Masthash

#lies

Inside the Red Head's Head
20 hours ago

Our society is broken beyond repair.

I just saw a TV commercial with the opening line, “I needed more from my anti-depressant.”

Really, what the fuck is wrong with us? We as a society are disgusting.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/28/what-is-wrong-with-us/

#bigPharma #commercials #disgusting #drugCompanies #EVIL #greed #lies #manipulation #medicalAdvertising #Television

Poetry News
23 hours ago

Oh how we stand aghast
For Kevin McCarthy's past
A deep ignorance of history
His words, so preposterous and full of glee
In disrespect for our great land
He's revealed a ignorance grand
For ours is a nation
That oft takes possession
And to say it has not
Shows his lot
#AmericanHistory #McCarthy #Lies

#americanhistory #mccarthy #lies #ode #poetry

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kevin-mcarthy-video-american-war-history-rcna126816

Rasta
3 days ago

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” — George Orwell, 1984 #Quote #Prediction

From Niagara Falls to Texas to Gaza, a horrifying look into the abyss of a post-truth future
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/free-press-right-wing-authoritarianism-20231126.html #NiagraFalls #Propaganda #GeorgeOrwell #FoxPropaganda #Lies #Authoritarianism #RainbowBridge #FakeNews

NY car crash falsely propagandized as "a terror attack" symbolized our increasingly #Orwellian post-truth world.

@michaelslade @georgetakei Long ago, media organizations should have refused #Trump live air time, given his record of frequent, proven #lies. He should have lost the privilege of being broadcast without real-time fact checking.

#Trump_lies #TrumpLies #DonaldTrumpLifetimeOfLies

News18 India
4 days ago

When the kidnappers made the ransom call to the Dushyant family in order to demand Rs 10 lakh, Priya and her accomplices realised that the 'Delhi businessman' was not as rich as he claimed to be, and had put up a fake identity all this time
#Murder #Lies #Fake #Got #OldMan #Jaipur
https://www.news18.com/india/tinder-murder-jaipur-priya-seth-killed-date-dushyant-sharma-extortion-kidnapping-fake-identity-8677009.html

Mark
5 days ago

Using Wolfram Alpha is so much more reliable than using Bing or ChatGPT for science or engineering calculations or reference.

And one of the biggest advantages is that it tells you if it doesn’t understand or can’t do it, whereas the others happily fake it or “lie”.

Never hire an employee like that BTW. “I don’t know” you can work with.

#AI #lies

Rasta
5 days ago

Cult Christmas Music in this house is killing me.
My wife loves Hallmark Christmas Movies.

I could just throw up. I've put on brown noise, and went to lay on the sofa, to drown it out.

I can't get away from that annoying childish fantasy that older Christ Child, in a red suit, is coming soon, with toys he didn't buy.

Can't wait for Easter, when the Bunny Disciple will crucify Santa and put him out of his misery

I'm disappointed by false faith.
#Christmas #Cult #Santa #Fake #Lies #Heathen

The Santa Christ on a cross.

Consultant cited by airport authority says he never recommended cutting entire forest | CBC News https://bit.ly/47LamtR #ottpoli #HuntClubForest #Ottawa #Lies #Clearcutting #OttawaInternationalAirport #OIAA #Fail #EicFail #OttawaAirport #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli

Iraq war veteran Mike Prysner confronting George W. Bush is how so many of us are feeling right now.

#Lies
#GovernmentLies

Teixi
1 week ago

» AI does not exist !

There's no decision-making process !
It's just identifying #patterns !
..
But also they just spit out #lies !

#AI does not tell the #truth !
There's no #fidelity !
..
AI is built on #datasets that are biased !

As a result the #decisions made by #AI are #biased !

Therefore it is #unethical to use AI to make decisions !

You need an expert checking the decision !

It is a #tool you can use,
but it should not be used by itself ! «

@acollierastro

https://youtu.be/EUrOxh_0leE?t=1750s

» AI doesn't exist!

There's no decision-making process!

It's just identifying #patterns !
..
But also they just spit out #lies !

#AI does not tell the #truth !

There's no #fidelity !
...
AI is built on #datasets that are biased !

