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Jonathan

Föderation EN Di 05.09.2023 15:56:22

Disinformation (not focussed on COVID) 🧵

(The COVID disinformation thread is: mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/1)

Wilks brothers
Koch brothers
Atlas Network
Federalist Society
Leonard Leo
Etc

Jonathan

Föderation EN Di 05.09.2023 15:56:43

Wilks brothers (fracking billionaires)

They supported
- PragerU (founded by Allen Estrin and conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager)
- Daily Wire (founded by Ben Shapiro)

Their organizations include
- Heritage Foundation
- Family Research Council and
- Focus on the Family

" "If [God] wants the polar caps to remain in place, then he will leave them there,” [Farris Wilks] said to worshippers at a 2013 service."

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s

Jonathan

Föderation EN Di 05.09.2023 16:02:41

Just a reminder that the National Review published an article that mainstreamed the idea that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Tl;dr: the National Review is garbage

mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/1

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mo 11.09.2023 02:19:48

More about PragerU

mediamatters.org/dennis-prager

Florida & Oklahoma approved this for use in public schools.

Some episodes of PragerU Kids right-wing propaganda from PragerU:
- cartoon distorting the history of the Civil War
- Narrator saying embracing climate denialism is like participating in the Warsaw Uprising
- Video telling girls conforming to gender stereotypes is a great way to embrace femininity
- A dramatization of supposedly civilizing, benevolent era of British colonial rule in India

Jonathan

Föderation EN Di 12.09.2023 18:08:40

Good article showing connection of right-wing think tanks and Murdoch, for example.

newrepublic.com/article/175488

Jonathan

Föderation EN Di 12.09.2023 18:08:58

Typical but worth pointing out

"Not disclosing their corporate donors was a key to IEA’s success too. “The think tank method allowed corporations to say things that they couldn’t say themselves without appearing to be merely speaking to their own profit motives,” Walker said. These tactics allowed the IEA to amass influence in the U.K. and to help spread conservative free-market ideology in British politics throughout the 1960s and ’70s."

Jonathan

Föderation EN Sa 16.09.2023 02:40:55

More

"A U.S.-based libertarian coalition has spent years pressuring the Canadian government to limit how much Indigenous communities can push back on energy development on their own land, newly reviewed strategy documents reveal.

The Atlas Network partnered with an Ottawa-based think tank — the Macdonald-Laurier Institute — which enlisted pro-industry Indigenous representatives in its campaign to provide “a shield against opponents.” "

thenarwhal.ca/atlas-network-in

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mo 18.09.2023 00:37:31

Dark money networks all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States

alreporter.com/2023/09/16/dark

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mo 18.09.2023 14:50:23

Moms for Liberty is another one of these rapidly growing (so they say) movements.

They target education and complain unions have taken over schools. If I look, the anti-union rhetoric and the talk of "freedom" makes me sure they will be funded by/connected to GOP.

Their ostensible asks are here but I'm sure it's all garbage:

FOLLOWING OPINION ARTICLE IS GARBAGE. HERE AS AN EXAMPLE ONLY.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mo 18.09.2023 14:51:35

Oh look it took 5 seconds to find a connection and some grift.

"The group doled out the money to Microtargeted Media, founded by Christian Ziegler, a current Sarasota County commissioner and vice chairman of the Florida GOP, in late August."

news.yahoo.com/exclusive-moms-

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mi 20.09.2023 14:19:27

The left does not do it correctly.

Barre Seid (manufacturing) gave a billion and a half to Leonard Leo and his Federalist Society (right wing propaganda group, influences judges and lawyers, etc.)

propublica.org/article/dark-mo

Jonathan

Föderation EN So 24.09.2023 00:54:01

"Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks

An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation and the quality of medical information online"

Washington Post

archive.ph/wpbaK

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mi 27.09.2023 14:02:41

List of Murdoch holdings, so you can avoid them because he is a miserable piece of human garbage.

edit: I originally read this article as 2021 but it's 2011 so it's well out of date. Sorry.

List from Voice of America.
voanews.com/a/list-of-news-cor

They include'
Fox
Sky (until 2018)
The Times and Sunday Times and 150 publications in UK

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mo 02.10.2023 14:41:37

So many Trump pushers also anti-vax.

Can I haz bank account statements?

Cari Kelemen & @KelemenCari - Sep 28

@ How much mercury and aluminum just went into your body? We need to start asking questions like (G IEIY=N

Cari Kelemen's profile. Naturally she's pro-Trump.

(Medien: 2)

Jonathan

Föderation EN Do 05.10.2023 17:49:00

If you are reading about border walls you may see Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) mentioned.

