Tuesday, October 27, 2020

No matter who wins the US election, the world's 'fake news' problem is here to stay

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/25/world/trump-fake-news-legacy-intl/index.html

But the specter of disinformation and foreign electoral interference, which has loomed large over the 2020 presidential race, is perhaps not as pernicious as the language now coming out of the White House itself. Less than two weeks out from the election, Trump has touted unfounded narratives and conspiracy theories casting doubt over mail-in voting and the November results -- which could leave Americans even more vulnerable to further manipulation, experts warn. 
 
"There is no question that the fact that the President of the United States is using this term to attack independent media gives an element of license to other politicians elsewhere, including some authoritarian leaders to dress up their own attacks on independent media and point to the example of the US," said Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

4 comments:

  1. Can we get back to the K-G garbage heter? Or to Mendel Epstein et al?
    Nathan Lewis famed lawyer for on the defense team of Mendel Epstein et al . See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289943

    “Amy Barrett joined the firm at about the time we won the Jersey City case, and she enlisted in my menorah team. She also worked intensively with me in another major litigation that exposed her to the Hasidic community. After four residents of the Hasidic community of New Square were found guilty of federal fraud charges, the leader of the community – the “Skverer Rebbe” – asked me to represent them in a professional capacity. I undertook that task, drafting appeal briefs for all the defendants. Amy was a central player on our team, and my records reflect meetings with her and legal memoranda she wrote. I presented oral argument in that appeal in May 2000. I can’t recall whether Amy came to New York for that occasion, but other counsel remember that she was there. We lost the appeals in August 2000. Then, to our surprise, President Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of the Skverer defendants as he left the White House in January 2001. (A criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton and the Skverer Rebbe had made an illicit bargain when she visited him during her 2000 campaign for election to be senator from New York was closed with no criminal charge in June 2002 by then Republican United States Attorney James Comey.) When Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated for a Supreme Court seat in 1993, I was visited by FBI agents doing a background check. I asked them why I had been chosen for this distinction, since I knew her only from several random meetings. They replied that the sole Jewish associations on her resume were affiliation with the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (I was then president of its American section) and the American Jewish Congress. She was not then a member of any synagogue or other nominally Jewish group.”

    Mr. Nathan Lewis, Esq. may I ask you directly legal questions? How can I get the courts to free my pension and to stay the $25,000 fines/sanctions on me? I like writing court letters. I never abandoned my house or my pension in Aranoff v Aranoff. Four times SCOTUS voted on my petitions. See Docket for 18-9390 and Docket for 18-7160. My petitions are for public view. I love that. I’m waiting now for a new SCOTUS docket number. Any thoughts?

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  2. CNN complaining about other sources producing fake news is rich! Remember how the Har Nof attack was originally reported as an attack on on mosque? Any recollection of their decades of anti-Israel reporting and supporting of the lies in the Arab narratives?
    Here again is what I've been saying - both sides produce fake news and you have to take a step back and realize this.

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  3. yes here we go again with your false claims

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  4. cnn did make an error in one of their graphic headlines - which they quickly corrected and apologized

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