U.K. cultural and political pundit Russell Brand sits down for an interview with U.S. Twitter File journalist Matt Taibbi, to discuss Taibbi’s experience with his recent congressional testimony, the advancement of the ‘Restrict Act’, and new revelations still coming from his exploration into the Twitter communication files. {Direct Rumble Link Here]
After some general overview and sense about the issues in/around congress, at 06:45 of the interview Taibbi begins to highlight new information he is discovering about how the Aspen Institute group was organizing, discussing and planning a larger objective about controlling any/all information on the internet.
Mr. Taibbi notes how the network of aligned NGO’s, government agencies and policy advisors from within the Aspen Institute were communicating with Big Tech about the best plans for both European and U.S. government regulation on speech and information on the internet. As Matt notes, the senate ‘Restrict Act’ and the EU ‘Digital Services Act’ carry commonalities of purpose. Additionally, as they government overseers trigger Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do the search work within content, the mechanisms within the machines will all deploy similar ideological algorithms. WATCH:
Nice touch putting the Crimson Kenyan’s stamp of tyranny, misery, mayhem, suffering, destruction and death on the boot-tread!
Smile while you still can
First time I watched that all the way through. OMG! There’s farrrrrr more creepy touching children clips than I ever knew existed. Our Pederast in Chief must have assaulted every child ever brought within arms reach. Which brings to mind … who? is responsible for composing all these photo shoots that bring kids within touching distance of this creep? It’s got to be intentional.
It does seem that way.
Somehow before computers and smart phones we managed to communicate and exchange ideas and argue and discuss and plan and scheme and plot and design and even act.
Goodness, perhaps we will have to go back to those primitive times in the 60’s and 70’s and well even in the 50’s people had brains and knew how to communicate.
It amazes me how hooked people are into these electronic devices. So, when the internet goes down and the satellite GPS signal stops working and smart phones stall out, there sure will be a lot of lost souls wondering around.
Thankfully I was alive before all this stuff and I know how to use a map and compass to find out where I am and I even look at street signs so I know what street I am on. I know how to read and write and think…critically…and analyze ideas and diagram a sentence and do math in my head. I feel like I am light years ahead of all these young’uns….poor lost souls who don’t even know how to cook, they just know how to turn on a microwave and order a pizza for takeout.
It’s much harder to censor individuals and individual communication, and wow, you could hand out information sheets telling people what is going on at least in your mind. You could hand write them if you had to, that is if you went to school when they taught you how to write.
I swear, the human race has gone backwards…
Exactly!! And in order to stall out the forward march of the machines, we can all just turn OFF all the devices!
The term ‘samizdat’ comes to mind.
Yep shut em down. Read the Bible! Now that is one sweet book! And not online either. Pick up a real book, open those pages and read.
Yep… begin by throwing out the cancer causing cell phone.
I don’t own one. I use an old PC that I never update
Well.. you’re only half correct. What we mistook for “real” news back in the days of printing presses, paper and ink, radios, boob tubes and Hollyweird movies was just as *fake* as our mainstream media is today, if not more so. You can wax nostalgic all you want about the exact means of communication, but the ENEmedia of today was just as busy churning out pure propaganda back then as they are right now.
The only difference today is that the internet affords more content to be accessed in real time by virtually everyone on the planet. And this means the usual suspects are having a much harder time fooling the masses.
So the answer is not as clear cut as you would imagine. What you remember as the good ole days were certainly not all they seemed to be at the time. Censorship is censorship, and going back to the days of smoke signals just to sidestep Big Brother won’t begin to solve that problem.
I don’t believe it was all lies like now, somewhere around John Kennedy we had a turn and it was addressed by Kennedy and he was killed for it. It grew do to lack of oversight from our worthless government, especially congress.
And ourselves.
