So let’s have a little look at the Right wing media feeding off its own ecosystem.

Here’s @TiceRichard claiming NET ZERO caused the Heathrow shut down, while sharing a Telegraph article that appears to back up his claim

Must be true then, right??

🧐you know the drill…

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My first port of call in these scenarios is always the web archive to see how a story changes over time…..

In this case we had three versions published by the Telegraph

📰when the news first broke
📰when more info was known
📰when there was an “update”

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Ok, we’re back for the follow up!

And I’m looking forward to some apologies and a bit of eating humble pie - although I won’t hold my breath! 🤷🏼‍♀️

And read on to find out the exclusive on who actually called the police, and why!🚨

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https://twitter.com/monkemma/status/1893712899006214620

When I highlighted that that headline had been hugely misleading, along with lots of support, I got a shed load of abuse and pushback.

So I’m going to respond to the key points people made and reveal what I’ve since discovered actually happened👍🏼

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Sigh…..😞

Another day, another wildly misleading Daily Mail headline.

I mean, it certainly would be headline worthy if police had turned up and accused her of committing a crime by writing innocent FB posts.

But that's not what happened…

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1/ Normally, I’d walk you through the article highlighting the issues, but in this case we’ll deal with the reality first and THEN walk through the spin

We need to scroll past 22 paragraphs, 5 photos, 5 adverts, & 6 promos for other DM stories, to get there though!

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Everyday comes another media story designed to make a particular group of people very cross.

Last week, The Times, GB News, and the usual Twitter accounts were fuming at the fact that the NHS hires “expensive” diversity staff 🙄

Let’s dig into the article, shall we?

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1/ They like to focus on the salaries of these roles.

But is £122K or £91K REALLY that high a salary for a senior management position in an organisation that employs 100,000’s of people and interacts with millions of people every day when they're at their most vulnerable?

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That is quite some headline @MailOnline…..

Does the poll “predict” that Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year?

I’m sure you know the answer already, but indulge me while a do a small 🧵looking at what the poll ACTUALLY shows!

1/17 Obviously there’s no link to the poll so we can only see what the DM wants to show us.

@DeltapollUK don’t have the data on their website yet.

So we’ll have to use this grainy image on the DM website (why not use a clear one? 🤔)

2/17

Another day, another @Telegraph headline designed to get the Right OUTRAGED at all the work shy, lazy, benefits scroungers

Bah Humbug and all that😡

The article is behind a paywall, so the headline will be all most people will read

Let’s take a look behind it…

🧵1/11 52.6% of people in the UK receive more in benefits than they contribute in taxes!

OMG😱

“52.6% of people are on benefits?! See, see, didn’t I always say the young/poor/woke/snowflakes were scroungers!”

👆🏼fictional Telegraph reader👆🏼🤪

Well, no. It’s not that at all!

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Nothing says legitimate organic Right Wing uprising in the UK like a meaningless petition that gets retweeted by a foreign billionaire with 200 million followers on the platform he controls.

But wait til you hear where the signatures are coming from!

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https://twitter.com/monkemma/status/1860662906255229395

This petition, calling for another general election in the UK, a mere 5 months after a stonking general election victory for Labour, has been “signed” by people in 141 countries🤔

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A quick lesson in the Google AI answer that pops up when you do a search.

ALWAYS click on the links to verify the answer!

A worked example for you 👍🏻

I asked: does ITV get money from TV license

AI overview: Yes, it receives money from the TV license fee

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1/9 So I clicked on the 🔗 icon to find out what sources led to that conclusion.

There were 3 - all good, respected, official sources.

Fab, it must be correct, then?🤷‍♀️

Thought I’d better double check what each source actually showed.

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Explain this to me like I’m a child 🙏🏼

How is adding £2 to the cost of a flight going to lead to a fall of 10% in passenger numbers??

Oh wait……

Nevermind, just found a fascinating article that might shine a light on this🧐

#Ryanair

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🧵 About 6 weeks ago Ryanair filed disappointing Q1 and Q2 results, following a 46% drop in profits during the summer.

Ryanair blamed “frugal” consumers amid high inflation and interest rates.

So their plan?

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It seems the British Press are losing their minds about 100 Labour ‘activists’ going to USA to help the Democrats campaign

"FOREIGN Election Interference" they shriek

Is it a real story?

