Tag: misinformation

  • Information Quality Act: Basis for Serious Regulatory Reform

    Information Quality Act: Basis for Serious Regulatory Reform

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    by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Sep. 21, 2026) — A July 23, 2026, New York Times article, “Big Businesses Quietly Desert Climate Goals,” illustrates an unsettling feature of American policymaking: major corporations often adjust their policy priorities to accommodate the beliefs and preferences of whichever administration holds power. The potential rewards are substantial—subsidies, grants, tax…

  • CNN Is Not Defending Science. It Is Defending a Technology From Scientific Scrutiny.

    CNN Is Not Defending Science. It Is Defending a Technology From Scientific Scrutiny.

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    by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Aug. 30, 2026) — CNN has published another article in which the label “misinformation” does the work that evidence should have done. The August 23 article, “mRNA Cancer Vaccines: Promising but Dogged by Misinformation”, celebrates Moderna and Merck’s personalized melanoma treatment while dismissing concern about cancer following COVID-19 vaccination.…

  • Facts, Fiction, and  Institutional Hypocrisy Coming to Local Libraries

    Facts, Fiction, and  Institutional Hypocrisy Coming to Local Libraries

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    by John Mikkelsen, ©2026 (Jul. 15, 2026) — Who’d have guessed that a quick read of an email from our local library would have caused me to almost spill my morning cup of cappuccino as I laughed at the irony and sheer hypocrisy of an upcoming “Matter of Facts Workshop” on misinformation. That topic could be…

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Elephant in the Data Room

    Artificial Intelligence and the Elephant in the Data Room

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    by John Mikkelsen, ©2026 (Jul. 8, 2026) — Artificial Intelligence is a major issue these days for all sorts of reasons ranging from union concerns over likely job losses to the big question mark hanging over its huge energy appetite, but there’s another fat elephant in the room – can it be trusted as a…

  • Is Censorship Really Dead?

    Is Censorship Really Dead?

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    by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 8, 2025) — On Tuesday, Meta‘s new President of Global Policy, Joel Kaplan, was a guest on “Fox & Friends” to augment Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement Monday evening that the company will be abandoning the practice of “fact-checking” on its platforms, specifically Facebook and Instagram. The use of…

  • The EU DSA Letter

    The EU DSA Letter

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    by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Aug. 15, 2024) — The recent letter to Elon Musk by Monsieur Thierry Breton – “Il Duce” of the European Union’s (“EU”) speech police charged with enforcing that cabal’s “Digital Services Act” (“DSA,” i.e., arbitrary censorship law) – is interesting.  Mercifully, the higher-ups in the EU have smacked Breton upside the…

  • Trumped by a Costly “Computer Glitch”

    Trumped by a Costly “Computer Glitch”

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    by John Mikkelsen, ©2024 (Jul. 22, 2024) — Like many Australians, I had just finished watching a live telecast of Donald Trump’s inspiring speech at the US Republican National Convention following his miraculous survival of an assassination attempt, when suddenly the screen pixelated then died. Trump recounted how he had survived a sniper’s bullet which…

  • Restoring Trust in Government by Using the IQA

    Restoring Trust in Government by Using the IQA

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    by William L. Kovacs, ©2023 (Apr. 10, 2023) — The Federal government has left citizens living in information confusion, misinformation and conspiracy theories. Information clutter helps explain why only two in ten Americans trust Washington to do the right thing. But distinguishing between good and bad quality information should never be difficult when the information…

  • Does Twitter Continue to Censor COVID-19 “Misinformation”?

    Does Twitter Continue to Censor COVID-19 “Misinformation”?

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    by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 29, 2022) — Perhaps surprisingly, the hashtag “VaccineInjured” trended briefly on Twitter Friday night, moving from third to second place at approximately 9:57 p.m. EDT. Twitter is now reportedly suppressing all tweets from The Epoch Times, which, unlike the majority of the media, has expounded on scientific findings of adverse events…

  • NY Times Runs Another Hit Piece on Dr. Mercola 

    NY Times Runs Another Hit Piece on Dr. Mercola 

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    by Dr. Joseph Mercola, reposted with permission (Jun. 10, 2022) — The New York Times (NYT) was once upon a time the gold standard of the American free press, lovingly known as the “Gray Lady” — a nod to its fearlessly honest and impartial reporting of “all the news that’s fit to print.” Those days…

  • America’s Hitlerian Henchmen

    America’s Hitlerian Henchmen

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    by Cherie Zaslawsky, NewswithViews, ©2021 (Oct. 22, 2021) — When describing the evils of the Nazi regime, we tend to focus on Hitler himself. And though we can place the responsibility for the Holocaust squarely on his shoulders, he could never have accomplished his genocidal plans without the full cooperation of hundreds of underlings who…

  • Useless Partisan Courts

    Useless Partisan Courts

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    by Bob Russell ©2021  (Aug. 6, 2021) — It is very apparent to anyone paying attention that courts are mostly useless.  The devildemocommiecrats ignore any court decision that goes against their tyrannical agenda while demanding that patriots follow their edicts to the letter.  Merrick Garland, the radical anti-American appointed as Attorney General by the morally…

  • The Thing Speaks For Itself

    The Thing Speaks For Itself

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    by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 25, 2020) — Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and faithful P&E readers everywhere, at the risk of stating the patently obvious: we are nearing a seminal and dangerous juncture in the history of the Republic.  We are, in essence, approaching a point of no return where the real possibility…

  • State Department Points to White House as Source of Misinformation on Benghazi Attack

    State Department Points to White House as Source of Misinformation on Benghazi Attack

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    WHY DID HILLARY SPEW THE PROPAGANDA IF SHE KNEW? by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 15, 2012) — A report in the UK Daily Mail states that Hillary Clinton has identified the White House as the source of the contention that the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was the result of anger…