Social Media Doesn’t Allow Posts That Break COVID-19 Narratives, Even Though Health Organizations Keep Backtracking Previous Findings

Social media companies have policed coronavirus-related content based on information from top health organizations, even as those organizations have contradicted themselves.

“We’re removing known harmful misinformation related to COVID-19, and when someone taps on a hashtag related to COVID-19, we show resources from WHO, CDC and local health authorities,” Facebook subsidiary Instagram’s policy stated.

But both the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have contradicted their own information regarding masks, airborne transmission of coronavirus, asymptomatic testing and other key issues.

Social media companies have policed coronavirus-related content based on information from top health organizations, even as those organizations have contradicted themselves.

Facebook and Google instituted policies early in the pandemic restricting user content shared on their platforms to information that doesn’t contradict World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) findings. However, the organizations have contradicted, backtracked or retracted their own findings throughout the pandemic.

Facebook’s policy states that the site “will debunk common myths that have been identified by the World Health Organization.” Shortly after coronavirus was declared a pandemic, Facebook announced its “Coronavirus Information Center,” which curates updates from “organizations such as the World Health Organization.”

“We’re removing known harmful misinformation related to COVID-19, and when someone taps on a hashtag related to COVID-19, we show resources from WHO, CDC and local health authorities,” Facebook subsidiary Instagram’s policy stated.

Google’s policy prohibited YouTube content creators from sharing information “that contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO),” the tech giant’s “Medical Misinformation Policy” said.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Reddit and YouTube issued a joint statement in March 2020, promising to combat coronavirus misinformation and to share updates from “government healthcare agencies.”

However, both the CDC and WHO have shared information throughout the pandemic that the organizations were forced to retract.

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https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/25/social-media-facebook-google-coronavirus-misinformation-world-health-organization-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention/

At Least Six People Reportedly Hospitalized After Stabbing Attack in North Vancouver

According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in North Vancouver, one suspect has been taken into custody. His motives remain unclear. Police have continued to look for additional victims.

Multiple victims were taken to the hospital after a stabbing attack in North Vancouver on Saturday, accrording to the North Vancouver RCMP department.

Local media, citing emergency health services, reported that six people were hospitalized after the attack.

Police said that one male suspect has been taken into custody, and he appeared to have acted alone. The department also outlined that there was no ongoing threat to the public.

"One suspect in custody. Appears this was a lone suspect. No ongoing threat to public. We are still looking for potential additional victims. Any witnesses please call us at 604-985-1311", North Vancouver RCMP said.

A video allegedly showing the moment the police arrested the suspect was shared online, showing officers apprehending a man who holds what appears to be a knife.

The incident took place outside the Lynn Valley Library, with police reportedly responding to reports of a stabbing "just after 1:45 p.m. [local time]".

https://sputniknews.com/world/202103271082469974-six-people-reportedly-hospitalized-after-stabbing-attack-in-north-vancouver/

Male Antifa Militant Attacks Woman During Children’s Easter Egg Hunt — Promptly Gets Clocked By Proud Boy… and Arrested

A male Antifa militant got clocked in the face and arrested after he attacked a woman during a Easter egg hunt where children were present.

The incident took place during a “Pro-America Rally” in Schaumburg, Illinois.

The Easter eggs were provided by the Proud Boys, who often do charity work in their local communities.

A Proud Boy who goes by the name Remy Del Toro explained that, prior to Antifa showing up, the event had been family friendly and peaceful. He said there were about 200 people there, 20 of which were children. He said that four members of Antifa showed up and attempted to gain access to the area where the Easter egg hunt was underway. That is when the trouble began.

“We kindly asked them to respect that area, but one of the scums decided to bum rush a young woman to the ground,” he explained. “I had to defend her against her abuser by doing what a Proud Boy should do. Cops rushed to the scene and reviewed footage of the incident and they handcuffed the Antifa scum. Their own footage showed him to be the attacker,” he explained.

“What a Proud Boy should do,” it turns out, is punch the woman beater in the face — and he sure did.

The Proud Boys provided Gateway Pundit with videos of the incident.

After shoving the woman to the ground, the far-left militant attempted to use his flag to hit another woman that was filming, Del Toro said.

“I punched his ass and took him to the ground,” he said.

Del Toro was not arrested, but the attacker was.

According to those at the scene, the Antifa militant is now being charged with battery.

https://youtu.be/YzXtTwn2NOw

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/exclusive-male-antifa-militant-attacks-woman-childrens-easter-egg-hunt-promptly-gets-clocked-proud-boy-arrested-videos/

North Korea Says Biden Administration Took Wrong First Step Over Latest Missile Test

SEOUL—North Korea said on Saturday that the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden had taken a wrong first step and revealed “deep-seated hostility” by criticizing its self-defensive missile test.

