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“Political rhetoric.”
Media Minister Catherine Martin is asked if she will delete a tweet in which she falsely claimed that the Constitution says “a woman’s place is in the home” – a claim which was explicitly contradicted by her government’s own Electoral Commission. Question by Ben Scallan.
Arguments about misinformation cannot be sustained when the Government itself is openly misinforming voters about the consequences of what they are asking the public to vote on.
After all, everybody knows that misinformation can only come from the hated “far right”, right?
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“These risks are serious.”
When they say they would like to combat misinformation, they are saying they would like to regulate what you read, what you watch, what you hear, and what you consume.
BEN SCALLAN: “Disinformation” is just a long-winded way of saying “lies.” When governments say they want to “regulate disinformation,” they’re literally talking about letting politicians regulate lying: #gript
Any honest conversation about misinformation would include the basic fact that the greatest purveyors of misinformation in any democracy – not only Irelands – are elected politicians and unelected political actors.
Leo Varadkar says it’s a “far-right myth” and “misinformation” to claim that refugees in Europe have to stop at the first safe country they enter. But numerous politicians from his own government have been saying this for years. Ben Scallan comments #gript
In a nutshell.
In public relations, the concept of an “embargo” is used to guarantee maximum coverage of a news story at a time chosen by the people behind the story. How it works is simple enough: A media organisation is given access to a piece of news well in advance, and told that it may not run […]
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