Interesting part 2:40-3:08
Think mirror.
KEK Playbook known. Attack those who tell the truth, and paint them as liars, to hide your lies. See Eye Aye
Exclusive: Pandemic relief aid went to media that promoted COVID misinformation
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials have warned about the dangers of a parallel “infodemic” — the spread of conspiracy theories, misinformation and disinformation about the virus.
Some of that misinformation, it seems, has been spread by media outlets that have benefited from the federal government’s COVID-19 relief program.
According to a joint analysis conducted by the counter-disinformation consulting firm Alethea Group and the nonprofit Global Disinformation Index, at least five companies behind some of the internet’s top sources of false, misleading or conspiratorial information related to COVID-19, including the Epoch Times, Newsmax and the Federalist, received sizable loans from the federal government as part of the Paycheck Protection Program.
“These outlets are getting money from the government in response to a pandemic that they are having an active role in prolonging,” said Danny Rogers, chief technology officer at GDI, which uses a combination of expert analysis and machine learning technology to track the spread of disinformation narratives online.
As part of a joint analysis with Alethea Group, which was reviewed exclusively by Yahoo News, GDI used this methodology to identify what it said are the top 100 websites that have published the most false, misleading or conspiratorial content about COVID-19 throughout the pandemic.
“We train machine-learning models on a few hundred expertly selected pieces of COVID disinformation from around the internet,” Rogers explained. “Then we have a data platform that crawls roughly 115,000 open web domains, and pulls in about a million pieces of content a day. Each of those pieces of content gets tested against this machine-learning model … and if the machine-learning model matches, says it’s similar enough, it gets flagged as a piece of coronavirus misinformation.” The top 100 list generated for this particular analysis ranks the websites in order of how often their content was flagged as coronavirus misinformation.
Using a searchable database created by ProPublica, that list was compared against publicly available information from the Small Business Administration on organizations that received PPP assistance in the form of forgivable loans to help businesses keep paying their workers.
“What we found is that some of the companies that took PPP loans from the federal government were publishing false or misleading information about the pandemic, thus profiting off the infodemic,” said Cindy Otis, a former CIA analyst who is now vice president of analysis at Alethea Group.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-pandemic-relief-aid-went-to-media-that-promoted-covid-misinformation-100022099.html
Ruby prayed with her treasonous daughter too, before handing off fraudulent materials.
Who is it, that they pray to exactly? Amen/Awomen from a "Priest/Minister?"
Over the past few weeks President Trump has exhibited a proclivity to ignore or deny actual scientists and health care professionals. He appointed Vice President Mike Pence to lead the COVID-19 public health task force, specifically referencing the “Indiana model” as justification for doing so, which is a concerning justification. When Pence was asked about handling a 2015 HIV outbreak in Indiana when he was governor, he confidently indicated that it had been contained and his recollection painted him as a team player with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a steward of public health.
However, the details tell a much messier story. In light of evidence that people who injected drugs might be more susceptible to HIV, Pence had an opportunity to expand a needle-exchange program in southern Indiana, but he delayed. Between 2013 and 2015, the state rolled out a sequence of contradictory laws that temporarily created an exchange program but also carried stricter punishments for people found carrying needles. By 2017 there were over 200 cases of HIV attributed to the outbreak, and Pence’s declaration of a public health emergency did not stop the spread. The major lag time between when warning signs were presented to Pence and when he acted raise uncomfortable questions as to how the vice president might attempt to control coronavirus.
It’s difficult to critique Pence without discussing how his faith impacts his governance. A photo of the vice president praying with the White House Coronavirus Task Force quickly circulated in late February, serving not only as a reminder of Pence’s deeply held evangelical Christian faith, but also raising questions about how he might view the epidemic. Why should he listen to healthcare professionals, for example, if he thinks he can just pray COVID-19 away? Prayer can certainly have its place in private life, but praying before a meeting like this that should be informed by scientific data confuses the source from which Pence seeks guidance: is it from God or National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci and the other experts?
https://thehumanist.com/commentary/god-or-anthony-fauci-whos-your-covid-19-guide/
Liz seemed pained that she had to nominate McCarthy for speaker. She's been pretty quiet lately. I was more surprised to see her nominate McCarthy, than I was to see this article.
Liz. Short for Lizard.
Ex-chairman of China Huarong Asset Management sentenced to death
BEIJING (Reuters) -The former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co has been sentenced to death, a court in the northern city of Tianjin said on Tuesday, in one of the country's highest profile corruption cases.
Lai Xiaomin was convicted of receiving or seeking bribes totalling 1.788 billion yuan ($276.72 million) from 2008 to 2018, when he was also a senior banking regulator, according to the Secondary Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin.
Lai, who was expelled from the ruling Communist Party in 2018, was also convicted on a charge of bigamy.
Reuters was unable to contact Lai or his lawyer for comment.
"Lai Xiaomin was lawless and extremely greedy," the court statement said.
Huarong said its Communist Party committee supports the verdict.
"The severe treatment of Lai Xiaomin reflects the strong determination of the Central Committee with President Xi Jinping as the core to administer the party and its zero tolerance in punishing corruption," the company said in a statement.
The court noted that most of the activity in question took place after the 18th Party Congress in late 2012, referring to an event that sparked a sweeping anti-corruption campaign by soon-to-be President Xi Jinping that became a hallmark of his first term.
"The social harm was huge and the crimes were extremely serious and he should be severely punished according to law," the court said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-chairman-chinas-huarong-asset-091644222.html
So. Much. Fuckery.
Tanya Roberts Is Still Alive, Despite Being Declared Dead — Report
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tanya-roberts-still-alive-despite-224222533.html
Board fuckery, same time, third day in a row.