Fuck yes, CORK. ❤️ ✊🏼

"Cork City Council has become the first to pass a motion committing “to using factual and accurate information, based on credible sources” in its discussions and debates."

Cork City Council passes first motion tackling misinformation following Belong To 'Check the Facts' campaign:

gcn.ie/cork-city-council-passe…

#CheckTheFacts #LE24 #GE24 #Cork #BelongTo #Misinformation #Disinformation #MastoDaoine #LocalGovernment

Cork City Council passes first motion tackling misinformation following Belong To campaign • GCN

The motion was brought to Cork City Council by Cllr Pádraig Rice, following a pledge he made to Belong To's #CheckTheFacts campaign.

^{Alice Linehan (GCN)}

The takes about 2024 that I agree with or that validate my priors are also bullshit.

#Trump won on disinformation validated by horserace journalism that treats facts as points of controversy.

He won on an imaginary depression, an imaginary crime wave and imaginary hordes of undocumented immigrants pouring over the border.

It wasn't Gaza or Dems using pronouns or refusing to say "illegal aliens" or Harris reaching out to Republicans or any of the rest.
#media #disinformation #election2024

Good for The Guardian...

"We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere."

#media #fascism #elonmusk #disinformation #twitter

theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

^{The Guardian}

"and that while the worst of it is the foreign and far-right intentional distortion of reality, too much of the mainstream media has been deferential and will be more deferential to authoritarianism and will not stop letting the right set the agenda about what to be concerned about and what matters. In fact, I don’t have to believe that disinformation is impactful; I know it because it’s been documented."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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"I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the storm

^{Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)}

"Most American voters who had correct facts about the major issues voted for Harris. Those who didn’t voted for Trump. However, when they were blindly presented with Harris’s policies, they greatly favored them.

What explains this dichotomy and breakdown?

Dan Froomkin 'blames the press' in part for failing to inform many Trump voters when it came to the reality of the economy, inflation, immigration and crime."

~ Wahajat Ali

#Trump #Republicans #disinformation
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/how…

How Corporate Media Helped Re-Elect Trump

Right wing media has been a dominant source of spreading confusion, disinformation and hate. However, establishment media has been a complicit partner. How has it failed and can it do better?

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

'Pure fiction' — Kremlin denies Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine by phone after election victory

Which liar to believe?

The Kremlin has denied reports that President-elect Donald Trump spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Nov. 7, branding the claim " pure fiction."

Washington Post (WP) citing sources familiar with the matter, reported on Nov. 10 that the call took place, claiming Trump advised Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine, and highlighted Washington’s significant military presence in Europe.

Speaking on Nov. 11, #Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed the reports.

"This is the most vivid example of the quality of the information that is now published, sometimes even in fairly respected publications," he told Interfax.

"This is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, this is just false information."

kyivindependent.com/pure-ficti…

#Trump #Putin #disinformation #propaganda #Liars #HybridWar #InformationWarfare #fiction

'Pure fiction' — Kremlin denies Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine by phone after election victory

A report had claimed Trump advised Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine.

^{The Kyiv Independent news desk (The Kyiv Independent)}

This is an interesting article on why Harris may have lost the election. Depending on who you are/were and what beliefs you already had, Harris is either a woke communist or a neoliberal cop.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I think stuff like this also raises the question of how much #disinformation progressives and leftists have absorbed. Mostly it’s not the same disinformation as right-wingers get, although right-wing narratives are so pervasive in the U.S. that most people pick them up.

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I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost

As a phone bank volunteer, I hoped to counter the Republican attacks and half-truths, but people really believed them, says journalist and podcaster Oliver Hall

^{Oliver Hall (The Guardian)}

FYI, I will “unwittingly” share your nonsense for a pepperoni pizza.

“I don’t have any idea where it came from or anything - I’m just the guy who shared it,” he said.
#maga #russia #disinformation #Election2024

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