Might there be any ACTUAL election interference that is a little more significant?
🧵1/26 Let’s take a look at some of the big names who have openly criticised Labour for some of their campaigners helping the Democrats.

First up we have Farage - he's very indignant about this story 👇

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https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1847213823188459919

I see we’re all upset about paintings again 🙄

Urgh! The comments under the posts about this are absurd.

“Starmer hates Britain” they all bleat in unison.

But the story behind the headline is more interesting…..🧐

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1/10 The web archive page shows the Telegraph posted this story more than once with verrry different content!

The original article “revealed” the two paintings had been taken down and replaced by paintings by an artist who “focuses on strong and courageous women” 😱

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Hmmm…… really?

Does that seem plausible?

Let’s take a look, shall we?

🧵1/9 So, a study has been done on 928 young Dutch adults to try and replicate a previous study looking at brain scans and political ideologies.

Did it find that “conservatives were more compassionate”?

Well, no. 🤷‍♀️

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OMG 😱

Farage’s party came second in 120 constituencies

They got 12.6% of the votes - 3rd highest vote share

They got 2 MPs

While the winning party only got 36.9%

Oh no, wait a sec - that was UKIP in 2015!

#GeneralElection2024

1/5 This time his party came second in just 98 seats

Got 14.3% of the votes

Got 4 MPs

So:

2 extra MPs, an extra 1.7% of the vote share and came second in 22 fewer seats.

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Oh this is very funny!

So Reform candidates, in what will be no surprise to anyone, seem to have a penchant for the BNP and Nazis….

And yes, those are 2 SEPARATE candidates👇🏼🙄

1/6 The First Lady of Reform claims it’s not their fault - how could they possibly vet all the candidates? They’re only a humble little Grass roots party, ahem, sorry, I mean Limited company….

Despite claiming 10K’s have been paying them £25 each 🤔

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Oh, I see we’re revisiting the old classics.🙄

“Let’s cut down on managers in the NHS”

Why is this such a popular attack line?

Just the smallest amount of critical thinking will show what a nonsensical idea this is….

A little🧵 for you!

1/8 NHS managers make up around 3% of the workforce.

Thats it.

They make up around 11% in the overall British economy.

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I see lots of Right wingers are using places like Denmark as a shining beacon of why National service is great.

It’s funny, cos they don’t ever seem to champion all the OTHER aspects of life for young Danes.

Little 🧵

1/12 Free education.

Thats free education to whatever level you chose to go to, in whatever area you want to study

For as many years as you want to study

And not just free education - you get paid a grant to cover your living expenses, while you study.

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Congratulations to the Telegraph for managing to find a private school that’s closing and attempting to to pin it on Labour🙄

But is it true that it’s closing under a Tory government because of a Labour policy that hasn’t happened yet?

Here’s a little 🧵

You decide!

1/11 Firstly, my heart goes out to the pupils, teachers and parents of Alton School. It must be awful to be part of a school that has to close down - particularly those sitting exams next year. 💔

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Imagine being the Prime Minister of a country and celebrating the decline of what can be considered one of Britain’s greatest exports - Education. 🙄

Sunak posting one of his stupid tweets has made me cross, so here comes quick(ish) thread! 🧵

1/16 UK Universities have attracted the world’s elite for decades, if not centuries!

The UK is the second most popular destination for international students after the USA.

Despite comprising only 0.84% of the worlds population, we have 4 of the top universities in the World

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This is the message everyone should be taking home from today’s despicable announcement.

The number of people of working age with a health condition or a disability is going up.

And not because they’ve all suddenly become work-shy scroungers🙄

Long (sorry!) 🧵

1/25 Shall we take a look at THAT rather than pretend the problem is that too many “undeserving” people are claiming long term sick benefits?

Maybe if those issues started to be addressed, some of these people could actually get better and get back to work🤷‍♀️

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The more I see this, the worse it becomes!

First the tweet itself - I addressed that last night 👇🏼

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https://x.com/monkemma/status/1775991829848035622?s=46&t=XMHcspxq5q2fqUPd0qxe6Q

Next the claim: 2nd most powerful country?!

I’ve found 2 world rankings for power:

We rank 5th in both

1st US
2nd China
3rd Russia
4th Germany or India depending on the study
5th UK

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Talking down our country you say?

Let’s take a look at the people who’ve actually been talking down our country and our great British institutions….

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1/9 How did Cleverly describe Stockton, again?

Oh yes - a sh*t hole.

Nice 🙄

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