Democrats have no qualms when it comes to spreading lies, even when those lies are effortlessly disproven. Take Kamala Harris’ recent tweet as an example:
Now what did Donald Trump actually say?
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When asked about the issue of abortion during the first presidential debate against Joe Biden on June 27, Trump clearly stated he would not sign a federal ban on abortion and would instead leave it up to the states. If you don’t believe us, go watch the footage.
The X community was quick to fact-check Harris, pointing to numerous news outlets — most of them liberal — that accurately reported Trump’s answer.
If that wasn’t humiliating enough for the VP, Elon Musk then reposted Harris’ tweet with the following comment:
“Do you see why the system has tried to take out Elon?” asks Dave Rubin. “He is able to help us debunk this nonsense in real time.”
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Socialist magazine Jacobin was lambasted by what was dubbed the "Hiroshima" of community notes on X by critics on social media.
The official account for Jacobin was criticizing wages paid to Walmart employees when someone did the math and figured out that the magazine likely pays its writers far less on average.
"Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps," read the post by the socialist outlet.
'This is the Hiroshima of community notes.'
The article chastised Walmart for posting a first quarter profit of $5.1 billion even as it was named as one of top employers whose workers rely on public assistance to get by.
The community note on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, quickly went viral.
"Walmart non-corporate Associates’ average hourly wage is $17.50/hour with full-time benefits. Jacobin pays writers $0.07/word, so a Jacobin writer would have to write 250 words an hour continuously to make the same wage as a Walmart Associate, but without benefits," the note read.
According to a Copyblogger report, paying seven cents per word lands a Jacobin writer squarely in the middle of average freelance rates for a beginning writer, and far less than that of the average intermediate and experienced writer.
Others on X bashed Jacobin over the poor wages it paid.
"Ouch @jacobin this is where you pay someone .07 cents a word to write a piece to defend yourself ! Right after your mom makes you hot pockets in the basement I guess at these wages," read one popular response.
"Socialism in a nutshell. Complain bitterly about one system. Propose a system that's an order of magnitude worse," read another reply.
"The beauty of this community note is that it isn't saying Walmart is good. The point is that, if you take as true that Walmart pays its workers poorly, Jacobin pays their writers even worse," said another detractor.
"This is the Hiroshima of community notes," said social media autodidact David Burge.
Even Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas mocked Jacobin over the note.
"The most spectacular community note in history," he posted.
The note garnered more than 4.4 million views on X.
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CBS News' "60 Minutes" recently boosted the grievances of activists who fancy themselves online narrative curators, including so-called "misinformation expert" Kate Starbird, the cofounder of the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public.
The liberal news network framed Starbird as a defender of truth and a victim of conservative criticism but failed to mention critical biographic information about the so-called expert, namely that she's a partisan who has taken money from the Biden administration and is named as a defendant in an ongoing legal battle over censorship.
"60 Minutes" introduced Starbird as "a professor at the University of Washington, a former professional basketball player, and a leader of a misinformation research group created ahead of the 2020 election."
The dribbling academic complained to host Lesley Stahl that X has not responded to or heeded more than 30% of her censorial outfit's suggestions — "and on the majority of those, they put labels."
Additionally, she claimed that conservatives disproportionately push "misinformation" online, insinuating further that they have a stake in combating her fact-checking efforts and have sought to intimidate both her and her team.
"This campaign against you is meant to discredit you so we won't believe you," said Stahl.
"Absolutely. And it's interesting that the people that pushed voter fraud lies are some of the same people that are trying to discredit researchers that are trying to understand the problem," said Starbird.
"60 Minutes" leaned on Starbird's claims in the episode to later suggest that while conservatives bemoan censorship of speech online, they simultaneously seek to "chill the research" of benevolent academics such as Starbird.
X, formerly Twitter, only responded to 30% of the notes from researchers flagging misinformation in posts, says Kate Starbird, the leader of a misinformation research group. https://t.co/yCfxH64hAU— (@)
The liberal news outfit neglected to mention that Starbird is a radical partisan, a Biden donor, and a recipient of Biden administration grants who has collaborated with the Biden Department of Homeland Security on efforts to shut down speech deemed undesirable by the powers that be.
The Daily Caller highlighted that Starbird ran lead on a narrative-curing project that secured $2.25 million from the National Science Foundation in August 2021. The stated purpose of the initiative was to "study ways to apply collaborative, rapid-response research to mitigate online disinformation."
Upon receipt of the grant, Starbird said in a statement, "Working to advance scientific understanding of online disinformation, this research will develop and evaluate 'rapid response' methods for studying and communicating about disinformation at a sophistication and pace on par with the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of the challenge."
Starbird was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed last year by Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit and Jill Hines, codirector of the conservative Health Freedom Louisiana group, whose criticism of mask wearing was suppressed on Facebook. Starbird is also referenced in Murthy v. Missouri, the case concerning the Biden administration's efforts to have Americans censored online now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hoft and Hines' complaint alleged that Starbird and other personnel from her organization were involved in "probably the largest mass-surveillance and mass-censorship program in American history — the so-called 'Election Integrity Partnership' and 'Virality Project.'"
The complaint further claimed that Starbird's UW lab secured the aforementioned $2.25 million grant "just months after Starbird's lab helped censor the Biden Administration's political adversary during the 2020 election."
Starbird served as a member of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. She apparently also ran lead on the CISA task force "Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation and Disinformation."
CISA, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, is accused along with other prongs of the Biden administration in Murthy v. Missouri of violating Americans' First Amendment rights online.
Last year, Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, shared a video from Starbird detailing how to kill or curate narratives on Twitter.
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In her interview with "60 Minutes," Starbird regurgitated many of the talking points advanced by the Biden administration in its fight to keep leaning on social media companies to censor dissenting voices online.
"It's interesting that the people that pushed voter fraud lies are some of the same people that are trying to discredit researchers that are trying to understand the problem," said Starbird.
The bespectacled researcher is not only sympathetic to the Democratic administration's clampdown on undesirable speech online but also a fan of the man in the White House.
The Daily Caller noted that Starbird donated to then-candidate Joe Biden's presidential campaign in 2020.
Extra to signing checks for the Biden campaign and the Biden Victory Fund, Starbird has poured cash into ActBlue and other leftist causes, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The Caller indicated that "60 Minutes" did not respond to requests for comment.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) responded to Starbird's interview, writing, "Missouri v. Biden exposed this. 'Misinformation Researchers' are part of the Vast Censorship Enterprise. No tax dollars to these wannabe authoritarians."
Trump advisor Stephen Miller's America First Legal noted, "Irony Alert: CBS is guilty of rank disinformation in this interview. They use Kate Starbird as their 'expert' ... but they don't tell you that Starbird is the defendant in our lawsuit alleging a vast scheme to silence speech and deprive Americans of their fundamental civil rights."
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Part two of an investigation into how the Harris-Walz campaign is manipulating social media sites to artificially boost their popularity, spread election disinformation, and skirt election laws.
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