🧵For decades UN/NGOs relied on what @NGOmonitor calls the “Halo Effect”—their reports accepted as gospel. Now, when flaws are exposed, they demand we ignore definitions, evidence & contradictions.
Never question the UN or big NGOs is the unspoken rule. The “Halo Effect,” the aura of credibility surrounding these organizations—means that their findings were virtually immune to fact-checking and often amplified by the media.
Oct 7 shattered the old rule of blind trust. Now journalists, researchers, technologists & citizens are dissecting UN/NGO claims with open-source data. The “Halo Effect” is cracking—exposing who wrote the reports, how data is twisted, what was ignored, & the agendas behind it.
The latest example: IPC’s “famine” declaration in Gaza City. Their own rules require evidence of mortality, malnutrition & lack of food access. Instead, they sidestepped standards, cherry-picked data & used shaky methods. The authors, anything but neutral.
@EFischberger exposed a key IPC author openly supporting terror targeting Israelis. @HillelNeuer showed he shares IRGC propaganda, pushes anti-US conspiracies & even excused Iran’s killing of 176 civilians. A nutcase who backs the Houthis & Iran’s regime.
@EFischberger made it all the way to the UN. The U.S. envoy slammed the IPC “famine” report and its author: “One of its key authors has a long record of bias against Israel, including justifying Houthi terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.”
Two days ago, MFA DG Eden Bar Tal demanded the IPC retract its Gaza report. He slammed it as forged: data was manipulated, contradictory evidence hidden, rules broken—all to push Hamas’ fake starvation narrative. “The report was fabricated for a purpose,” he said.
The Halo Effect lets groups like the IPC push reports unquestioned. Once scrutiny hits, it’s clear: they’re redefining terms like “genocide,” ignoring evidence, and dressing propaganda as science—expecting the world to accept their manipulated conclusions as gospel.
One example: someone claiming to have helped write IPC standards argued with me on X. He called my critique “dis/misinformation.” I responded with a full thread showing the IPC guide’s standards were ignored, cherry-picked, and even fabricated.
He tried to dismiss the concerns, claiming I hadn’t read the manual and that he helped write it. I flagged the key issue: no evidence of people dying of starvation, required to declare famine. He pointed to another version, same rule repeated, he tried to ignore the core problem
And then it got interesting. When he could no longer deny the requirement, he wanted me to “forget the definition of famine.”
The expectation is clear: we must ignore established definitions, forget the meaning of the word.
Throughout the conversation, he never addressed a single substantive point on the report’s many methodological issues. Instead, he kept repeating variations of:
“You don’t understand how it works.”
“Declaring famine is complicated.”
“I helped write the standards.”
When I flagged more issues he told me to Ignore the evidence! "If you question this, you’ll be walking into a trap.” A supposed author of global famine standards telling people to forget definitions & dismiss evidence.
The UN wants us to ignore facts. UNICEF Exec. Dir. Catherine Russell said “It’s kind of obscene… arguing about whether the methodology works. We know children are dying… I am tired of a discussion about… are we giving the right information or not?”
The expectation is clear, no one should ever question theses organizations. Rather than addressing the flaws, everyone—from those who establish the standards to top UN officials—wants us to forget definitions, ignore evidence, & accept their conclusions.
Bad data drives bad policy, fuels manipulated narratives, & erodes trust. Many are now exposing the lies: who wrote the report, how data was twisted, & which agendas it serves. The Halo Effect is crumbling—accuracy and credibility matter
🧵The UN’s Gaza “famine” claim isn’t science—it’s politics. The IPC’s own authors bent rules, cherry-picked data, ignored food imports, and limited famine to a 17 sq mile Gaza pocket. The Gaza famine declaration wasn’t just bad science — it was written by activists.
Let's start from what the headlines missed. The UN declared “famine” ONLY in GAZA CITY—17 sq miles—not all of Gaza. If famine at that scale truly existed, people could easily walk a few miles. Essentially the UN declared, there is famine in the living room, not in the kitchen”
The IPC didn’t lower the famine threshold as first reported—but it used a less reliable metric, MUAC, ignoring the rules for its use. MUAC requires multiple confirming indicators; here, the declaration rested on a single, flawed measure. But that's not all
🧵 @RepMTG used @megynkelly & @MegynKellyShow to spread lies: Israel-US aid, AIPAC a “foreign agent,” flag rulings misrepresented, Gaza “starvation” false, trips distorted. I respect Megyn as a journalist—she asks tough questions, but her platform was used to spread lies.
The myth: MTG claims US gives Israel a “blank check” of $3.8B/yr to freely fund weapons. False. Aid isn’t charity—it’s strategic: designed to strengthen Israel while preventing it from competing w/ US defense exports.
Unlike Jordan, Egypt & Lebanon, which get cash grants, Israel’s aid is mostly credit to buy US-made weapons. A small portion funds joint R&D, but patents remain US-owned. Israel can innovate in drones & missile defense, but must shelve projects that compete w/ US exports.
đź§µAid worker in Gaza filed a whistleblower complaint to the Inspector General of USAID, alleging "gross misconduct and misuse of humanitarian funds by the World Food Programme and other U.N. Agencies," according to a copy of the complaint obtained by Fox News Digital.
According to the complaint, senior IDF officials offered “any support necessary, including security protection and coordination” to WFP and OCHA. The response? A flat refusal to discuss coordination.
The whistleblower says: “This raises serious questions as to why WFP and OCHA were unprepared to discuss or accept the assistance offered by the IDF, thereby preventing aid from getting to the people of Gaza.”
đź§µUS watchdog SIGAR finds nearly $11 Billion in Afghan aid siphoned, corrupted & weaponized by the Taliban since 2021. It exposes how NGOs & the UN pay bribes, hire Taliban-linked businesses & divert funds as a chronic problem & more.
SIGAR finds US-funded Afghan aid largely fails to reach people—only 30–40% after taxes, fees, bribery & extortion. $10.9M+ went to Taliban-controlled entities in 2024 audit. Aid system is costly, complex, multi-layered, and riddled with corruption, creating new diversion points.
Under Taliban rule, they control which NGOs operate, force partnerships with Taliban-linked entities, manipulate currency for profit, extort aid workers, & impose taxes..
🧵On 7/29, the IPC said a “worst-case famine” was hitting Gaza, @Kredo0 from @FreeBeacon exposes how it did so by changing what famine actually means. This change applied only in Gaza to fit a political agenda. This isn’t science, it’s politics
Traditionally, IPC declares famine when 30% of kids show acute malnutrition by weight-for-height—a precise, global standard. The July Gaza report changed that for less accurate mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), cut the threshold to 15%, & dropped other usual criteria.
MUAC is a quick emergencies screening tool—not a replacement for full surveys in official famine declarations. Even IPC’s manual says MUAC isn’t a primary famine indicator. Yet for Gaza, IPC used MUAC data to claim famine in 3 cities, two with under 8% malnutrition
🧵On Friday, EU hailed its Media Freedom Act as a "win for press freedom & democracy." But hidden in the fine print: gov’t can spy on, censor, & arrest journalists if “public interest” calls for it—an undefined, shifting term. This law builds a media legal cage, not a free press.
On Friday, the new European Media Freedom Act went into effect. Ursula von der Leyen hailed it as a shield for journalists & a key pillar of democracy—a bright European answer to rising authoritarianism. But the law’s true impact goes far beyond these promises.
Read the fine print: The EMFA says journalists won’t be forced to reveal sources, spied on, or arrested—unless “Union or national law” allows it, justified by an “overriding public interest.” Translation: you’re free to report until the government decides otherwise.