8/ Note that Project Veritas has never lost a lawsuit, but:
- ACORN: O'Keefe paid $100,000 to a former employee
- Senator Landrieu: O'Keefe sentenced to 3 years probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine
- Boudreau: PV paid Izzy Santa a five-figure settlement
9/ Also, note with Project Veritas:
- NPR: PV selective and deceptive editing
- Attempt to solicit voter fraud in 2014
- Received $10k donation from Trump foundation
- Attempted bribe to incite a riot at Trump's inauguration
10/ In 24 hours Trump has been stuffing loyalists in the most senior roles at DOD, including Kash Patel who was accused of being Trump's back channel to Ukraine.
11/ Mitch Mcconnell held meetings with both AG Barr and CIA Director Gina Haspel. Is she next in the firing line for Trump? Rumours too that FBI director Christopher Wray could also be fired.
12/ Mike Pompeo says on video that there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration. Nice words from a man who pushes for democracy across the world.
14/ “Baseless allegations of systematic deficiencies, notably by the incumbent president, including on election night, harm public trust in democratic institutions,” Michael Georg Link, leader of the short-term OSCE observer mission, said last week.
15/ "The White House has removed the head of the program that produces the federal government's most definitive scientific report on climate change."
16/ The Trump administration continues its legal and constitutional right to challenge the results of the election.
Nothing else to see here.
For those accusing me of bias attention-seeking, I am centre-right, conservative voting and not a fan of Biden. I have lost 500 followers this week and received one death threat including a picture of a mutilated dog.
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1/ PA supreme court decision to allow mail-in ballots 3 days after election day i.e. mail-in ballots received by Friday 6th Nov can be counted. Trump campaign asking US Supreme Court to intervene.
2/ The Supreme Court twice declined to overrule deadline, but several conservative justices indicated that they might be willing to revisit the case.
Late mail-in ballots are currently being segregated from other ballots pending the legal challenge.
3/ However, a number of conservative surrogates are questioning if this is happening.
PA secretary of state stated on Nov 4th Wednesday that there are only “hundreds” of such votes.
The fall in the quality of real investigative journalism has been harmed by the economics of production + the competition being rewarded for low-quality partisan baiting.
We're in a post-truth era.
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There is a high reward for spreading conspiracy on Twitter, particularly with right-wing voters.
There is a low time investment to credibility reward for fact-checking accusations:
- Facts spun
- Sources not trusted
- Ability to keep up with the speed of information
Trust has been eroded with right-wing voters due to the left bias of MSM and board control of social media giants.
Trump has perpetuated the problem with his FakeNews campaign which is baked in both truths and falsities. Confusion reigns and voters retreat to echo chambers.
Analysis of the US riots requires nuance:
- How another police murder sparked this
- Peaceful v violent protests
- Why violence happens
- Police engagement v batons/rubber bullets
- How MSM stoking flames
- Infiltration by groups such as Antifa
A big job for anyone who tries.
Looting is a great example, it is rightfully being condemned, but it is important to understand why it happens.
It happened in Hong Kong despite the world widely supporting those protests.
Why is the scale of looting in US riots so much higher?
1/ While the lens has been on the Chinese coverup re: coronavirus, I have been researching a similar coverup and misinformation from Iran.
Big thanks to @AlinejadMasih's for her excellent presentation for the @hrf's Covidcon.
This probably should go in a wiki, will need help.
2/ Former health minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi posted on Instagram on March 22nd that he had warned the Iranian Health Ministry of the dangers of novel coronavirus in late December.