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Google, YouTube spend MILLIONS to launch Global Fact Check Fund
Jarryd JaegerNov 29, 2022
The move, which marks the companies' largest fact-checking grant to date, comes as they continue to ramp up their fight against "misinformation" online.
On Tuesday, Google and YouTube announcedthat they will be providing a $13.2 million grant to the nonprofit Poynter Institute's International Fact Checking Network with the goal of launching a new "Global Fact CheckFund," set to launch in early 2023.
The move, which marks the companies' largest fact-checking grant to date, comes as they continue to ramp up their fight against "misinformation" online.
According to Google and YouTube, the grant will "support [the Poynter Institute's] network of 135 fact-checking organizations from 65 countries covering over 80 languages."
The companies justified their decision by noting that "helping people to identify misinformation is a global challenge."
"The Global Fact Check Fund," they explained, "will help fact-checkers to scale existing operations or launch new ones that elevate information, uplift credible sources and reduce the harm of mis- and disinformation around the globe."
Organizations are expected to use the funding to "incorporate new technologies, create or expand digital footprints, optimize verification tools, and increase their capacities to deepen audience engagement through innovative storytelling formats such as audio, video, or podcasts."
"The world needs fact-checking more than ever before," IFCN executive director Baybars Örsek said. "This partnership with Google and YouTube infuses financial support to global fact-checkers and is a step in the right direction, and while there’s much work to be done, this partnership has sparked meaningful collaboration and an important step.
In recent years, investments in programs aimed at tackling mis- and disinformation online have grown in tandem with peoples' interest and awareness in the subject.
According to data from Google, in October 2022, interest in mis- and disinformation across the world reached its highest point since 2004, when records began, with the most pressing topic being the Covid-19 pandemic.
During the pandemic, big tech's fact-checking apparatus went into overdrive as companies struggled to keep up with information that seemed to be changing on a daily, if not hourly basis.
YouTube has been criticized for its crackdowns on those who shared ideas that opposed the mainstream, many of whom have had their views vindicated in the months since.
Google, YouTube spend MILLIONS to launch Global Fact Check Fund
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https://thepostmillennial.com/google-youtube-spend-millions-to-launch-global-fact-check-fund
Balenciaga's creative director Demna sees industry award REVOKED amid backlash over child exploitation ad campaign
Libby EmmonsNov 29, 2022
Business of Fashion said they tried to engage with Balenciaga over the scandal, but the brand declined that invitation.
High fashion brand Balenciaga continues to suffer from the fallout of their pro-pedophilia ad campaign as the Business of Fashion has just revoked an award for famed creative designer Demna Gvasalia, 41.
Demna is the one who took over in 2015 and boosted the brand to be a darling of celebrities and models. Business of Fashion said they tried to engage with Balenciaga over the scandal, but the brand declined that invitation.
The ad campaign for Spring 2023 showed images of children clutching teddy bears in bondage gear, and one image was accompanied by a background of documents, which were from a Supreme Court ruling on child pornorgraphy.
One of the books in the background of another ad was also disturbing as it was a celebration of the work of a Belgian artist "whose work depicts toddler castration," The Daily Mail reports.
Demna is not the only creative with Balenciaga to come under fire. Chief designer Lotta Volkova has used her Instagram to post images of what appears to be Satan worship, child torture, and exploitation. Lotta worked with Demna until 2017.
Those images, found on her social media pages, resulted in Volkova turning her account to private. A spokesperson for Balenciaga said that she "has not worked with Balenciaga or its team since 2017 and she has in no way participated in the brand’s recent Instagram or advertising campaigns."
The event during which Demna would have received the award begins on Wednesday.
"Since its inception, BoF VOICES has been a platform for important, honest and sometimes uncomfortable conversations that have helped to address key issues in the fashion industry head on," a statement issued by Business of Fashion began.
"Earlier this year, we invited Balenciaga's creative director Demna to BoF VOICES to receive our Global VOICES Award for 2022," BoF continued.
"At BoF, we hold the safety of children in the highest regard. And like many, we have been seeking the truth about how children appeared with BDSM-inspired products in Balenciaga's recent campaign images, which are wholly inconsistent with our values. As a result, we will not be presenting Demna with the Global VOICES Award this year.
"Nonetheless," they continue, "we asked the leadership at Balenciaga to come to VOICE to take responsibility for releasing these images and offer an explanation. They declined our invitation to speak at this time, but BoF remains open to having this important conversation."
