Scratch A Lib, find a tyrant #8675309<\/p>\n
Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0Wants Facebook to Shut Down\u00a0PJ Media<\/em>\u00a0and Others for \u2018Climate Denial.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n While the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0piously reminds us that \u201cdemocracy dies in darkness,\u201d it\u2019s busy shooting out the lights: on Tuesday it published\u00a0a lengthy call<\/a>\u00a0to Facebook to shut down dissident media, including PJ Media, because, you see, the non-Leftist publications are daring to spread \u201cclimate change denial\u201d on the platform. Not just democracy, but also the freedom of speech dies in darkness if the\u00a0Post<\/em> gets its way.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0article focuses upon a newly published study from one of the endless stream of far-Left advocacy groups masquerading as think tanks, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0hastens to assure us is a nonprofit. Of course. What else could it possibly be called?<\/p>\n Disagree with the Leftist establishment about the causes of and\/or remedies for climate change, and what else could possibly be your motivation but \u201chate\u201d? You don\u2019t want to see your country voluntarily impoverish itself and empower the People\u2019s Republic of China in service of unproven assumptions and selective application of accountability? Come on, man! You\u2019re just a bigot!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The CCDH study supposedly shows that \u201c10 publishers, including RT and the Federalist Papers, are responsible for nearly 70 percent of interactions with climate change misinformation on the platform.\u201d The CCDH has labeled these publishers the \u201cToxic Ten<\/a>,\u201d and they comprise virtually all of the major dissident platforms operating today: Breitbart, the Western Journal, Newsmax, the Media Research Center, the Washington Times, \u201cthe Federalist Papers,\u201d by which these top-notch researchers apparently mean the Federalist, the Daily Wire, and the Patriot Post, along with Russian State Media (what\u2019s a Leftist conspiracy theory these days without the Russians) and of course Townhall Media, including PJ Media, Townhall, Red State, and Twitchy.<\/p>\n These publications, the\u00a0Post<\/em> claims, put out \u201ca broad range of climate disinformation, including articles that undermine the existence or impacts of climate change or misrepresent data in ways that might erode trust in climate science experts.\u201d They\u2019re out there exercising the freedom of speech, utterly heedless of the looming apocalypse: \u201cThe study comes amid increasing political concern about the catastrophic impact of climate change, as global leaders gather in Glasgow for the United Nations-brokered COP26, described as the last chance for nations to hammer out a unified plan to significantly cut greenhouse gases.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0hopes that the CCDH report will put an end to all that and bring about still more ideological conformity on Facebook: \u201cWhile the report doesn\u2019t provide a comprehensive look at all misleading climate change content promoted on Facebook, it has the potential to inspire political action as the CCDH has historically captured policymakers\u2019 attention.\u201d<\/p>\n It notes that the CCDH\u2019s earlier report, which targeted the \u201cdisinformation dozen\u201d who supposedly spread \u201canti-vaccine content,\u201d was repeatedly cited by the White House along with numerous lawmakers in Congress, and it was used as a proxy for questions about the role of social media in aggravating vaccine hesitancy.\u201d<\/p>\n The need to act is urgent, or so the CCDH and the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0would have you believe. CCDH chief Imran Ahmed wants you to know that he is thoroughly petrified: \u201cWhen you put it all together, you\u2019ve got these two industries, Big Oil and Big Tech, and they are the two industries that pose the greatest threat to the survival of our species.\u201d<\/p>\n Facebook, however, is not being cooperative, and not exercising enough censorship: \u201cEarlier this year, Facebook promised to start adding informational labels to some climate posts, much like it does with election or coronavirus posts. But CCDH researchers found that of the posts they surveyed containing climate misinformation, just 8% carried Facebook\u2019s informational label.\u201d Nor does it look as if this is going to change anytime soon.<\/p>\n Facebook spokesman Andy Stone called the methodology of the CCDH study \u201cflawed.\u201d Facebook previously, according to the\u00a0Post<\/em>, \u201cpushed back on the structure of the CCDH\u2019s disinformation dozen report, arguing it was based on \u2018narrow data\u2019 that wasn\u2019t representative of the hundreds of millions of posts that people shared about coronavirus vaccines on Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say that Facebook doesn\u2019t interfere in climate change discussions at all. Nick Clegg, the social media giant\u2019s vice president for global affairs and communications, noted that Facebook \u201creduces distribution of posts that its third-party fact-checkers say are false.\u201d That\u2019s not enough, as far as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Gestapo) is concerned. \u201cFacebook and other social media companies make money when they send users down rabbit holes of climate change denial,\u201d\u00a0Whitehouse thundered<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s a very dangerous business model for the future of the planet. It\u2019s hard to tell which is more disgusting: Facebook propagating this disinformation, or the fossil fuel industry funding it.\u201d<\/p>\n So far Facebook isn\u2019t cooperating, but fascists such as Whitehouse and the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0editors aren\u2019t going to give up their efforts to silence all dissent and destroy the freedom of speech. As Paula Bolyard\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0the other day regarding another controversial issue where PJ Media is telling truths that others fear to enunciate, \u201cin 21st-century America, truth is considered a revolutionary idea\u2026.We\u2019ve sacrificed a lot of revenue over the last few years because we refuse to cave to the social-media censors, but we will continue to tell the truth. If you want to support us in this mission,\u00a0please consider becoming a VIP member<\/a>. For the price of a cup of coffee per day, you can partner with us to make sure the Left isn\u2019t the only voice out there.\u201d<\/p>\n The Left is working hard to make sure it\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0the only voice out there. That\u2019s why we must raise our voices all the louder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scratch A Lib, find a tyrant #8675309 Washington Post\u00a0Wants Facebook to Shut Down\u00a0PJ Media\u00a0and Others for \u2018Climate Denial.\u2019 While the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0piously reminds us that \u201cdemocracy dies in darkness,\u201d it\u2019s busy shooting out the lights: on Tuesday it published\u00a0a lengthy call\u00a0to Facebook to shut down dissident media, including PJ Media, because, you see, the non-Leftist publications … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113717,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876\/revisions\/113717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}