"A number of Federation for Action on Immigration Reform’s current and former employees are connected to white nationalists such as Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor, and have previously provided a platform for anti-Muslim actors Robert Spencer and Sebastian Gorka."

From bridge.georgetown.edu/research

Jonathan

Föderation EN Sa 21.10.2023 01:11:42

Good description of tactics employed

nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/

"They posted far more than traditional news outlets, used terms like “BREAKING” and emojis like sirens that suggested urgency, and often excluded sourcing for their claims. The most popular posts were often emotionally charged, including footage of the attacks and airstrikes as well as graphic photos and videos of the injured and dead. ...

Jonathan

Föderation EN Sa 21.10.2023 01:11:52

Researchers wrote that the volume of the tweets combined with a dearth of sourcing or context created “the sense of a constant stream of decontextualized anger and violence.”

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mi 25.10.2023 16:02:43

A court stacked with Republicans ordered investigation documents destroyed to protect the subject of the investigation (a Republican) from danger.

Orchestrated by Leonard Leo, Federalist Society.

He just received 1.5 billion from Barre Seid (see post earlier in thread).

propublica.org/article/leonard

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mi 25.10.2023 16:03:08

Leonard's whole method involves stacking courts. Including the Supreme Court.

propublica.org/article/we-dont

Jonathan

Föderation EN Sa 02.12.2023 16:39:48

Radiogenoa

Radiogenoa is a disinfo account.

Constantly posting "immigrants will destroy Europe" posts.

Allowed to thrive on Elon's Twitter. Because of course it is. (Elon has interacted with at least one of its posts.)

web.archive.org/web/2023101116

Jonathan

Föderation EN Sa 02.12.2023 18:14:05

Moms for Liberty

Short thread about Moms for Liberty.

Reminding me to always look up who founded these organizations before I do anything else, I'm reminded that It's founded by the wife of the Florida GOP chair.

mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/1

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mo 01.01.2024 17:50:39

Koch foundations donate huge amounts to top UK universities.

Byline: "New research by Byline Times reveals that billionaire oil magnate Charles Koch – behind hundreds of millions in annual donations promoting climate science disinformation and right-wing causes in the US – has been contributing to academic research in UK institutions "

And we all know donations never come with strings when provided by miserable oil barons either 😉

bylinetimes.com/2023/06/21/rev

Jonathan

Föderation EN Di 02.01.2024 03:36:31

Related, this is the story of a purportedly independent regulatory think-tank out of George Washington University.

The think tank is called the Regulatory Studies Center

In actual fact, it is of course no such thing. It's designed to push the agenda that regulation is bad.

That's because it is funded by Koch.

citizen.org/article/koch-cog-r

Jonathan

Föderation EN Di 02.01.2024 03:40:27

From that same article:

"In a 1974 speech, Koch outlined numerous avenues to “fight for free enterprise,” which, to Koch, meant stripping the government to its bare bones. Koch rated “the educational route the most vital and the most neglected” of the options he listed.[7] “The educational method enables the businessman to work effectively without exposing himself to the same public criticism that the other methods, particularly politics, seem to evoke,” Koch said.[8]"

Jonathan

Föderation EN So 04.02.2024 14:53:38

Bit of a change of pace.

I thought people knew this but Narcanon (rehab centers) are run by Scientology (cult)

Somehow I read about this decades ago.

theguardian.com/world/2024/feb

Jonathan

Föderation EN Di 07.05.2024 20:06:43

inquirer.com/politics/pennsylv

"Coalition funders have included the conservative Mercer Family Foundation, a major Trump donor, according to Grantmakers.io, a public IRS data site; the Charles Koch Foundation, connected to Koch Industries, which has owned oil refineries and pipelines, and has conducted a “climate change disinformation campaign,” ..."

Jonathan

Föderation EN So 26.05.2024 13:39:13

Scuence disinformation has, In part, groups that are interested in dismantling regulation behind it.

web.archive.org/web/2024052502

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mi 02.10.2024 13:32:21

Visegrad 24 is 2 Polish guys. Pro Orban. Disinfo.

(Medien: 1)

Jonathan

Föderation EN Do 12.12.2024 08:37:10

There's been an increase in sites that appear to be fact checking sites but which are actually pushing disinformation.

Example:
"Russia, which already uses the "War on Fakes" website"

"In Hungary, the newly launched Faktum backed by pro-government newspaper Mandiner..."

japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/

Jonathan

Föderation EN Mo 23.12.2024 02:01:24

Russian disinformation moving to Bluesky

theins.ru/en/news/277378