Tag: propaganda

Snowden criticizes US’s attempt to pressure journalists to accuse Assange

Edward Snowden called the Biden regime’s attempt to strengthen charges against Julian Assange a ‘historic scandal’, Newsweek reports. Snowden expressed his outrage at the fact that the founder of WikiLeaks was being persecuted for political reasons and the silence of the mainstream media about how the FBI put pressure on journalists, trying to get them to testify against Assange.

Syria withdraws BBC certification due to fake news propaganda

Damascus has accused the British news channel of ‘providing politicized and misleading reports’ about the situation in the country. As a consequence, BBC journalists will no longer be able to legally work in Syria after the country’s authorities revoked their accreditation. Officials in Damascus claim that the British news channel produced news reports on multiple occasions which provided a distorted picture of reality in the Arab country.

Zuckerberg admits that Facebook removed millions of posts during the Covid-19 pandemic

Facebook was asked by the ‘scientific establishment’ to remove posts related to Covid-19 which later proved to be ’debatable or true,’ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a podcast interview this week. Speaking to the Russian-American interviewer Lex Fridman in a podcast released on Thursday, Zuckerberg said that policing Facebook’s attempts to remove mistruths is really tricky.

Kill the Boers song is not hate speech rules South African court

‘Shoot the Boers, shoot, shoot’ are bizarre race-hating lyrics from a popular song used by radical Black groups in South Africa. The Equality Division of the Supreme Court in South Africa has ruled that the song ‘Kill the Boers’ was not a case of ‘hate speech.’ The hateful song, which celebrates the killing of Dutch settlers in South Africa, is protected by freedom of expression and must be left to the political debate within society, according to the court.

James Bond books to be revised over racist references

Ian Fleming’s novels will reportedly be reissued with ‘offensive language’ and racial references removed. The literary tales of Agent 007 are being reworked to better accommodate the sensitivities of woke audiences, To mark the 70th anniversary of Casino Royale – Ian Fleming’s first novel featuring James Bond – the company that owns the rights to the texts has reportedly commissioned so-called ‘sensitivity readers’ to review the classic thrillers.

THE GREAT WORD WAR

To make ends meet, the wife of Europe’s most successful author and poet washes dishes in a restaurant for €6 an hour. A dissident publisher offered to publish Michael Walsh books but requires a $150 contribution per book publishing cost. Michael appealed for help and received just $20.