Yes, I know we could write a book, but essentially what is wrong with the Internet is the way we use it. The public changed has the way it uses the Internet to the benefit of a few monopoly tech companies and those that want to spread disinformation because laziness
Continue readingTag: fake news
Views from the Beltline: Kudos to Maria Ressa
Among the numerous seriously unpleasant men leading countries in the world today, Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, must be included. Perhaps his most odious policy is his support for the extrajudicial killings of “undesirables.” When mayor of the city of Davao, he was accused by the Philippine Commission on
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The ACLU Has Gone Around the Bend
Welcome to the world of male-centric alternative facts. The ACLU have well and truly lost their grip on reality and are inhabiting the same world now as Donald Trump when it come to ‘fake news’ and the willing repetition of falsehood. Welcome to 2021. 🙁
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pretty Basic Stuff
But how much better off everyone would be if they just followed these basics: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Covid-19 Fake News
I received a lovely note the other day from a reader named Rose. While I am pleased she finds my blog a useful resource, I am also happy that she included a very pertinent link as an aide in spotting fake news, especially that involving our current pandemic. I shall
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Weapon Against Fake News
Living in an age when critical-thinking skills are increasingly hard to find, anything acting as a bulwark against the ignorance and stupidity that seems to inform public ‘debate’ is welcome. Natalie Turvey writes about a weapon that sounds promising. While misinformation, memes, clickbait and outright lies proliferate across our online
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Political Pornography of Andrew Scheer (Continued)
Like many religious fanatics Andrew Scheer never apologizes for anything.He can be caught lying over and over again, or smearing his opponents like he has done since the day he entered politics, but the word sorry never escapes his lips.So he has yet to apologize for this vile and fraudulent
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How The Cons And The Con Media Could Steal The Election
It was a chilling example of what might happen if Andrew Scheer's sinister Con cult is allowed to spread fake news, in a crude attempt to influence the result of the upcoming election.Just like Donald Trump and his henchmen did in the United States.An example that began with a truncated video clip
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Racist Cons and the Fake News Election
I spent most of the long weekend far from the madding crowd, recovering from a particularly gruelling exam.With only the sound of the rain beating down, and a passing yacht club boat chugging along to remind me that Spring had finally arrived.But what I was also reminded about was that there
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michelle Rempel and the Fake News Threat
The years since her beloved sugar daddy Stephen Harper left her, have not been kind to Michelle Rempel.Once she was a rising star, now not so much. Once the old men in the Con media used to fall over themselves trying to impress her. Now she has to work really hard to try
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is All That News Really Bad for You?
I did something unusual last Saturday. I took a whole day off social media.No blogging, no tweeting, no reaching into my pocket to pull out my mobile to check out what was happening in Canada or the world.Part of the reason I did that was because it was a beautiful day,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Update To A Marriage Made In Hell
It is good to know that the mainstream media is finally paying attention to the new technology that I outlined in yesterday’s post. And it seems that DARPA, a secretive Department of Defense agency, is building new software and artificial intelligence that will scan images to check for alterations in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Marriage Made In Hell
Now this is really disturbing. The Verge reports that Jordan Peele and Buzzfeed combined forces to make a fake Public Service Ad: Using some of the latest AI techniques, Peele ventriloquizes Barack Obama, having him voice his opinion on Black Panther (“Killmonger was right”) and call President Donald Trump “a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, and the Con Media Parrots
As we all know Donald Trump likes to rant and rave about the so-called "fake news," even though he produces ninety per cent of it himself.And it seems the right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group, that owns more TV stations in the U.S. than any other company, shares that view.And ordered its
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta New Democrats ponder new name to reflect 21st Century political realities
PHOTO: AlbertaPolitics.ca has received this exclusive image of a pin mocked up with a new logo reflecting one of the new names under serious consideration by Alberta’s NDP. Below: Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and B.C. NDP Premier John Horgan. April 1, 2018 Alberta’s New Democratic Party is considering a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The National Post Goes After Justin Trudeau. Again.
When I last checked out Paul Godfrey, Postmedia's Big Boss, he was cursing Justin Trudeau, and demanding money to bail out his sinking operation.And his frantic employees were running around, or splashing around, desperately trying to please him.Which is the only way to explain this story.Read more »
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Time To Be Atwitter?
I couldn’t help but think of this story concerning trolls spreading fake news about Black Panther-related violence when I saw this: Do I detect a pattern developing? Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Political Road Map: The Tyranny of the Triggered
Modern society has become an ever expanding landscape of polarization and finger pointing that not only undermines our ability to discuss, but corrodes at the very foundation of our democracy. The issue is so alarming, that it is no surprise when people feel out of place when it comes to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: In Praise Of Critical Thinking
Here are five resources that can aid us in what really is a life-long journey: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Anti-semitism, racism and other old white supremacist prejudices die hard
Anti-semitism, racism and other prejudices are on the rise in most established democracies. Still, silencing white supremacists on the Internet is counterproductive. It would only lead to more senseless acts violence similar to those perpetrated by Anders Breivik and Rhodesia-inspired Dylann Roof. The post Anti-semitism, racism and other old white
Continue reading