propaganda
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Apple Called Out for ‘Scientifically Inaccurate’ Greenwashing
Apple has been touting its environmental bonafides, but the EU’s largest consumer organisation calls all mention of ‘carbon neutral’ misleading.
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You Really Don’t Want the Government to Be Your Content Moderator
“All governments lie,” the leftist journalist I.F. Stone once said. Stone wasn’t trying to be provocative, merely pointing out that there’s a pretty basic reason we have a free press in the United States: the government is not a reliable narrator. Governments aren’t inherent liars; they just don’t always have a good reason to tell…
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Chinese State Media Suggests Covid-19 Pandemic Started by Frozen Meat Imported Into Wuhan
Chinese state media outlet the Global Times released a new editorial on Sunday strongly suggesting the covid-19 pandemic, which started in the city of Wuhan, may have been caused by frozen meat imported from overseas. The suggestion is just the latest volley in a dispute over whether the Chinese government could have done more to…
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White House Propaganda Video Falsely Claims ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Planted Bricks for Protesters
On Wednesday, the White House tweeted a compilation of videos purporting to document an organised “domestic terror” operation by anti-fascist (antifa) groups to put bricks in the hands of rioters during nationwide protests against police brutality that have rocked the country for the past week. Within two hours, the tweet disappeared.