“Disinformation”

Ottawa’s billion-dollar housing pledges promising but not enough


Canada’s housing crisis heightened in 2020 and 2021, when families with median incomes faced an average house price that was as high as seven to nine times their annual income. Surging home prices and relatively stagnant income growth combine to make the dream of home ownership beyond the reach of most Canadians, especially young people, unless either house prices fall by half or earnings double.

The rental market is no more affordable. Renters spend on average more than 35 per cent of their incomes on rent. In tighter markets such as Toronto and Vancouver, rents could be as high as 45 per cent of income.

Housing unaffordability is a dire issue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadians Express Confidence in Ability to Spot Fake News Without Help From Lying Liberal Government

Canadians are confident when it comes to recognizing fake news online without help from the government, a survey shows, but they are not so sure when it comes to AI-generated content.

Results from federal focus groups found that “a number of participants express reservations about the government presenting itself as an ‘authority’ on disinformation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The great greenhouse gas numbers game

THERE is a move afoot in the western world which will permanently prevent anyone from having a new idea. It has been tried many times before, mostly successfully. It has been seen operating under the control of common-or-garden varieties of dictators, who proudly boast that 97 per cent of the population loves and agrees with them. This latest version is being disguised as a fully justifiable attempt to protect citizens from harm, the harm that comes from the viral spread of that enchantress Miss Disinformation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Disinformation-Peddling Media Had Multiple Meetings with German Government

The managing director of Correctiv, the self-proclaimed “independent investigative journalism network” that recently ran a disinformation piece against the AfD—falsely accusing the party of planning to deport millions of Germans with migrant backgrounds—met with officials from the federal government on numerous occasions, apparently to “exchange ideas” on what coverage is desirable.

Correctiv’s false reporting—deliberate or not—on what has come to be known as the “Potsdam Meeting” precipitated a wave of anti-AfD demonstrations across Germany and prompted calls for the left-liberal traffic coalition to initiate banning proceedings against the increasingly popular party.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", Germany, Germany - AfD party

The Buzz on ‘The Great Honey Bee Die-Off’

This classic case of false alarmism ties back to a single tech company.

The loss of bees puts the entire global food supply at risk, and because of this, the race is on to save them,” states a December tech newsletter. “Save the Bees reports that bee populations have decreased by more than 50% in the past 75 years, while human populations have increased by over 130%.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation"

Beware the WEF’s new misinformation panic

AI-powered lies and manipulation constitute the gravest threat to humanity. At least this is the dystopian scenario espoused by the collective wisdom of 1,500 experts surveyed in the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risks Report last week.

Unfortunately, such outbreaks of “elite panic” are a recurring phenomenon. Whenever the public sphere is expanded through new communications technology, the traditional gatekeepers fret about the dangers of allowing the general public — too fickle and unlearned — unmediated access to information. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", World Economic Forum

Elections Canada launches online disinformation tool to prepare voters for next federal election

Elections Canada is trying to insulate Canadian voters from false narratives and information during the next federal election by launching an online tool to help voters cut through misinformation and disinformation about the electoral process in Canada.

The ElectoFacts website, launched this week, provides factual information to debunk the most common misconceptions observed by Elections Canada officials in recent years.

“Building resilience against inaccurate information helps strengthen the overall health of democracy,” Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault said in a statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation"

Will The Guardians of The Narrative Win?

Much that is happening in the spectacle of America’s legal-political life today reminds me of some pages in Johan Huizinga’s great book Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture (1938). In a chapter on “Play and Law,” Huizinga distinguishes the unfolding of legal proceedings in advanced cultures, where strict adherence to process and abstract notions of right and wrong prevail, from the situation in more primitive cultures, where the ultimate criterion is victory. “Turning our eyes from the administration of justice and highly developed civilizations,” Huizinga writes, “to that which obtains in less advanced phases of culture, we see that the idea of right and wrong, the ethical-juridical conception, comes to be overshadowed by the idea of winning and losing, that is, the purely agonistic conception. It is not so much the abstract question of right and wrong that occupies the archaic mind as the very concrete question of winning or losing.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation"

EU Hits Musk With X Probe On Possible ‘Disinformation’

European Commissioner Thierry Breton announced an investigation into Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ social media platform X for failure to combat ‘illicit content and disinformation.’ This is the first major probe the EU has opened up on X since last year’s passing of a new law called the “Digital Services Act.”

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", European Union, Twitter, WTF?

Disinformation starts at the top — with America’s elites

The Javelin missiles making mincemeat out of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tanks in Ukraine work differently from old-fashioned antitank weapons.

Instead of flying straight at the tank and having to defeat the thick armor on the front and sides, they pop up into the air and come down from above, attacking the comparatively defenseless top, where the armor is much thinner.

That works well for tanks, whose defenses haven’t caught up with the new realities yet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", USA

New emails show DHS created Stanford ‘disinfo’ group that censored speech before 2020 election

New emails show officials at the Department of Homeland Security created a Stanford University “disinformation” group that censored Americans’ speech before the 2020 election, according to a House Judiciary Committee report exclusively obtained by The Post.

The House panel’s 103-page staff interim report says never-before-seen emails and internal communications were obtained from the group, known as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), and show how it worked with DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to flag, suppress and remove online speech in coordination with big tech companies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", USA, WTF?

Canada is picking up the political radicalization bug from the U.S. & That’s Bad Thing Says Report From Company That Hired Trudeau Pal Gerald Butts

Canada is picking up the political radicalization bug from the U.S., new report warns

A U.S.-based research group that specializes in gauging geopolitical risk says Canada is showing signs of the same political contagion and polarization that has afflicted American politics.

The warning is contained in Eurasia Group’s annual “Top Risk” report for the new year, released Tuesday.

While Canada does not make the consultancy’s “Top 10” in terms of geopolitical or instability risks, the group produced three standalone sub-reports on countries affected by worldwide political turbulence: Canada, Japan and Brazil.

This is pure propaganda. Junior is losing on every issue mentioned.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", Canada, WTF?

World Leaders Incite Riots Against U.S., Israel by Spreading Hamas Lies on Hospital … Trudeau among first to lie for Hamas

World leaders, journalists, and activists helped fuel anti-American riots around the Middle East Tuesday evening by spreading the false claim by the Palestinian terror group Hamas that an Israeli airstrike killed 500 Palestinian civilians at a hospital in Gaza.

As Breitbart News’ Frances Martel reported, mobs attacked U.S., United Nations, and Israeli embassies throughout the region…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "Oct 7 2023"

Opposition, disinfo experts push government to fight Russian propaganda in wake of Hunka incident

 

While Russia continues to blast Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for venerating a Nazi combatant in Parliament, Ottawa’s main website designed to fight Russian disinformation hasn’t been updated since the day before the incident.

During a visit to the House of Commons by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, the Speaker of the House led a standing ovation for 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, who had fought for Ukraine against the Russians in the Second World War, and was present at the event.

The Russians made Junior do it!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation"

Government That Lies About Basically Everything Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online ‘Disinformation’

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has launched a United Nations declaration that calls for action to protect what it calls “information integrity” and to tackle “disinformation.”

Ms. Joly launched the declaration jointly with the Netherlands’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Hanke Bruins Slot, during the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 20.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government