It grew from an influx of Bolsheviks, mostly those expelled from Russia
The Frankfurt school
I think this is where conservatives go so wrong. Look at the lies and propaganda leading to the American involvement in WW1. Look at the lies propagated with the Spanish-American War. The media has always latched itself onto the regime – and done the regime’s bidding. It’s just more obvious now because the internet has afforded a touch of sunlight to pierce through the “authorities'”clouds. It wasn’t better “back in the day. “
Yellow Journalism……..Pulitzer and Hearst. And you are correct. I contend much worse back in the day. Only newspapers and eventually weekly periodicals which have now almost completely disappeared. Much easier then to control thinking.
Were you alive during that period? I suspect not. Further, I suspect that all you know about Kennedy is what has been spun by his family, and adoring press, and those who would oppress you.
I lived through that era as an adult. I remember when Truman was sworn in. Kennedy was a worthless, lying, debauched, cowardly piece of shit. If you read his history critically with an open mind you might discover the truth about him. Nikita Khrushchev met with him face to face, sized him up for what he was (a weakling without spine) and put missiles in Cuba certain that no harm would come to the USSR for it.
Kennedy almost caused World War III. Only Khrushchev prevented it. He could have wiped out DC, NY and most of the Eastern part of the US and didn’t. That is what kennedy REALLY did, not what his biographers have told you to believe.
No, but without the mass communication, it is harder to promulgate propaganda.
Remove the tv while you are at it. I know from current personal experience, that many people who support Trump, do not have, or watch tv. Also back when tv first started the educational system was much better and parents spent more time with their kids. And with tv, parents watched it with us…and discussed it with us, especially the news, which I agree, was also propaganda, but we still had functioning brains, better education, cleaner food, fewer vaccines, and a stay at home mom, which I know is not always possible today except if you all didn’t need your own phone, tv, computer and car might still be possible.
Actually, since it seems the elites want to take us back to the stone ages, a positive part of that is that it will be harder to brainwash us.
One more point; no they are having an easier time not a harder time fooling people. They can reach everyone, censor dissenting opinions, and most people just fall for it because, if you follow my train of thought, people have been dumbed down and they receive the same communication and their brains cannot think it through.
I cannot believe how many people came up to me during 2020 campaign on the town square where I stood with my Trump flag, and asked me who to vote for or why they should vote for Trump. I would respond but realized they could not analyze and think. Their brains did not know how.
Also, I am going back further to the American Revolution…how did they communicate? And I know, only about a third of the population supported the revolution, so how did they communicate? You do not need a computer or any electronic device to communicate.
I agree with a lot of what you say. I never opened a social media account. And I rarely watch TV, especially anything that passes for “news” these days. Almost never go to movies (I made an exception for ‘The Chosen,’ because it’s a crowd-funded production separate from Hollyweird).
I just believe that the ignorant masses will remain ignorant whether they are glued to the internet, to the TV or to the newspaper. This is because they are followers, and followers are too easily led astray.
Until we plug into God, we are as lost sheep.
My friends tell me they watch The Chosen because they want to get to know Jesus better. I tell them it’s like getting married and taking someone else on your honeymoon. The Bible warns us to not add anything to it and not to take anything away from it.
Two groups of people out there: The “I read the book but didn’t see the movie” people and the “I saw the movie but didn’t read the book” people.
Nobody in either group will ever cross over. (Footnote: the “I did both” people are counted in the first group)
I completely agree
I have not had a TV for more than 20 years
Well said.
The ONE saving grace was that the propaganda was limited and illegal until Barry “0bama” Soetoro altered the Smith-Mundt Act that prohibited the government from using propaganda on the USA and it’s citizens.
We DID connect without all this technology. I was 66 years old and remember a time before iPhone, computers etc. get up, get out and meet your neighbors, make new friends, join a wonderful church. It’s all doable, we just have to get back to life and I mean real life, instead of all this virtual nonsense.
“When freedom of speech is destroyed, liberty is dissolved, and tyranny is built on its ruins”. B. Franklin.
This was long before electronic devices, the danger is always there.
Yep! I wish the internet was never invented.
