Shareholder Discovery has sold its stake in GB "News". Bought for £20 million, it was offloaded for just £8M. The channel, where the average daily view is less than a minute, is currently being investigated by media regulator @Ofcom for its coverage of the COVID vaccine.
"Comments made during an interview with Dr Naomi Wolf about the coronavirus vaccine rollout raise potential issues... our investigation will consider whether this programme broke our rules designed to protect viewers from harmful material." - @Ofcom
This is the second @Ofcom investigation GB News is facing over its vaccine coverage.
The latest one relates to an interview with the author Naomi Wolf, in which she claimed women were being harmed by #Covid19 vaccines as part of an effort to “to destroy British civil society”.
#Ofcom said it would investigate whether the programme broke “rules designed to protect viewers from harmful material” after receiving more than 400 complaints from members of the public.
The interview with Wolf was originally broadcast on 4th October this year.
Dangerously irresponsible & quite possibly damaged conspiracy theorist Wolf compared doctors’ support for the vaccine rollout to the behaviour of the medical profession in Nazi Germany & described herself as the “last remaining independent journalist” willing to question this. 😬
Wolf was being interviewed on the Mark Steyn Show, which has repeatedly raised doubts over the safety of vaccines. Steyn’s claims that the jabs cause “every conceivable kind of damage” is typical of the ill-informed outrage-provoking style of the UK's very own Fox News wannabe.
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So right-wing Brextremist hedge-funder Paul Marshall bought out GB "News".
Alondra Nelson and Ami Fields-Meyer both served in the White House as technology policy advisers to President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, & now they are sounding the alarm about the AI Dangers of a Second Trump Presidency.
The Biden-Harris administration laid out a serious, rigorous, comprehensive theory of AI governance–offering a framework for its responsible stewarding to unlock its potential benefits AND address a range of issues, from job loss to data privacy to distrust of tech companies.
Americans who care about democracy, justice & the planet have to come together to prevent another Trump administration, which would attempt to introduce the regressive, antidemocratic & dangerously irresponsible policies laid out in the Heritage Foundation's #Project2025
Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the nominee.
Before outlining some essential information about Harris, I'll quickly summarise the process be for choosing the Democratic nominee as described by Newsweek.
In a statement emailed to Newsweek, Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Jaime Harrison said that the party would "undertake a transparent and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in November."
Professor of History & Public Policy at Duke University & author of the terrifying award-winning bestseller 'Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America', Nancy MacLean, recently discussed #Project2025.
Law professor & social critic Kimberlé Crenshaw interviewed MacLean about what the prescriptions in the Heritage Foundation’s #Project2025 mean for parents, public schools, & for multiracial democracy.
CRENSHAW: These wars on curricula are not new, of course; they go far back in our history. What folks might not know is that the Heritage Foundation, the main convenor of #Project2025, cut its teeth on curricular wars in the 1970s.
'The Republican blueprint for power contains the seeds of its own demise. It is not too late to stop the descent of the American political order into tyranny, oligarchy or anarchy', writes Timothy Snyder.
Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and former naval officer who is serving as the 19th United States secretary of transportation. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete".
Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant.
Hitler survived assassination attempts. We know what that led to. Reagan & Thatcher survived assassination attempts. They gave us neoliberalism. Trump survived. He's chosen JD Vance as his running mate. If elected, America will become a dystopian free-market kleptocracy.
The 0.01% is gearing up to all but destroy US democracy.
Leading the charge & donating tens of millions of dollars to Trump's campaign are Silicon Valley's libertarian Tech billionaire extremists, led by Peter Thiel & Elon Musk - two of the most dangerous men on earth.
What's unfolding right now is like something from a dystopian sci-fi novel.
Except it's not fiction - it's real.
And it's a fucking nightmare assault on truth, fairness, equality, minorities, women's right, the environment & humanity, which democracy will struggle to survive.