DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 29, 2022
How To Leave Twitter And Protect Your Personal Information. A (I think) useful How-To. For me, Delaware Liberal is the closest I get to social media. Sometimes it pays to be anti-social.
The Attack On Paul Pelosi Was No Random Crime. Which was how Fox ‘News’ reported it. It was an attempted assassination carried out by a RWNJ and inspired by the Big Lie rabble rousers. Here’s more on the attacker:
The man who allegedly attacked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about Covid-19 vaccines, the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack.
David DePape, 42, was identified by police Friday as the suspect in the assault on Paul Pelosi at the speaker’s San Francisco home.
Last year, David DePape posted links on his Facebook page to multiple videos produced by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell falsely alleging that the 2020 election was stolen. Other posts included transphobic images and linked to websites claiming Covid-19 vaccines were deadly. “The death rates being promoted are what ever ‘THEY’ want to be promoted as the death rate,” one post read.
DePape also posted links to YouTube videos with titles like “Democrat FARCE Commission to Investigate January 6th Capitol Riot COLLAPSES in Congress!!!” and “Global Elites Plan To Take Control Of YOUR Money! (Revealed)”
Two days after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd, DePape wrote that the trial was “a modern lynching,” falsely indicating that Floyd died of a drug overdose.
He also posted content about the “Great Reset” – the sprawling conspiracy theory that global elites are using coronavirus to usher in a new world order in which they gain more power and oppress the masses. And he complained that politicians making promises to try to win votes “are offering you bribes in exchange for your further enslavement.”
Trump-Appointed Judge Approves Voter Intimidation In Arizona:
A federal judge ruled Friday that conspiracy theorists — some of them armed and wearing military-style tactical gear — have a right to continue staking out ballot drop boxes while people vote in Arizona.
Judge Michael Liburdi, appointed by former President Donald Trump, refused to issue a restraining order against members of a right-wing activist group gathering at ballot boxes in Maricopa County — arguing they had a First Amendment right to do so, were not a proven “true threat” and that their actions did not “fall into any traditionally recognized category of voter intimidation.”
This judge won’t rule them a ‘true threat’ even if they mow down wannabe voters.
Google Ads Fund Misinformation Around The World. Here’s how:
Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
In one instance, Google continued to place ads on a publication in Bosnia and Herzegovina for months after the U.S. government officially imposed sanctions on the site. Google stopped doing business with the site, which the U.S. Treasury Department described as the “personal media station” of a prominent Bosnian Serb separatist politician, only after being contacted by ProPublica.
Google ads are a major source of revenue for sites that spread election disinformation in Brazil, notably false claims about the integrity of the voting system that have been advanced by the incumbent president, Jair Bolsonaro. Voters in Brazil are going to the polls on Sunday with the outcome in doubt after Bolsonaro’s unexpectedly strong showing in the first round of voting.
Google’s publicly announced policies bar the placement of ads on content that makes unreliable or harmful claims on a range of issues, including health, climate, elections and democracy. Yet the investigation found Google regularly places ads, including those from major brands, on articles that appear to violate its own policy.
The analysis found that Google placed ads on 41% of roughly 800 active online articles rated by members of the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network as publishing false claims about COVID-19. The company also served ads on 20% of articles about climate change that Science Feedback, an IFCN-accredited fact-checking organization, has rated false.
Yet one more News Journal article about ‘Wegmaniacs’ this morning. I won’t link to it. It’s embarrassing.
BTW, if you missed it, the Phils came from 5 runs down to win Game 1 of the World Series. An instant classic!
What do you want to talk about?
My question re the pelosi attack. If he had mowed the guy down with an ar would fox laud him as a hero or a murderer of a true patriot
This one should please the critics of modern art: A Mondrian has been hung upside-down for the past 75 years and nobody noticed.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years