Flip phone ok.
Live on the real world and not a virtual manipulated one.
I value electronic internet communications. It makes “my reach farther than my grasp.”
Well, look on the brighter side. Being within the influence of that giant fusion reactor we all spin around, humanity might just go back into time .. say like 16th century time (if not the early holocene), should an intense CME swing in our direction. No ‘canned sunshine’ need be flung
What an irony That would be.
I watch his show from time to time, he’s silly, but quick on the uptick, and most important he’s reaching young people.
He’s doing damage to the cabal, therefore he’s my friend.
Thanks Russell & Matt.
I was born in the U.K. and emigrated as an adult, just yesterday and childhood friend and me chatted on the phone for an age.
Neil Oliver and Russell Brand are becoming truly powerful forces in the freedom movement throughout the English speaking world.
What’s particularly galling to the “ elite” is that both Oliver and Brand were or maybe still are left wing/ socialists.
Thanks again to Sundance for making this available to the broader audience.
Cheers!
When I was a kid we didn’t hate each other over politics, at the end of the day we were all Americans. These folks are beginning to understand if we lose our 1st Amendment, they’ll be out of a job, but instead taking a principled stance, or is it self-preservation? Either way.
They both get high marks from me.
If they were or still are left wing socialists then they must suffer from willful ignorance and/or severe cognitive dissonance.
I perceive the two as classic liberals. True leftists are vehemently against free speech, imo.
It seems to me, that a positive (for US) development has been gradually growing, and is now EMERGING, of “leftists” finally beginning to speak out.
Understand, the LAST thing most of them will red-pill on, is DJT.
But, red-pill is a PROCESS.
Leftists intentionally attempt to control those individuals and Institutions that both reflect AND SHAPE Public Opinion.
They expend an awful lot of their energy, focused on Public Opinion.
Lawfare, for example is mostly pursueing cases in Court, which they have little chance of ultimately prevailing in, in order to generate HEADLINES, i. Public opinion.
Anyway, we are now seeing the emergence of leftists opinion makers/shapers, calling out the false narratives of our enemy.
Dersh, Brand, Taibbi, Rogan, Maher, and others are sticking their necks out, and sticking it to the enemy.
Remember Chris Mathews, host of “Hardball” and beloved of the left?
He gave a 2-5 minute monologue, saying “Yes I am a proud liberal, but I am not a COMMUNIST, and going on to describe the horrors of Conmunism.
He was off the air, within two weeks, and no one has heard from him, again.
That was only around two years ago. You know these liberal talking heads that stray from the reservation,are promptly given the “Trump treatment” of harassment, persecution, etc. …
Taibbi describes some of it, IIRC Rogan was threatened with de-platforming, etc.
WE can NOT “reach” our libtard, Vax obsessed former friends and relatives, or persuade them to read here.
But, THESE ‘off the reservation’s liberals CAN, and it’s a good thing.
You don’t HAVE to “like” them, to “like” what they say.
“The enemy of my enemy…” Woody Harelson monologue on SNL. It pierced the dark veil. The liberals at home watching scratch their heads and ask “Is Woody a Nazi, white supremacist…?” As their pea brains malfunction and smoke from their ears…as this Forbidden! Put their masks on and have a group hug.
Or the expression, “You’re liberal up and until you’ve been mugged by reality”
This is good stuff and we need more.
After recovering ever-so-slightly from the PTSD of 2020, J6, mandates, etc. …. I thought to myself that nothing will change until liberals want it changed, especially when they control media, elections, etc. Thank God for those speaking up. I pray it will spread like wildfire.
Truth Social uses A.I. to filter speech. I have had many innocuous mundane run of the mill articles “hidden” because the A.I. has determined words like masturbate, transgender and child sex are not suitable for public consumption. A.I is already proving a headache for social media users of Truth Social. Wait until it’s a part of the Internet of Things!
