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Mark Zuckerberg has told Facebook’s staff that ‘the outcome of the election is now clear’ and that Joe Biden ‘is going to be our next president’ – despite his social media company giving voice to millions of Americans who insist without evidence that the election has been stolen. Zuckerberg, 36, told his employees during an … Read more
Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Monday that Hunter Biden’s laptop ‘is not part of some Russia disinformation campaign’ as he blasted Rep. Adam Schiff for saying dirt on Trump’s rival came from the Kremlin. Ratcliffe, a Trump loyalist who assumed his post in May, accused Schiff of having ‘politicized’ intelligence – … Read more
James Murdoch has said he quit his father’s media empire because it was ‘legitimizing disinformation’ and slammed ‘crazy’ Trump for ‘infecting the US with cruelty’ and downplaying COVID-19. The youngest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his second wife Anna told the New York Times about his decision to break free from the family business, … Read more
Japan has accused China of spreading ‘propaganda’ and ‘disinformation’ during the coronavirus pandemic in a scathing annual defence review. The alleged ‘disinformation’ included online claims that the virus was brought to China by a US military member and that Chinese herbal remedies could treat the disease. The claims came out amid the ‘social uncertainties and … Read more
Claim – On the third Friday in January Coronavirus was already spreading around the world but the government ‘brushed aside’ the threat in an hour-long COBR meeting and said the risk to the UK public was ‘low’. Response – At a very basic level, this is wrong. The meeting was on the fourth Friday in … Read more