are really that far away from each other.

It's our choice we... All of us, need to wake up and see what is being done to us.

 

[rederob]

It's our choice we... All of us, need to wake up and see what is being done to us.

It's your choice to believe or not, whatever it is that's in question.
There is a wealth of information available to confirm or otherwise, or "fact check," what's thrown up.
Despite this, there remains the usual doubters that cling to absolute nonsense. For example, here at ASF there are still some who do not understand the role of CO2 wrt to climate change, and proclaim ideas that have been so many times debunked it gets tiresome.
But Trump did win the election!
Sadly for @DB008 it was just the one - in 2016.