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Every single device, since almost the begining of what we call The Internet, has filters. If there were no filters, we would be inundated with really nasty crud, and then we’d be mad about that. There’s a huge difference between filtering out pornographic and violent content, and limiting “speech”.
AI is indeed “A”–but it is not “I” on its own. It is software. Nothing more.
Considering the ignorance and unthinking status of so many, I suspect that a lot of people are thinking it really is like a God-created brain that initiates and evaluates words and thoughts.
It is software. Like I said, certainly artificial but also, certainly not intelligent.
Programmable software.
Yes, it’s dangerous, like any other well-developed weapon, but it is no more intelligent on its own than all those guns which are (apparently) running around shooting people.
I do not accept the language. Artificial–yes. Intelligent–no.
I prefer;
“Artificial Intelligence?,..yes and no.
Yrs its artificial, and no, its NOT intelligent, lol.
garbage in, garbage out applies to it, just like any program.
in written communication, you can simply not write the vowels, and
mst ppl cn sly fgr t wht t sys.
a human brain can, in seconds figure out where the vowels go, and which vowel should be used where.
AI, not so much.
(most people can figure out what it says) it gets easier with practice.
you might want to start practicing this, lol.
sly?
I wonder what the “esteemed” Congress critter committee members will do when the panelists finally respond to their childish narcissistic behavior with robust laughter?
Interesting what Russell said about the EU and how free speech will be coded as “hate speech”.
It’s already happening.
In France, there is an actual law which makes it a criminal offence to call elected officials names on social media.
A woman has been arrested for calling the French “Dear Leader” Macron “garbage” or “trash”. If convicted, she’ll spend a year in prison and owe a €15,000 fine.
Is that where we are headed in this country? It certainly looks like it.
Thou shalt not criticize your ” betters”, tucked in the regulatory bill somewhere on page 3,245 as a footnote to a footnote.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11917739/Woman-faces-criminal-trial-France-referring-President-Macron-garbage.html
That’s why I’m getting it all out of my system now:
FJB
FJB
FJB
FJB
FJB…
LOL
I was waiting for someone to follow up. I should have guessed it would be you, BFAW. Very well done, my patriotic and forthright friend!
Actually, a good example.
FJB, chanted by 10,000 fans in a stadium, is very similar to the “singing revolution” where the people openly defied the Soviet Union backed governments prohibitions, by doing it en mass.
Those who crave power, and are threatened by individual liberty, can never have “enough” control, and new technology doesn’t change that, it just means people will come up with new ways to thwart them.
No wonder Paris is now burning,… poor L’ete C’est Moi Macron must be vexed beyond breath.
L’ete? Il est plus comme l’hiver de la Republique!
“Dear Leader” is a crime??
Well, I guess “Mein Fuhrer” is right out, then!
I always get a kick out of The Gipper Lives’ moniker, Der Nipplefuhrer!
I love Mark Steyn’s moniker for Biden…
Herr Groppenfürher
Schön!
A real wordsmith with a sharp edge is our Mark. Yes, it is.
Now that’s funny right there! Lol lol lol! Herr groppenfuhrer! Too funny. Monday morning laugh out loud here in Pittsburgh! Thanks for that!!!!!!
Language is a wonderful tool. Euphemisms abound. I’m sure we could come with something that wouldn’t overtly offend.
The Left do it all the time.
We might have to send our very own WORDMAN to find the mot juste. You know…helping our French brothers and sisters out.
Périsse Président Poubelle!
Works for me, Maquis, though I suspect if you said it over there you’d be joining that unfortunate woman in the pokey.
I suspect (hope) with this totalitarian move, every mother’s son will be posting the same.
How glorious would that be!
Let Them Eat Snark!
Hear, hear!! A hefty double helping of it.
Et alors, une nouveau parti politique est former: PPP, pronouncer, PAY-PAY-PAY.
Parfait!