As a result the #decisions made by #AI are #biased !

Therefore it is #unethical to use AI to make decisions !

You need an expert checking the decision !

It is a #tool you can use, 
but it should not be used by itself ! «

@acollierastro 

https://youtu.be/EUrOxh_0leE?t=1750s
DreambeastPoems
1 week ago

My new poem updated: "Lie Tells Truth." #poetry #poetrycommunity #poems #lies #truth #fake

Lie Tells Truth

Lie said to Truth:
Stop wasting your time
for who cares today
what’s yours or what’s mine

Truth said to Lie:
Perhaps I give in
for these days it seems
that seldom I win

Lie said to truth:
Who cares, we are twins
where one of us ends
the other begins

Truth said to lie:
But my heavy heart
still longs for the days
they could tell us apart

Mark Bird
W_Dräger 🦉
1 week ago

Eating this 2 am junk food will help my #migraine and other #lies

Wisdom in Space
1 week ago

Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.
-- Anonymous

#Quotes #Anonymous #Argument #Lies

#Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

photo by richard rathe
Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

This #exposes a lot of #IDF & #Likud #propaganda #lies.

#MaxBlumenthal of #TheGrayzone joins The #ChrisHedges Report for an in-depth look.

#Testimony from #survivors of #AlAqsaFlood, combined with the #documented past actions of #Israel’s armed forces against captured soldiers & civilians, raise questions about what really caused the high #Israeli #DeathToll.

Video: https://youtu.be/d0gECjlpXF8?si=7q3wPl0VgDLCk1Oj

https://therealnews.com/did-israels-military-kill-its-own-civilians-on-oct-7

#FactsOverFiction #Investigation #ExposeLies #FightDisinformation #Ceasefire

David Bloomberg
1 week ago

Nathan was surprised that people would LIE to him on Survivor UK. Can you imagine?! Apparently he couldn’t. Welcome to Survivor! 🙄 3rd TikTok today: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8U4RNCa/

You can also see Nathan finally realizing he’s playing Survivor (UK) as a YouTube Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/C08iFhl0VJM?si=uKmjRVQXBGNo8S7v

Or on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz16TrNx_Wi/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

#SurvivorUK #Survivor #RealityTV #WhyXLost #TV #TVShow #RHAP #PlayTheGame #Lies #UK #UKTV #Entertainment

Fox News and others lied about the 2020 #election being stolen. Is cable news broken?

“… what you see in these emails and text messages is a tug of war between what is true and what these hosts and executives want to be true…. #Lies oftentimes were the prevailing narrative on Fox. There was a remarkable message from Suzanne Scott, the CEO of #Fox News Media saying, the fact checking of #Trump on air has to stop. It's bad for business.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/17/the-excerpt-podcast-brian-stelter-details-new-book-network-of-lies/71628164007/

GW
2 weeks ago

#Fraud, #Lies, #Exploitation and Eugenic Fantasies

The multibillion-dollar Effective Altruism movement makes rich people feel good about being rich — to hell with the bad publicity

Effective Altruists call this “longtermism,” an idea built around a vision of the future in which we reengineer humanity, colonize space, plunder the vast resources of the cosmos and ultimately maximize the total amount of “value” in the universe by creating huge numbers of “digital people”

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-altruism-is-a-welter-of-fraud-lies-exploitation-and-eugenic-fantasies/

The elites
Dr. Steve Thompson
2 weeks ago

"Stefanik declares ‘victory’ after New York court lifts ‘unconstitutional’ gag order against Trump"

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4314282-stefanik-declares-victory-new-york-court-lifts-trump-gag-order/

“If Democrats can do this to a billionaire, former President, and leading presidential candidate, just imagine what they can do to the rest of us,” her statement said. “That’s why I filed my ethics complaint against Judge Engoron, and I will continue to fight for all New Yorkers.”

"All New Yorkers except, uh, Democrats...

#ethics #lies #hypocrisy #Trumo #Stefanik #MAGA

Wisdom in Space
2 weeks ago

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

#Quotes #MarkTwain #Lies #Truth

#Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

photo by richard rathe
Nonilex
2 weeks ago

#Santos says he won’t seek reelection after release of #ethics report

House investigators found “substantial evidence” that Rep. #GeorgeSantos (R-N.Y.) knowingly violated a litany of ethics & #criminal laws, according to a #House Ethics Committee report released Thursday that prompted Santos to declare he would not seek reelection next year.

