Propaganda

Did Joe Biden’s much-publicized suggestion that he wanted to “transition” off fossil fuels during a presidential debate cost him the election? Evidently not. Biden is projected to flip Pennsylvania with a healthy margin, and he carried fossil fuel–producing states New Mexico and Colorado. Democrats did underperform further down the ballot,…

In Brief State-sponsored disinformation campaigns are being blocked and agents locked out of their accounts 9 Nov 2020 UK intelligence agents are reportedly using techniques developed to eliminate terrorist propaganda in a fresh push to prevent the spread of Russian anti-vaccine disinformation. “It is the latest move by cyberagents to counter activity…

(Reuters) - Britain’s GCHQ has begun an offensive cyber-operation to tackle anti-vaccine propaganda being spread online by hostile states, The Times reported. This latest move by GCHQ, which gathers communications from around the world to identify and disrupt threats to Britain, is an attempt to counter disinformation activities linked to…

Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today described the BJP as the biggest propaganda machine in the country. Accusing the BJP of lying to the people, Omar said the Centre built its case to revoke Article 370 through sheer propaganda. “Now, the land is not ours, the jobs here are not…

The Foreign Office (FO), in a statement, said that the malicious propaganda by the Indian Government was simply an attempt to malign the “Peace Corridor” initiative. Photo: Geo.tv/FilePakistan on Thursday categorically rejected the “baseless and fallacious propaganda” by the Indian Government against the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor, which has also been…

Tom Winter, Ken Dilanian, Kevin Collier and Dartunorro Clark 104d ago / 2:22 AM UTC The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency both issued advisories Friday warning that Iran is spreading propaganda and targeting U.S. state websites, including election sites, in “an intentional effort to influence and interfere with the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The uncertainty and confusion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is being "widely exploited by terror groups for spinning a plethora of sinister schemes", which could lead to a new tide of violence against people and governments. This is the claim of a new international study published…

In the summer of 2016, Matt Drudge hammered the same story again and again on his eponymous news aggregation website, the Drudge Report: Hillary Clinton was not well. She was old and sick and feeble, unable to navigate even a small set of steps without the help of multiple aides.…

Amnesty International has accused Iran’s security forces of torturing hundreds of prisoners in order to extract confessions in the wake of anti-government protests.Price hikes on fuel introduced in November last year became the catalyst for demonstrations across Iran, leading to “mass arrests amid a near-total internet blackout”, the Daily Mail reports.Amnesty’s…

On Day 50 of the Portland protests, in the middle of July, I caught a face full of aerosolized Mace.
 I didn’t yet appreciate the finer distinctions among Mace spray, pepper pellets, and tear gas. The pop-pop-pop sound of the pepper pellets is terrifying; but the sting in your eyes…