Hundreds of posts spreading misinformation about Covid-19 are being left online despite the “dangerous” material being reported to social media giants. A group of young volunteers scoured social media for coronavirus misinformation between April 20 and May 26 but, after reporting 649 posts that experts believe contravene the platforms’ own standards, fewer than one in 10 were […]

NBC News reporter Adele-Momoko Fraser claimed Tuesday that she did not “collaborate” with an activist organization — despite initially calling its efforts “collaboration” — on a story about Google banning the libertarian website ZeroHedge from its ad platform and threatening the conservative website The Federalist with the same fate unless it removed its comment section. Fraser originally reported […]

Say hello to Imran Ahmed. Mr Ahmed is the Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). That is not a typo by the way, at least as far as Companies House is concerned. The CCDH’s remit is ‘finding practical solutions to the use of identity-based hate to polarise societies and undermine democracy’. Their strategy appears […]

‘Children must be guided not to touch equipment e.g. cones and footballs. The focus should be on kicking the ball and limiting any touching of the ball with hands.’‘Equipment should be handled as little as possible by as few people as possible. Where equipment is handled by more than one person, they should wash their hands […]

HOPEFULLY THIS IS HELPFUL INFORMATION ABOUT COVID-19 LOCKDOWN Do you know that the vast majority of deaths supposedly from Covid-19 have been people who already had serious health problems and were elderly? Do you know that top Virus expert John Oxford says Coronavirus  is a “media epidemic” – will be less UK deaths than normal […]

Labour has urged global tech companies and the UK government to take action to tackle disinformation that is spreading on social media platforms during the coronavirus crisis. Jo Stevens, Labour’s culture and media spokesperson, said: “Combatting the impact of the global Covid-19 crisis is difficult enough, without the uncontrolled spread of extremely harmful content on […]

The NBC journalist who wrote the piece which initially seemed to prompt Google‘s decision to defund ZeroHedge and to caution The Federalist is Adele-Momoko Fraser, a British journalist with two years of experience. She quoted a Google spokeswoman who said both ZeroHedge and The Federalist had been stripped of their ability to monetize.  Momoko-Fraser is believed […]

A plan to release a horde of 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida and Texas is a step closer to fruition after a state regulator approved the idea, over the objections of many environmentalists.People v mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killerRead more Oxitec, a British-based biotechnology company, has targeted the US as […]