#Republicans #GOP #Corruption #fraud #lies #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/16/george-santos-ethics-committee-report/

doctorambient
2 weeks ago

Well, I suppose we've reached the end game of disinformation and political extremism.

We've Overton-ed ourselves into a situation where (much of) the professional media, and most on social media, can't even acknowledge the reality of what's happening in front of them.

America 1776-2024.

Eh, we had a good run.

#uspol #politics #overtonwindow #lies #conservatives #bullshit #endlessLiesWork

"Meta Officially Accepts Blood Money to Promote the Big Lie" says Gizmodo's Thomas Germain.

https://gizmodo.com/meta-election-denial-ads-trump-2024-1851024909

Apparently social media giants have decided that #misinformation is fine if you pay.

#lies #fakenews #meta #birdsite #YouTube #Facebook

@artemesia @GottaLaff

One could argue that given the blatant #lies #Santos told about himself and his background, the voters of his district elected him under false pretenses, and are entitled to a do-over election soon, well before November 2024.

#GeorgeSantos #SantosLiar #SantosLied #SantosIsAFraud #RepublicanParty #RepublicanLies

@georgetakei Someone also needs to *resign*, after getting elected based on outrageous #lies.

#GeorgeSantosScandal #George_Santos_scam #Republicans #RepublicanParty

Alaska Native News
2 weeks ago

Warnings Grow That US Media Again Failing to Accurately Cover Trump's Fascist Threat
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"If it wasn't already clear, our democracy is in very serious danger."

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is the GOP front-runner for 2024, setting up an expected rematch with Democratic President...
https://alaska-native-news.com/warnings-grow-that-us-media-again-failing-to-accurately-cover-trumps-fascist-threat/70846/
#trump #nazism #president #election #lies #gop #journalists #extremism

Dr. Steve Thompson
3 weeks ago

A "false claim" is a lie. Why not save a syllable and just call it what it is? It's a lie.

"Trump’s False Claim That U.S. Military Moving to Electric Tanks"

https://www.factcheck.org/2023/11/trumps-false-claim-that-u-s-military-moving-to-electric-tanks/

"Former President Donald Trump has a new talking point in his rally speeches, claiming that the Biden administration is moving the military to all-electric-powered tanks.

It’s also false. The military currently has no plans for all-electric tanks."

#GOP #Trump #lies

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ
3 weeks ago

Danielle Smith lied about reason for renewables pause: new documents | The Narwhal https://bit.ly/3SA4iA6 #ableg #RenewableEnergy #Alberta #Renewables #Energy #DanielleSmith #Fail #EpicFail #Lies #abpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli

Laffy
3 weeks ago

11-7-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Tues with GottaLaff Plus Nicole Brings Receipts
 
View on Zencastr

 

It's one of those Tuesdays when @GottaLaff is here. That's where you'll find her live "tooting" events like yesterday's historic under-oath testimony in a multi-million dollar fraud suit for which TFG has already be
https://nicolesandler.com/11-7-23/
#LaffysPlace #NicolesBlog #antisemitism #gaza #GottaLaff #Hamas #Israel #lies #terrorism #Tlaib #TrumpTestimony

@Grandalf Those spinning these #lies know they're lying and sadly that #disinfo is covered as "#FreeSpeech" or rather #ConsequenceFreeSpeech...

petersuber
4 weeks ago

In his new book #MarkMeadows repeated the #Trump #lies about the 2020 election. Then he testified under oath that the election was not stolen. Now the publisher (#AllSeasonsPress) is suing him for millions in lost profits and damage to its reputation.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-meadows-publisher-sues-for-millions-over-election-lies-in-book

PS: This is a story about #publishing #ethics. The pub knew or should have known that Meadows lied in the book, and it planned to profit from those lies. Now it's saying it only wanted to publish sincere lies.