Laws of that type are best defeated by mass defiance. Lean into the attempts to criminalize speech. ALL should call elected officials names on French social media. They only have power when their intimidation works. Safety in numbers. We cannot let them pick us off one by one, frightening the herd into submission. If one is guilty, all must be guilty.
This is how you defeat authoritarianism. It is the only way:
Stalag 17 – Step Forward
Thinking now of Solzhenitsyn writing about what might have happened had those picked off one by one grabbed whatever weapon was to hand, no matter how inadequate, and taken out each Stalinist as they came. Stood together instead of simply submitting.
So, you say “Macron? Why bless his little heart!”
And it slips right past the AI, and even a human can’t allege it is “hate speech” and yet all who read it, knows what it means.
There ARE ways around this foolishness, and while it shouldn’t be necessary, when it comes to it, their wall will be more like Swiss cheese.
Yes, exactly like that. I’m sure the French will figure it out. Macron will need his own internet Bletchley to decipher.
Or else, and more likely, the French will simply ignore the petty, despotic “law” and carry on.
I don’t believe given the past weeks, they are in any mood to obey.
Je respect le peuple français. Je ne respect pas President espèce de Macron.
Her comments about Macron seem pretty mild to me.
The Deep State (or whatever one wants to call it/them) is Public Enemy Number One to not just America, but the world. It is now the Evil Empire. It has gone from Dr Jeckle to Mr. Hyde, from Lon Cheney to the Werewolf.
The Aliens in They Live were a lot more benevolent than the Deep State is today
I always equated the very beginning of the movie at the construction site, discussing all the jobs drying up, as a coincidence or not of John Carpenter predicting the companies leaving due to the Council On Foreign Relations Free Trade deals that were looming on the horizon. All the poverty of the regular people, homelessness, food scarcity etc
I also found it quite telling who and in what positions the aliens were in. Their were also drones in the movie, long before that tech was made public. There was also mention of the aliens changing the climate to suit them. Think “Geo-engineering”. John Carpenter nailed it. My favorite is the following image. Be well sir
Using the premise that K Street writes legislation, then who on K Street wrote the Restrict Act?
Big Tech sure didn’t. They’re just government lackeys. IC community would be the likely choice, but talk about conflict of interest and moral hazard.
So, who actually wrote the damn act? It sure as hell wasn’t Sugar Britches Graham. He didn’t even know his name was on it when questioned.
My guess would be the global elite in WEF who ‘wrote’ the New/ One World Order are the same ones dictating UN policies such as Open Borders Pact, TPP and FJ Biden’s Restrict Act.
I believe that intentionally permitting *foreign* enemy combatants to destroy our Constitutional Republic is also known as TREASON.
To Build Back Better they must Flatten Freedom First.
I imagine that AI will eventually be used not just to censor communication on the internet but also to alter it, like Winston Smith sitting in his cubicle, at the Ministry of Truth, changing the real wording and pictures into a government-approved “reality.”
You will type and send one message and the AI will intercept it, reword it, and send it out as if it was written by you.
My phone already does that, can’t count the number of times I have been surprised to see what I sent.
“You will type and send one message and the AI will intercept it, reword it, and send it out as if it was written by you.”
While it sends some unpleasant people to say hello to you.
Twitter invented
Public: “oh great, now everyone can say what they want publicly”
Gummint: “oh sh#t, now everyone can say what they want publicly”
This Twitter reveal is quite an eye opener! Now, the treasonous cabal is desperate to put a lid back on it!
>>”Taibbi begins to highlight new information he is discovering about how the Aspen Institute group was organizing, discussing and planning a larger objective about controlling any/all information on the internet.”
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“…was…”?
Has this plan been scrapped and replaced with SB 686 then?
First comes the funding, that says “HERE is what we want to DO”,..
Then comes the think tanks, brain storming the DETAILS, of who, what, how, where and why, in order to achieve the objective.
Then comes the writing of the legislation, and bribery of all elements to get it passed.
Senate R’s get THEIR cut, Senate D’s theirs, House R’s, House D’s, then the WH.
