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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 […]
“I’m going to have to pause before I answer that particular question”: Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe says RTÉ is important to tackle “misinformation,” but declines to say whether that means RTÉ is more truthful than other media outlets when asked. Question by Ben Scallan. #gript
A smart Russian would look at Ireland and see a country relatively friendly to the west, on good terms with the Americans, and with absolutely negligible counter-intelligence capabilities, and ask a simple question: Why change what works for us?
This particular consultation concerns what the Government should do about “misinformation” and “disinformation”.
Bias and censorship
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