#USPolitics

Morpheus Being
4 weeks ago

#auspol #lies

The recent open letter to the prime minister and parliamentarians broke the week-long silence from Indigenous leaders after the country rejected the proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament. The letter emphasised the damage caused by the “lies in political advertising and communication” prevalent in the recent campaign.

https://theconversation.com/regulating-political-misinformation-isnt-easy-but-its-necessary-to-protect-democracy-216537

Alexf24
4 weeks ago

Alina Habba Offers Bizarre Excuse For Why She's Such A Bad Lawyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r4llFHzCoc

#Law #Lies #Crime #Incompetence #MAGA

Alexf24
1 month ago

Traditional family values

#Lies #MAGA #Trump

Image of Tiffany Trump's wedding, with Tiffany, Marla Maples, Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump

Caption says:

"Traditional family values. Standing between your mon and the chick your dad cheated on your mom with, who is standing next to your half-sister, whose mom your dad cheated on with your mom"
Alexf24
1 month ago

Trump Has Online Panic Attack After Judge Considers Additional Punishments Against Him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9LhqeDLqM

#Law #Crime #Lies #Trump

Zhi Zhu 🕸️
1 month ago

@dangillmor

"The analysts noted that overall shrink — merchandise losses due to external and internal theft, damaged products, inventory mismanagement and other errors — makes up just 1.5% to 2% of retailers’ sales. That percentage has remained steady for years, despite retailers sounding the alarm more than ever about theft."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/business/crime-spree-retailers-are-actually-overstating-the-extent-of-theft-report-says/index.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Crime #RetailStores #Lies #Disinformation #USA #News

Text from article:
 Debating over shrinkage

The analysts noted that overall shrink — merchandise losses due to external and internal theft, damaged products, inventory mismanagement and other errors — makes up just 1.5% to 2% of retailers’ sales. That percentage has remained steady for years, despite retailers sounding the alarm more than ever about theft.

The National Retail Federation said that retailers’ losses, known as shrink, increased 19% last year to $112 billion, based on a survey of 177 retailers. But shrink as a percentage of sales fell during the height of the pandemic as stores temporarily closed and grew in 2022 as stores re-opened.

This hit to profits is relatively small and fleeting — not reason enough alone to close stores according to the analysts. At nine major retailers that have increasingly cited the rising impact of theft, shrink as a percentage of sales increased just 0.4% in 2022, they found.
Greenbirder
1 month ago
John Refior
1 month ago

"'I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets, based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected,' Cohen testified, saying that he and former #Trump Organization finance chief #AllenWeisselberg labored 'to reverse-engineer the various different asset classes, increase those assets, in order to achieve a number that Mr. Trump had tasked us.'"
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-letitia-james-michael-cohen-fraud-new-york-8e49619e3f5ebb6931e6947c4dabda87

#LetitiaJames #MichaelCohen #fraud #lies #law

Alexf24
1 month ago

Ivanka Trump Trying To Weasel Out Of Testifying Against Her Family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0OIfF1690

#Law #Fraud #Lies #Taxes #MAGA #GWP #GOP

Magpieblog
1 month ago

Just in case you were wondering.

#Trump #lies #HonkingBigLies #Politifact

Pie chart showing Politifact's Truth-O-Meter ratings of over 900 statements made by Donald Trump. Over 75% are rated Mostly False, False, or Pants On Fire.
DoomsdaysCW
1 month ago

I guess they must have worked for #TEPCO in the past? 😏

Two Men Plead Guilty to Falsifying Documents Related to Testing of Equipment at #NuclearPowerPlants

by Indira Patel October 18, 2023

"Two men pleaded guilty today for their roles in creating false calibration certificates in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (#NRC).

"According to court documents, Miguel Marcial Amaro, 56, of Newark, Delaware, and Martin Ramos, 52, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, worked for a company that provided acoustic emissions (AE) testing to nuclear power plants to detect structural defects in the plant’s equipment. Following the testing, Marcial and Ramos helped create and transmit final testing reports to the owners of the plants which, among other things, contained calibration certificates for the equipment used.

