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A compilation of howlers from frequently fact-checked MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace.
They call her The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation.
In tribute to our own Typhoid Mary, we’re calling her Nigella.
FIGHT!
Tag Archives: fake news
A video purporting to show billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates with an enlarged chest has resurfaced online. @ReutersFacts found that the footage is digitally altered https://t.co/F0mGpYU7u7 pic.twitter.com/xt7V5C2SWv
— Reuters Fact Check (@ReutersFacts) April 25, 2022
Fact checkers.
Where would we be without them?
To the 4 nurses in Ireland who fought so hard for so many patients, but who themselves fell ill, and have now passed
RIP
— Paddy Cosgrave (@paddycosgrave) March 30, 2020
One nurse had come to Ireland for a better life. So young and so full of hope. Put has passed.
We must do more to protect those on the front lines who are giving their lives to protect us.
RIP
— Paddy Cosgrave (@paddycosgrave) March 31, 2020
@HSELive doesn’t comment on individual cases to protect people’s privacy. However, when we become aware of fake news that causes distress to our staff and families we must act. Contrary to tweets sent yesterday – thankfully none of our nurses have died in Ireland from #COVID19.
— HSE Ireland (@HSELive) March 31, 2020
This afternoon.
Update:
This is very reassuring. Can I ask @paulreiddublin by “OUR staff… and OUR nurses” does the HSE mean to include all HCW, including agency nurses, those working in private nursing homes etc.
Likewise are non-HSE contracted doctors included in “OUR STAFF”? https://t.co/Cgt5pl55GQ
— Paddy Cosgrave (@paddycosgrave) March 31, 2020
Meanwhile…
This tweet has presumably been sent to rebut claims last night that 4 nurses had died, but it was reported last week that a healthcare worker had died. Is it the case that this worker was not employed by the HSE? https://t.co/ts9NwqOhet
— Colette Browne (@colettebrowne) March 31, 2020
Anyone?
Update:
It has been confirmed that a healthcare worker has sadly died from COVID-19, but claims that four nurses have died are wrong. No nurses in Ireland have died from COVID-19.
— Colette Browne (@colettebrowne) March 31, 2020
Papier Mârk
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This morning.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
A fake Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg outside Leinster House this morning calling on TDs to ‘Correct the Record’, part of a worldwide campaign disinformation on the social media giant.
Meanwhile…
Today.
In the Seanad.
Fine Gael TD Hildergarde Naughton (second pic above) is charing a hearing of the International Grand Committee of Fake News and Disinformation.
The committee will hear from a number of senior executives from Google, Facebook and Twitter and the Data Protection Commissioner.
Experts speaking to the committee this morning included (from top) Ben Nimmo, Senior Fellow for Information Defense at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab; Carole Cadwalladr, British author and investigative journalist; Roger McNamee, investor and author; and Karlin Lillington, columnist at The Irish Times.
The committee hearings can be watched live in link above.
A National Transport Authority (NTA) ‘time-lapse’ videos claiming to show chronic tailbacks “didn’t bear any relation” to realisty
Jim Cumiskey writes:
Have you seen what the NTA is up to with BusConnects. They’ve been forced to remove three misleading videos from their PR campaign which give a false impression of traffic volumes.
This outfit is sounding increasingly like several other central Government organizations. LaLa land planning, total disconnect from public needs, rotten budgeting, poor consultation, false info….
Anyone?
NTA removes misleading videos from BusConnects campaign (Irish Times)
From top: Garda HQ in Phoenix Park; Paul Williams and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris
“What we know so far is that the specially adapted Range Rover, belonging to the PSNI’s close protection team, was delivering Drew Harris to the Phoenix Park following a visit to the North on Monday, 25 March.The Northern vehicle was driving in convoy behind an ERU vehicle that met the escort at the Border.
After the ERU vehicle drove in, the quick-thinking garda on sentinel duty was alarmed.
After all, she had spotted an unknown Northern-registered car driving towards the gates and immediately moved to activate the security bollard which is designed to prevent a suspect vehicle entering the complex.
…Drew Harris is still very much settling into his role as commissioner and his relationship with many of his top management staff is described as purely professional.
But despite any initial embarrassment about the actual incident, Mr Harris should in fact be congratulating the garda on the gate for her quick, clear-headed reaction to an alarming situation.”
Paul Williams, Irish Independent this morning
However…
“There was no security incident at Garda HQ on 25 March 2019. A newly installed bollard malfunctioned and caught the underside of the vehicle the Commissioner was travelling in. This happened at a walking pace. No vehicles were flipped.
The malfunction was quickly fixed and vehicular traffic went in and out of Garda HQ as normal that day. As per our previous statement, normal movement procedures were followed in relation to the Commissioner.”
Garda Press Office statement this afternoon.
Someone’s flipping fibbing.
YOU must decide.
Yesterday: What The Flip Is Going On?
Having sold Americans the seductive and conspiratorial notion that the man in the oval office was a compromised foreign agent, now comes a moment of reckoning for the US media…
Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post on Trump, Russia, and the collapse of the collusion narrative – the theory that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to hijack the 2016 US presidential elections.
Previously: I’m Gonna Set It Straight, This Watergate
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg will meet three Irish members of an international committee targetting the spread of online misinformation in Dublin.
TDs Hildegarde Naughton, James Lawless, and Eamon Ryan of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and Fake News will meet with the social media site’s founder tomorrow.
The Irish politicians will raise a number of concerns, including; the regulation of social media, transparency in political advertising and the safety of young people and vulnerable adults.
Mark Zuckerberg to meet with ‘fake news’ committee in Dublin (Breakingnews.ie)
Pic: Techmeme
Meanwhile…
Why are so many newspapers giving Mark Zuckerberg the platform for a self-serving piece? Interview him by all means but don’t facilitate his propaganda when Facebook has done so much damage to news and real journalism. That’s just giving him an unchallenged PR platform.
— Matt Cooper (@cooper_m) March 30, 2019
Tin-foil wrapped coverage of alleged Trump/Russia collusion in The Irish Times from last August (top) and last December (above).
A short two-minute video for those of you in the media pitifully insisting that no media reckoning is needed and journalists performed beautifully, soberly and responsibly throughout this whole saga: pic.twitter.com/PF5s2kTcYA
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 25, 2019
“Russiagate” has been a news media obsession since Trump’s victory in November 2016.
The nonpartisan Tyndall Report pegged the total amount of time devoted to the story on the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS and NBC last year at 332 minutes, making it the second-most covered story after the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
According to a count by the Republican National Committee released Sunday, The Post, the New York Times, CNN.com and MSNBC.com have written a combined 8,507 articles mentioning the special counsel’s investigation.
The cable news networks, particularly CNN and MSNBC, have added hundreds of hours of discussion about the topic, too.
The story undoubtedly was an important factor in shaping voters’ perceptions before the 2018 midterm election, in which Democrats won control of the House.
But the conclusion of the inquiry has put a question once hazily debated into sharp focus: Did the mainstream news media mislead?
Only YOU can decide.
Conclusion of Mueller probe raises anew criticisms of coverage (Washington Post)
Saturday: ‘Closing In’
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This afternoon.
Mughsot and booking information for American television star Jussie Smollett, who has been charged with staging a fake racial assault on himself by two Trump supporters involving bleach and a noose.
The 36-year-old actor is suspected of paying two Nigerian brothers to stage the attack. They are both co-operating with the investigation, police say.
He’s in so much trouble.
Empire star Jussie Smollett ‘staged hoax attack over salary’ (BBC)
Tuesday: Hate That