WHAT Taibbi is describing at Aspen, was the fetus at two weeks, SB 686 is the newborn baby.
Twins or triplets …
in vitro surrogate
Up here in Chinada, Big Chief Spendy McBlackface Hairdo pushed the Censorship Bill through with no Committee time or Debate. Blackface’s FILTHY LIBERAL government is propped up by the NDP who are led by an Arrogant & Ignorant Controlled -Jagmeet Singh
I SMELL A FILTHY LIBERAL WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY. UK, and USA are all weaponizing every part of Glorious Government with these Censorship Bills. Josh Hawley outed himself. With help from Rand McConnell.
Big Chief Spendy McBlackface Hairdo is hilariously accurate. It’s weird how all of Western Civilization’s governments have all been taken over by the same agenda at the same time. Meh, probably just coincidence.
20 years in the hole
FJB
might as well enjoy it while it lasts
Because I can’t stop.
I contacted both of my Senators about that Restrict Act last week. So glad word about what it really was intended to do got out.
We are so badly served by the Government.
I want to be left alone. The government should be as small as possible. Most importantly media should not be controlled by a organization like the Council On Foreign Relations which controls “our’ media. They should also be out of education. They should be the ones running a gold/silver standard currency not Fiat currency to a private corporation. Feel free to add if you like
Motte and Bailey response:
“So you’re saying you no longer want roads and fire departments, then?”
Russell Brand is an acquired taste, but it was good to listen to Matt Taibbi.
I was afraid it’d be a real “debriefing” ⊙﹏⊙
I wonder who are the “flaggers” on Twitter.
“trusted flaggers” I believe he said. “I would trust a PEDOPHILE, before I would trust simeone who described themself as a “trusted flagger”!
Aquired taste, way too much energy, but truth is truth, and he has a large following so more power to him.
Just the mention of the Aspen Institute brings a shudder. Backed by the Crown billions, which was one of Obama’s earliest big-bucks backers (remember the “private jet controversy” during Obama’s run to the White House?), the Aspen people are ordinary-American-haters of the first order.
Long before the WEF was a thing, Aspen was working hard towards the one-world, new world order.
Wasn’t “prinse” Harry on the Aspen Institute’s “commission on Information Disorder”? While the disorder might be appropriate, I am sure Harold, who could not be bothered with university, couldn’t tell information disorder, from information order or re-order. The Obama thread is interesting, since Obama had Harold speak at his first Obama foundation summit, because who knows the challenges of inner city youth of color more than the sixth in line to the British crown? Clown world, indeed.
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Here is the language of “The Bill” SB 686 Read all 55 pages but pay special attention beginning at page 45 [Judicial Review]
#21 ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL REVIEW .
Not withstanding any other provision of law, actions taken by
the President and the Secretary, and the findings of the
President and the Secretary, under this Act shall not be
subject to administrative review or judicial review in any
Federal court, except as otherwise provided in this section
Actions taken by the Secretary under this Act shall not
be subject to sections 551, 553 through 559, and 701
through 707 of title 5, United States Code
Also this;
EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION .—The United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shall
have exclusive jurisdiction over claims arising under this
Act against the United States, any executive department
or agency, or any component or official of an executive
department or agency, subject to review by the Supreme
Court of the United States under section 1254 of title 28
United States Code.
This so-called Bill is pure tyranny against the citizens of the United States once again disguised as the Gubmint “protecting” the people.
FYI , ran across this article and I thought it might be worth sharing.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/what-is-mysterious-aspen-institute-and-why-did-it-hold-hunter-biden-exercise/
Right back to Bill Gates..
Wish I could meet that man or a few others.
I would love to express my appreciation and take one for the team.