"Between 2010 and 2021, Marcial was responsible for ensuring that the company’s AE testing equipment was calibrated annually; Ramos worked under Marcial as an engineer. The two men created numerous false calibration certificates for AE testing equipment, and 15 of these false certificates were sent a total of 29 times to nuclear plant owners as part of final testing reports required by the NRC. The falsified calibration certificates were discovered in 2021 during an external audit."

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/10/18/two-men-plead-guilty-to-falsifying-documents-related-to-testing-of-equipment-at-nuclear-power-plants/

#NuclearPower #Corruption & #Lies!
#NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart

Alexf24
1 month ago

Jack Smith Set A Brilliant Trap For Trump That Will Cripple His Legal Defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZOP3UQvB0

#Law #Crime #JackSmith #DonaldTrump #Lies #MAGA #GQP #GOP #Politics

Nando161
1 month ago

"my coworkers, all of whom are white Christian women, said today that they think #ANYONE of #Palestinian descent should be deported to #Gaza and then have bombs dropped on them.

They don’t know I’m Palestinian. I’m fucking terrified. We don’t have HR. I can’t lose my job. It’s crazy to me that they can spout #genocidal bullshit but if I so much as mention my ethnicity they may turn on me and hate me.

I’m a patient care coordinator at a pulmonary practice. All I want to do is make sure my patients get the care they need and deserve. I’m the only care coordinator in my office. I’m great at my job. But it was so hard to focus today knowing that if my coworkers knew about one of the biggest aspects of my identity - one of the things about myself about which I am the most proud - they would stop seeing me as a #person.

Fuck off with the bothsidesism. With the whataboutism. This is what the mass of #propaganda and #lies and anti-Arabism being spread in the #media do. And I’m terrified."

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/731861851454963712?source=share

pro time theft
1 month ago

"The pandemic is not over. Basically everything you have been led to believe about the virus is a lie. COVID is more dangerous, more transmissible, and more out of control than everyone in power is telling you. We are not back to normal. We are in freefall."

The rich assholes are just looking out for themselves. And you should too.

EVERYONE needs to know what's in this article. It's long, but it is FASCINATING, SO well written, and is a MUST. READ.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lizwhatsherface/p/the-pandemic-isnt-over

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID #RichAssholes #CDC #government #lies #lying #science #EatTheRich #pandemic #news #COVID19 #TLDR

Richard Rathe
1 month ago

@arstechnica

Very #Orwellian to have a symbol of #Trust (the "verified" account) become the vector for #Betrayal and #Lies. Dump #Xitter, Join #Mastodon!

Alexf24
1 month ago
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
1 month ago

@longreads

Why do our brains believe lies?

"the more we see something repeated, the more likely we are to believe it to be true.”

Thread about the “Illusory Truth Effect” and why it is so important NOT to repeat lies on social media (or elsewhere), even with the intention of debunking them.

https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/109530716627287778

#Propaganda #Disinformation #Misinformation #Lies #Journalism #SocialMedia #News #Media

Screen shot of a Mastodon post.

Text:
Why do our brains believe lies? 

"the more we see something repeated, the more likely we are to believe it to be true. 

This “illusory truth effect” arises because we use familiarity and ease of understanding as a shorthand for truth; the more something is repeated, the more familiar and fluent it feels whether it is misinformation or fact."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/11/03/misinformation-brain-beliefs/

#Propaganda #Disinformation #Misinformation 
#Lies #FakeNews #USPolitics #News
Crow 🍉
1 month ago

For anyone who's new. #Israel #lies #disinformation

🧡Karen a woke Karen 🧡
1 month ago

@DemocracyMattersALot #liars and the tweet with film allegedly showing the Hamas rocket on the hospital deleted as the timings didn't match. #lies #warcrimes
https://twitter.com/omarsuleiman504/status/1714372463398670695?t=QtSTki3TumJfanMTZGyShA&s=19

GW
1 month ago

Texas Sheriff Hasn’t Forgotten About Ron DeSantis’s “Unlawful” Anti-migrant Stunt

Javier Salazar said he is investigating a “covert criminal operation” in which 50 migrants were “exploited” with the false promise of housing and employment.

plane charted by the DeSantis administration. “They lied to them,” he said—“they” being the operatives hired by the governor’s office to convince dozens of migrants to fly to the Massachusetts island.

