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As extreme weather increases, climate misinformation adapts DAVID KLEPPER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Climate scientists have warned for years that a warming planet would cause more extreme storms, like the one that walloped Texas in February, knocking out power and leaving millions in a deep freeze. Yet as the snow fell and the wind howled, some looked for other explanations for the storm and its resulting power outages. The conservative website The Gateway Pundit made the false claim that President Joe Biden's energy policies somehow prevented Texas pl...

by Michael K. Emerson / March 16th, 2021 On Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the Capitol Hill “insurrection”, the Parler social media app was the number #1 most downloaded app in the Apple App Store. On “January 10, 2021, Parler CEO John Matze announced the company had been ‘dropped by virtually all of its business alliances after Amazon, Apple and Google ended their agreements … Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day.’” By Jan. 11, Apple, Google, and Amazon had successfully colluded to destroy the capacity of one...

Facebook's fact-checkers have come for the Wall Street Journal, causing the mainstream newspaper to be censored on the world's largest social network, after the Journal published an op-ed from a Johns Hopkins surgeon who argued that the United States is likely to achieve herd immunity to the COVID-19 virus by April.

WSJ Editorial Board Suggests Revising Section 230 Protections for Big Tech The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board came out this week to express support for curtailing broad legal protections for technology companies after one of the newspaper’s opinion articles was fact-checked by Facebook. “We’ve been leery of proposals in Congress to modify Section 230 protections that shield internet platforms from liability. But social-media giants are increasingly adding phony fact checks and removing articles flagged by left-leaning users without explanation,” the board wrote in an op-ed ...

Facebook slaps 'fake news' warning on WSJ column claiming herd immunity for the US by April penned by Johns Hopkins professor Johns Hopkins professor Dr Marty Makary penned Wall Street Journal op-ed in February claiming US will be achieve herd immunity by April  But his op-ed was recently flagged by Facebook fact-checker, the Journal said  In a March 5 article written by the Journal's editorial board, they claimed Facebook was relying on 'counter-opinion masquerading as fact checking' They said Makary was simply making a projection that 'was only flagged by 'progressive health clerisy' who ...