1984 – Blazingcatfur

Facebook, Instagram Posts Flagged as False for Rejecting Biden’s Recession Wordplay

“The fact-checking industry has become a partisan arbiter of political disputes,”

Meta’s third-party fact-checkers have flagged as “false information” posts on Instagram and Facebook accusing the Biden administration of changing the definition of a recession in order to deny that the U.S. economy has entered one. This is yet another reminder that the project of purportedly independent fact-checking on social media is a highly partisan one, in which legitimately debatable opinions are passed off as objective truth.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 31, 2022•0•1984

DARPA wants to model how ‘disinformation’ flows from fringe to mainstream platforms

According to DARPA, “The discovery of pathways and patterns will move our understanding of information operations from today’s current focus on individual users, messages, memes, or campaigns to a higher level, structural and temporal understanding of how these operations unfold.”

In modeling the flow of information, the Pentagon’s research funding arm could potentially give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a powerful tool for its incoming “Disinformation Governance Board,” which critics are already calling the “Ministry of Truth.”

by Sarcasticat•May 16, 2022May 16, 2022•0•"Disinformation", "Surveillance Society", 1984

Your Afternoon Musical Interlude

The protest song edition:

For those who held the line:

I’ve been saving this song for when Justin is deposed or before he mishandles some cutlery and asks the fatal question: “Why can’t Mr. Fork and Mr. Electrical Outlet be friends and shake hands?”:

by Osumashi•February 19, 2022February 19, 2022•0•1984, Can a civilization commit suicide?, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Justin Trudeau Air Head, Justin Trudeau Useful Idiot, Music, The Left Are The New Fascists, Totalitarianism

Tech, Social Media, Cancel Culture Evoke Orwell’s ‘Memory Hole’

When Twitter and Facebook decided to ban President Donald Trump, censor the New York Post, and start erasing other people and institutions from their platforms, they started down a path which will have enormous consequences for them and for America.

by Sarcasticat•January 14, 2021January 14, 2021•0•1984, Censorship, Censorship on Social Media, facebook, facebook is evil, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump is literally Hitler!, Twitter, Twitter is Evil

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Orwell’s Dystopian Novel ‘1984’ Soars To Top Of Amazon’s List Of Best-Selling Books

Twitter has banned President Donald Trump. Google, Amazon, and Apple shut down Parler, a conservative social media site. No one knows what’s true or false anymore. And the language police are running rampant, with lawmakers on Capitol Hill going so far as to ban words like “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister.”

So, it makes perfect sense that Orwell’s famous book “1984” is once again the best-selling book on Amazon.

How long before it’s banned?

by Sarcasticat•January 12, 2021January 12, 2021•0•1984, Amazon is Evil