#desantis #gop #lies

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/texas-sheriff-hasnt-forgotten-about-ron-desantis-migrant-stunt

The world in 2025 as seen from 1975: part 1/5

"If humans pass their cosmic exam as local universe problem solvers and continue on the planet into the twenty-first century, there will be no thoughts whatsoever of earning a living. There will be no thoughts of, or even such words as #business #competition, #money, or #lies for such phenomena will be historically extinct. Such words as #politics, #war, #weapons, #debt will be only of historical significance."

🤣
https://archive.org/download/coevolutionquart00unse_2/coevolutionquart00unse_2.pdf

McWabbit🐰
1 month ago

I, pessimist, don't trust exit polls.

In the coming days we'll truly know if #Poland have reelected #PiS or not.
#Conservatives are destroying the world we live in. Yet recently win most #elections in democracies, doubling down on killing our #planet
Take away basic #humanrights for #women, #LHBT and #minorities Taking over #media and spreading #lies and #hate.

What will be left of humankind is a dystopia where oligarchs rule from their safe and clean #Elysium over slaves surviving in slums.

Nonilex
2 months ago

From Forbes:

Under questioning, #Weisselberg acknowledged that the 30k-sq-ft figure was wrong. He tried to suggest, however, that he had little to do w/the bogus calculation, batting away a series of questions about the financial docs & discussions w/Forbes, which has been valuing #Trump’s fortune since 1982. “I never focused on the triplex, to be honest w/you,” Weisselberg said. “It was almost de minimis relative to his net worth, so I really didn’t focus on it.”

#Fraud #law #lies #corruption

Pat
2 months ago

@robsonfletcher

#Abpoli #Cdnpoli #Energy #Lies

Just the usual Alberta Govt lie by omission, dishonest propaganda, for the brain dead

beSpacific
2 months ago

#CBS has #sifted through over 1,000 videos of #IsraelHamas #war and only 10% are usable, president and CEO of #CBSNews Wendy McMahon told Axios' Sara Fischer. Why it matters: The Hamas attack in Israel shows how #deepfakes and #misinformation will flow into #newsrooms "at a level of sophistication that will be staggering," McMahon said onstage in New York today. https://www.axios.com/2023/10/12/mcmahon-misinformation-cbs-deep-fakes-bfd #misinformation #lies #facts #journalism #news #socialmedia

Greg Dance
2 months ago

@fkamiah17

The same is true for how Russia makes war against Ukraine & its troll farms spew blizzards of lies & disinfo to ‘explain’ why it’s supposed to be ‘correcting a wrong’ which it calls nazism in Ukraine!

Zelenskyy appears to support Israel’s war crimes against Palestine, yet sought & got an ICC arrest warrant for Putin doing the same against his nation!

#lies #hypocracy #politics

Zhi Zhu 🕸️
2 months ago

@RollingStone

Repetition cannot create TRUTH,
but repetition can create BELIEF.

Repeating lies, even to debunk them, can convince more people to believe the lies.

That's why Trump & GOP keep repeating known lies
& why it's BAD for others to repeat those lies (especially in headlines or as the only text on #SocialMedia ).

Repeat something often enough, & even people who *know* better will start to doubt reality & believe the lies.

#Journalism #Journalists #Press
#Lies #FactChecks #News

Meme image of a "Daily News" newspaper

Headline:
REPETITION CANNOT CREATE TRUTH, BUT REPETITION CAN CREATE BELIEF.

Photo of Trump in front of microphones on left

Text on right:
That's why Trump & the GOP keep repeating known lies.

Repeat something often enough, and even people who *know™ better will start to doubt reality and believe the lies.

Repetition cannot create TRUTH,
but repetition can create BELIEF.

That's why it's dangerous to repeat lies. Repeating lies, even to debunk them, can convince more people to believe the lies, unless you state the truth FIRST and REPEAT THE TRUTH TWICE AS OFTEN as you repeat the lies.