Maybe you should learn to play bridge. I met Bill Gates once at a Bridge tournament in Sacramento CA about 10 years ago, before I knew he was evil incarnate. I sat at a card table with him and three other people. And played 3 hands against him, for about 15 minutes or so. One of his legs never stopped moving, like a tic. His partner was Sharon Osgood, who he hired to play at tournaments with him because she is a pro and can win. I was surprised at how little he knew. The pros carry their clients. He and Warren Buffet each hired pros to play with them and they used to go and play team games together, get their name in lights. I never saw their security but I’m sure they were everywhere. Bill Gates carried on a conversation with my partner and I when his partner Sharon left the table. It was the end of the session and we were all waiting for results.
I look back on that short period of time and wonder what I would say to him now if I had the chance.
censorship doesn’t work so quit while you’re behind lol
perhaps we need to revert to communications like before Al Gore invented the internet (he never did actually say that, but it was fun). We need to go down a level and leave the state out of our communications. I still do not use the twitfacedgooglytickytacky social data stealing control applications.
No bias here, Commission on information disorder Aspen institute
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2021/11/18/642743.htm
Misinformation is jeopardizing efforts to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges, be it climate change, COVID-19 or political polarization, according to a new report from the Aspen Institute that’s backed by prominent voices in media and cybersecurity.
Recommendations in the 80-page analysis call for new regulations on social media platforms; stronger, more consistent rules for misinformation “superspreaders” who amplify harmful falsehoods and new investments in authoritative journalism and organizations that teach critical thinking and media literacy.
The report is the product of the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder, a 16-person panel that includes experts on the internet and misinformation, as well as prominent names such as Prince Harry, the duke of Sussex.
“Hundreds of millions of people pay the price, every single day, for a world disordered by lies,” reads the report’s introduction, written by the commission’s three co-chairs: journalist Katie Couric, former White House cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs and Rashad Robinson, president of the organization Color of Change.
Specifically, the report calls for a national strategy for confronting misinformation, and urges lawmakers to consider laws that would make social media platforms more transparent and accountable — to officials, researchers and consumers.
The authors of the report blame the proliferation of misinformation on factors including the rapid growth of social media, a decline in traditional local journalism and a loss of trust in institutions.
Falsehoods can prove deadly, as shown by the conspiracy theories and bogus claims about COVID-19 and vaccines that have set back attempts to stop the coronavirus. The report’s authors said misinformation is proving just as damaging when it comes to faith in elections or efforts to fight climate change.
During a briefing on the report’s findings Monday, Couric, Krebs and Robinson stressed that every American has a role to play in fighting misinformation, by reviewing where they get their information, by ensuring that they don’t spread harmful falsehoods, and by fighting the polarization that fuels misinformation.
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/commission-on-information-disorder-final-report/
How much money does the Aspen Institute get from ‘us’ – via legislation no one reads – so they can suppress us?
Well no wonder why Harry called the First Amendment “bonkers”
He should have been tossed back to his home kingdom when he denounced our US Constitution. Hopefully, they will release his visa application soon.
Great share! Thanks for posting that.
My favorite is Jason Whitlock. He can pull in a great crowd of people that feel his way.
Take all the support from Russel Brand and his crowd of people as well.
Number matter a bunch.
Can I be hopeful?
Russel Brand and Matt T are getting out front of the Restrict Act. Better than politicians, these two are authoritative and have reach. Aspen Institute is some scary stuff.
I wonder what Adidas thinks about Matt Taibbi wearing their logos. LOL My favorite thing to watch is a liberal let the sunlight in.
The are desperate to find a way to get the internet genie back into the bottle.
Between monitoring our every thought with AI and quietly inserting mRNA into our food supply, you’d think there would be a single Republican out there – just ONE!!!! – willing to press charges against these criminally insane tyrants.
But no. We must endure more weeks, months, years, decades of “waiting”.
Waiting for what ?!?!?!?!?!?!
While I’m mostly a fan of his somewhat red pilled world view, I’m not a fan of his verbose delivery where he presents the longest run-on sentences/paragraphs I’ve ever heard at the tempo of a cocaine addict. He talks more than the persons he interviews.