Balenciaga issued their own remarks after the controversy surfaced, saying that they would sue the ad creator North Six over the inclusion of the court documents in the campaign. North Six said they were made to take the fall.
An agent for set director Nicholas Des Jardin said "Everyone from Balenciaga was on the shoot and was present on every shot and worked on the edit of every image in post-production."
"All the items included in this shooting were provided by third parties that confirmed in writing these props were fake…they turned out to be real most likely coming from the filming of a television drama. The inclusion of these unapproved documents was the result of reckless negligence for which Balenciaga has filed a complaint," Balenciaga said on Monday.
"We take full accountability for our lack of oversight and control of the documents in the background and we could have done things differently," they continued.
"We apologize for displaying unsettling documents in our campaign," they said. "We take this matter very seriously and are taking legal action against the parties responsible for creating the set and including unapproved items for our Spring 23 campaign photoshoot. We strongly condemn abuse of children in any form. We stand for children’s safety and well-being."
Gabriele Galimberti was the photographer, who worked with National Geographic and created a series called "Toy Stories," showing children surrounded by their favorite toys.
The court documents were from a 2002 Supreme Court case, Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition, which stated that the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 was too broad, and a violation of freedom of speech where it concerned computer-generated images or adults portraying minors
Those who tried to complain to Balenciaga on Twitter found that the account had been deleted.
https://thepostmillennial.com/balenciagas-creative-director-demna-sees-industry-award-revoked-amid-backlash-over-child-exploitation-ad-campaign
“The Elections Clause” of the constitution, a case is being ruled on the SC in early December to prevent democrat legislatures on redistricting in states. What they are trying to do is against the Constitution!
Mike Davis Gives His Analysis Of Moore v. Harper Case And Chinese Hold On Big Tech
Bannons War Room
November 29, 2022
ArtI.S4.C1.3 Congress and the Elections Clause
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Known as the Elections Clause, Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 provides for Congress and state legislatures to regulate the Times, Places and Manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives.1 Under the Elections Clause, each state establishes how it will hold congressional elections, subject to Congress adopting or altering the state requirements (except as to the place of choosing Senators).2 The Elections Clause’s Times, Places and Manner encompasses a complete code for congressional elections, not only as to times and places, but in relation to notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns.3 States and Congress may also establish sanctions for violating election laws4 and procedures for recounts5 and primaries.6 The Elections Clause however, does not permit states or Congress to set voter qualifications for congressional elections, which, under the Constitution, must be the same qualifications necessary to vote for the most numerous branch of the state legislature.7 Likewise, the Elections Clause does not allow states or Congress to change the qualifications to be a Member of the House of Representatives or the Senate, which are stipulated at Article I, Section 2, Clause 2 for the House and Article I, Section 3, Clause 3 for the Senate.8
By providing Congress power to preempt state election procedures, the Framers sought to prevent states from thwarting the federal government’s operation by using state law to manipulate or preclude elections for the House of Representatives.9 For example, during the Constitutional Convention Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania expressed concern that the States might make false returns and then make no provision for new elections,10 while Alexander Hamilton observed in the Federalist Papers that Nothing can be more evident than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the national government, in the hands of the State legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy.11 Despite the Elections Clause providing Congress power to preempt state law governing elections, Congress did not exercise this power until 1842 when it passed a law requiring that Representatives be elected on a district basis.12 Congress subsequently added contiguity, compactness, and substantial equality of population to districting requirements.13
LThe Court has also held that where a primary election is an integral part of choosing a Member of Congress, the right to vote in that primary election is subject to congressional protection20 and includes the opportunity to cast a ballot and to have it counted honestly.21 Congress may secure elections from personal violence and intimidation as well as from failures to count ballots lawfully cast22 or the stuffing of ballot boxes with fraudulent ballots.23 Congress may also enforce election laws by imposing sanctions24 or punish state election officers for violating legal duties relating to congressional elections.25 But the Court has held that bribing voters, although within Congress’s power under other clauses of the Constitution, does not implicate the Elections Clause.26 Finally, the Court has recognized that because the Elections Clause specifically vests Congress and the states with authority over the Time, Places and Manner of congressional elections, the Court’s authority over such matters is limited.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S4-C1-3/ALDE_00013640/