Repetition cannot create TRUTH, 
but repetition can create BELIEF.

watermark: ZmemeZ

"It’s sickening to see that they couldn’t have waited even one day before contemptuously condemning Biden. With all their empty talk of standing by the Jewish homeland, their divisive words and actions have weakened the American response and thereby undermined Israel at a time when it needs a united ally."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Republicans #Israel #lies #NationalSecurity
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https://america.substack.com/p/the-need-for-humanity

"During a Fox News hit Saturday, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel reacted to Hamas’s attack on Israel by calling it a 'great opportunity' for Republican candidates. Her comments were widely panned as ghoulish, but she wasn’t totally wrong — it’s proven to be an opportunity for Republicans to demonstrate anew that there is no bottom."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Republicans #Israel #Hamas #lies
/1

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/hamas-attack-israel-republican-responses-lies

Zhi Zhu 🕸️
2 months ago

@RollingStone

Repetition cannot create TRUTH,
but repetition can create BELIEF.

Repeating lies, even to debunk them, can convince more people to believe the lies.

That's why Trump & GOP keep repeating known lies
& why it's BAD for others to repeat those lies (especially in headlines or as the only text on #SocialMedia ).

Repeat something often enough, & even people who *know* better will start to doubt reality & believe the lies.

#Journalism #Journalists
#Lies #FactChecks #News

Meme image of a "Daily News" newspaper

Headline:
REPETITION CANNOT CREATE TRUTH, BUT REPETITION CAN CREATE BELIEF.

Photo of Trump in front of microphones on left

Text on right:
That's why Trump & the GOP keep repeating known lies.

Repeat something often enough, and even people who *know™ better will start to doubt reality and believe the lies.

Repetition cannot create TRUTH,
but repetition can create BELIEF.

That's why it's dangerous to repeat lies. Repeating lies, even to debunk them, can convince more people to believe the lies, unless you state the truth FIRST and REPEAT THE TRUTH TWICE AS OFTEN as you repeat the lies.

Repetition cannot create TRUTH, 
but repetition can create BELIEF.

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Uwe B
2 months ago

@TheConversationUS Unfortunately, #TheConversation US is not absolutely trustworthy. In the context of "trustworthy" means "not absolute" but it is not. There are always again articles reflecting the #propaganda lies people there have been #socialized with more than the #facts. #Falsifications sometimes occur then. And as always, there is great resistance to viewing traditional #life #lies as such. This is particularly bad when it comes to #aggressors such as #Russia, #Turkey or #Azerbaijan.

Bwahahaha! New York Times "journalist" caught in a lie. Shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

(From BlueSky)

#USA #NewYorkTimes #Lies

David Brooks, New York Times reporter, claiming a burger-and-chips meal – shown with a double scotch – cost him $78 at Newark airport.

The inbuilt fact-finding part of BlueSky found that meal really costs $17.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
2 months ago

@georgetakei

"There is nothing in journalistic standards that says you have to give a platform for someone to spread lies, even if they are a senator or representative (or even the [ex-]president)...

We do not need to reward bad behavior with airtime...

If there are no consequences, how will we teach that this behavior is reprehensible?"
~Dan Rather
https://steady.substack.com/p/do-republicans-believe-in-democracy

#Journalism #Journalists #Trump #GOP #Lies #BigLie #USPolitics #USA

Text from article:
Let’s be clear about something else. There is nothing in journalistic standards that says you have to give a platform for someone to spread lies, even if they are a senator or representative (or even the president). In live interviews, even if one attempts to fact-check, lies are still heard by millions of viewers. If someone is spreading the Big Lie do they deserve to be on television? We do not need to reward bad behavior with airtime. We need to cut off the oxygen to the fire before it spreads and destroys our democracy further. If there are no consequences, how will we teach that this behavior is reprehensible?
David August
2 months ago

Spencer Neumann, the CFO of Netflix, owns a home that sold in 2015 for $9,600,000, and yet refuses to call #SAGAFTRAstrong nor #WGAstrong.

Instead, Neumann is saying, "We Need To Get Back To Work, That’s What We Are Focused On."

Such a transparent falsehood.

https://deadline.com/2023/09/netflix-cfo-actors-writers-strkes-1235545511/

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #UnionStrong #lies #NFLX #netflix

Zhi Zhu 🕸️
2 months ago

"Sandy Hook families were awarded nearly $1.5 billion in liabilities last year for Jones’s false theories [i.e. LIES] about the 2012 school shooting...