North Korea on Friday said it had launched a new type of tactical short-range ballistic missile. Biden said the test violated U.N. Security Council resolutions but he remained open to diplomacy with Pyongyang.

Ri Pyong Chol, secretary of the North’s ruling Worker’s Party’s Central Committee, said the test was self-defensive against threats posed by South Korea and the United States with their joint military exercises and advanced weapons.

“We express our deep apprehension over the U.S. chief executive faulting the regular test-fire, exercise of our state’s right to self-defense, as the violation of U.N. ‘resolutions’ and openly revealing his deep-seated hostility,” Ri said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

Biden’s remarks were an “undisguised encroachment on our state’s right to self-defence and provocation,” he said, adding Washington might face “something that is not good” if it continues to make “thoughtless remarks.”

“We are by no means developing weapons to draw someone’s attention or influence his policy,” Ri said.

“I think that the new U.S. administration obviously took its first step wrong.”

He accused the Biden administration of “exploiting every opportunity” to provoke Pyongyang by branding it as a “security threat.”

The test came just days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to work to denuclearize North Korea and criticized its “systemic and widespread” human rights abuses during a visit to Seoul with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

North Korea has also slammed the South Korea-U.S. military exercises which ended last week, even though they were repeatedly scaled back to facilitate a restart of denuclearization talks with Pyongyang.

Ri said Washington insisted on a “gangster-like logic” to be able to bring strategic nuclear assets to South Korea and test intercontinental ballistic missiles at its convenience, but ban North Korea from testing even a tactical weapon.

“We know very well what we must do,” he said. “We will continue to increase our most thoroughgoing and overwhelming military power.”

The White House, which said its North Korea policy review was in the “final stages,” declined to comment. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

When asked earlier about the launch and whether it would affect the policy review, department spokeswoman Jalina Porter again condemned the test as “destabilizing.”

“North Korea’s unlawful nuclear and ballistic missile programs constitute serious threats to international peace and security,” she told a regular news briefing.

“I can’t underscore enough that the president and his security team are continuing to assess the situation and one of our greatest priorities right now is ensuring that we’re on the same page as our allies and partners.”

Kim Dong-yup, a professor at Kyungnam University in Seoul, said Ri’s remarks meant North Korea would potentially ramp up military tension in the coming months by developing and testing advanced weapons.

Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report on Friday that commercial satellite imagery showed North Korea has continued to produce uranium concentrate, used to build nuclear weapons, over the past eight months, though it has not tested any bombs since 2017.

https://www.ntd.com/north-korea-says-biden-administration-took-wrong-first-step-over-latest-missile-test_588283.html

Los Angeles County votes for $36 million increase in funding for police after major surge in crime

What happened to defund the police?

Progressives have made calls to "defund the police" and "abolish the police" in cities across the United States for months, including in Los Angeles. However, cities have been forced to provide additional funding for their police departments after violent crimes have spiked, including Los Angeles.

In the first two months of 2021, Los Angeles Police Department officers have fielded 88% more reports of shots fired than the same time period in 2020. Gunshot victims in L.A. are up 141% versus last year, and homicides are up 39%, according to Crosstown, a nonprofit news organization based out of the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. There were 15 hate crimes reported in Los Angeles in 2020, up from seven reported in 2019, according to the Los Angeles Police Commission.

To combat the wave of violent crime, the California city has voted on Thursday to increase police funding. The Los Angeles County Metro, the area's public transportation agency, voted to increase police funding by $36 million. The additional funding will go to the Los Angeles Police Department, Long Beach Police Department, and Los Angeles Sherriff's Department. Law enforcement had originally asked for $111 million in more funding.

The extra funding passed with a unanimous 12-0 vote from the Metro Board of Directors, including a "yea" from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, according to the New York Post.

In June, Garcetti said he was committed to not increasing the police budget. "We will not be increasing our police budget," the Democratic mayor proclaimed, adding that the city would be "reinvesting in black communities and communities of color."

The Los Angeles City Council voted last July to slash $150 million from the LAPD budget.

If this sounds familiar, it is because Minneapolis and Portland were also forced to increase funding in police after pledging to defund the police.

In June, Minneapolis City Council vowed to "dismantle" the city's police department. After crime skyrocketed in Minneapolis, the City Council voted unanimously to approve $6.4 million in additional funding to the Minneapolis Police Department.

Portland reduced its police budget by nearly $16 million in 2020, but then crime surged. Earlier this month, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) called for more than $2 million in funding for the Portland Police Department.

There were so many shootings and gun violence that Portland was forced to reinstate the city's gun violence task force in March after disbanding the Gun Violence Reduction Team (GVRT) only months earlier.

"More people died of gunfire last year in Portland — 40 — than the entire tally of homicides the previous year. The number of shootings — 900 — was nearly 2 1/2 times higher than the year before," the Associated Press reported.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/los-angeles-police-funding-crime