Yet Jones is still broadcasting, and Free Speech Systems is seeking court approval for a new contract that would pay him $1.5 million a year plus incentive bonuses, according to the AP. The new contract would be a significant bump from his current annual salary of $520,000."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/15/alex-jones-sandy-hook-spending/

#AlexJones #Lies #SandyHook #USA #News

Text from article:
Within a year of filing for bankruptcy, Jones reported that he paid more than $1.3 million in debts that he owed to people classified as “insiders,” which include any relatives or business partners. Among those listed is Erika Wulff Jones, whom he married in 2017 and with whom he has a child. Alex Jones reported paying his wife more than $680,800 as part of what’s listed as a “premarital agreement.”

Yet Jones is still broadcasting, and Free Speech Systems is seeking court approval for a new contract that would pay him $1.5 million a year plus incentive bonuses, according to the AP. The new contract would be a significant bump from his current annual salary of $520,000.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
2 months ago

“It is disturbing that Alex Jones continues to spend money on excessive household expenditures and his extravagant lifestyle when that money rightfully belongs to the families he spent years tormenting,” Christopher Mattei, a Connecticut lawyer for the families, told The Post in a statement. “The families are increasingly concerned and will continue to contest these matters in court.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/15/alex-jones-sandy-hook-spending/

#AlexJones #Lies #SandyHook #USA #News

Zhi Zhu 🕸️
2 months ago

"In total, Jones’s personal spending between May & July was $242,219.

Jones, who has been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion to the families after years of saying the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy... He continues to tell his #Infowars audience that he has money problems, urging them to buy his products to support his cause.

Jones’s personal net worth is around $14 million"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/15/alex-jones-sandy-hook-spending/

#AlexJones #Lies #SandyHook #USA #News

News headline:
Alex Jones spent $93,000 in July, but hasn’t paid Sandy Hook families
By Timothy Bella
September 15, 2023 at 11:08 a.m. EDT
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
3 months ago

@w7voa

"There is nothing in journalistic standards that says you have to give a platform for someone to spread lies, even if they are a senator or representative (or even the [ex-]president)...

We do not need to reward bad behavior with airtime...

If there are no consequences, how will we teach that this behavior is reprehensible?"
~Dan Rather
https://steady.substack.com/p/do-republicans-believe-in-democracy

#Journalism #Journalists #Trump #GOP #Lies #BigLie #USPolitics #USA #News #Media

Text from article:
Let’s be clear about something else. There is nothing in journalistic standards that says you have to give a platform for someone to spread lies, even if they are a senator or representative (or even the president). In live interviews, even if one attempts to fact-check, lies are still heard by millions of viewers. If someone is spreading the Big Lie do they deserve to be on television? We do not need to reward bad behavior with airtime. We need to cut off the oxygen to the fire before it spreads and destroys our democracy further. If there are no consequences, how will we teach that this behavior is reprehensible?

Failed Arizona candidates and election deniers Kari Lake, Abe Hamadeh and Mark Finchem all filed lawsuits challenging the results of their elections in 2022.

Now, they have all been sanctioned for lying in court filings and bringing baseless lawsuits.

Holy hell, these fascist never stop frauding.

#Republican #election #Lies #TheBigLie

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/election-deniers-sanctioned-in-all-three-arizona-election-contests-from-2022/

Why do we put up with being lied to?
In 2014 the people of Scotland were told we'd be "Better Together".
in 2016 we were told vote for Brexit to "Take Back Control".

So why is it that we clearly aren't better together and that the only thing we have taken back control of is a country in a state of shambles.
What lies will these same politicians and press push at the next election?
#Brexit
#ScottishIndependence
#Lies

Lord Kitchener poster from the Great War. He wears a military hat and handlebar moustache and points at the viewer saying, "We Lie To You"
Piousunyn
3 months ago

@georgetakei Republicans use projection and gaslighting what straight out lies are not available, which they refer to as alternate facts.

#Republcias #GOP #projection #gaslighting #lies