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6/ Mark Zuckerberg whines in 2024, working men died in 2021.
Zuckerberg in his letter to House Republicans this week feels "regret" **for responding** in 2021 to President Biden's bully pulpit pleading by removing from Facebook media artifacts misleading people about the COVID vaccine.
See Oct. 2021 unpaywalled issue of TracingCOVID to decide for yourself if Zuckerberg, who earned higher-than-typical profits in 2021, should feel "regret".
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/p/tracing-brief-is-this-thing-still
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1) California's BOT Disclosure Law was perhaps unfairly panned in a Wired commentary in 2019, by an employee of what Harper's magazine said is the industry-captured "Big Disinformation" research industry.
It was passed by the legislature and signed by CA Gov Jerry Brown.
(This is an excerpt from newsletter #75 of TracingVRL, formerly known as TracingCOVID https://tracingvrl.substack.com/p/departing-an-eventful-april )
Why bring it up today?
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(5/2) People don't realize "natural gas" is another fossil fuel. Climate activists are divided over renaming it "fossil gas" or "methane gas". https://heated.world/p/the-urgent-need-for-methane-literacy I bring this up from my TracingCOVID account, the one that traces misinformation about vaccines and viruses, for a reason. #climatechange #climateaction #fossilgas #methanegas #naturalgas #IsraelPalestine #IsraelPalestineConflict #IsraelGaza
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(1/5) Since political operatives are trying to re-write history about school closures being "the worst pandemic policy" my latest newsletter examines the education *improvements* that ironically are coming out of the pandemic. https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/melodic-lines The first improvement is a long-awaited reform in reading instruction, pushed to a head by parents who eavesdropped on Zoom class. #learningLoss #COVID #COVID19 #misinformation #disinformation
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My latest Tracing newsletter is out. Tracing #53, "Apple Engineer Walter Huang’s Survivors" forecasts this year's information landscape, by looking into how it's already affected by #AI and #AIHype and true believer's hoped-for #AGI. This newsletter talks about Huang's survivors who are suing Tesla and Elon Musk for wrongful death https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/apple-engineer-walter-huangs-survivors #COVID #COVID19 #infodemic #ElonMusk #antivaxx #HCW #Healthcare #PublicHealth
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My latest Tracing newsletter is out. Tracing #53, "Apple Engineer Walter Huang’s Survivors" forecasts this year's information landscape, by looking into how it's already affected by #AI and #AIHype and true believer's hoped-for #AGI. This newsletter talks about Huang's survivors who are suing Tesla and Elon Musk for wrongful death https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/apple-engineer-walter-huangs-survivors #COVID #COVID19 #infodemic #ElonMusk #antivaxx #HCW #Healthcare #PublicHealth
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My latest Tracing newsletter is out. Tracing #53, "Apple Engineer Walter Huang’s Survivors" forecasts this year's information landscape, by looking into how it's already affected by #AI and #AIHype and true believer's hoped-for #AGI. This newsletter talks about Huang's survivors who are suing Tesla and Elon Musk for wrongful death https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/apple-engineer-walter-huangs-survivors #COVID #COVID19 #infodemic #ElonMusk #antivaxx #HCW #Healthcare #PublicHealth
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My latest Tracing newsletter is out. Tracing #53, "Apple Engineer Walter Huang’s Survivors" forecasts this year's information landscape, by looking into how it's already affected by #AI and #AIHype and true believer's hoped-for #AGI. This newsletter talks about Huang's survivors who are suing Tesla and Elon Musk for wrongful death https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/apple-engineer-walter-huangs-survivors #COVID #COVID19 #infodemic #ElonMusk #antivaxx #HCW #Healthcare #PublicHealth
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The lights then dimmed, and the VIPs previewed the screening of the HBO documentary "Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable".
After the credits rolled, the VIPs approached Rory Kennedy with a suggestion.
Oh, no.
#RFKJr #infodemic #nuclearpower
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/i/167625115/rfk-jr-is-not-just-an-antivaxxer
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As RFK Jr. often does, he cited a real study. But the real study didn’t have those facts. Or those figures. He put words into the authors’ mouths.
But at least RFK Jr’s error-ridden claims weren’t captured on film or any permanent record.
That must have been a relief.
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/i/167625115/rfk-jr-is-not-just-an-antivaxxer
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It must have looked weird, if RFK Jr.'s lips were moving but no sound was coming out. Maybe they covered those snippets of the soundrack with soaring violins, to buttress that Kennedy "gravitas". But the "Final Cut" had to be re-edited so the "Final Final Cut" could be broadcast-ready.
#RFKJr #PublicHealth #infodemic
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/i/167625115/rfk-jr-is-not-just-an-antivaxxer
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Nonetheless, it was just after 9/11 and they proceeded. Filming wrapped, and the documentary was "in the can" as they say. Rory Kennedy & crew viewed the Final Cut to see how it played as a whole.
Oh, no.
#RFKJr #publichealth #infodemic
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/i/167625115/rfk-jr-is-not-just-an-antivaxxer
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Nov. 1 2024 Newsletter: The Irregular Voters vs. The Undecideds (TracingVRL) -
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/p/the-irregular-voters-vs-undecideds
Content warning: sparse crudeness ahead.
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Oct 25 As Ohio COVID deaths near 1,000 for 2024, health director urges vigilance, vaccination (Columbus Dispatch) -
The state health department director, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, cautioned Ohioans Thursday ...
"COVID-19 has not gone away, and it remains a very real threat," Vanderhoff said in a press release "The virus continues to evolve and can cause severe illness or death, particularly among those who are unvaccinated."
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Oct 20 2024 [Translated: ] Trump pal Elon Musk Public enemy number two (Der Speigel | Germany)
September 2020 Musk told Kara Swisher he wouldn't vaccinate for COVID.
[Translated: ] If Harris wins, Musk recently said, he would be "fucked" - which, conversely, can be understood as a free pass for the ex-president: Musk would not stop anything that could overthrow Harris. On the contrary.
#Election2024 #COVID #infodemic #pandemic #publichealth #ElonMusk #KamalaHarris
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Two days after my Oct. 11 newsletter published the anti-immigrant narratives amplified by overseas conspiracy influencers, the Lincoln Project on Oct 13 debuted their ad "Axis of Influence" naming Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk & Peter Theil as immigrants who "undermine" "our way of life."
The narration went further, calling the trio the "Axis of Evil". It's powerful, take a look:
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On Oct. 11 TracingVRL documented the news artifacts showing anti-immigrant sentiment across Germany, Ireland, England and the U.S. fomented by 1) Elon Musk's platforms & tweets, and 2) Rupert Murdoch's outlets.
#Election2024 #COVID #Pandemic #Infodemic #Journalism #SocialMedia
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5/ In late 2022, a deranged-yet--lucid man named David DePape broke into then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's house and beat her husband in the head with a hammer.
It was an attack Paul Pelosi miraculously survived.
DePape's posts to Facebook showed he amplified COVID vaccine and other conspiracy theories.
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/p/tracing-brief-is-this-thing-still
#COVID #ConspiracyInfluencers #Infodemic #politics #socialmedia #Pelosi #COVID19 #publichealth
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1/ Newsletter: Is This Thing Still On?
We're in a very blind election seasonTwo years after I started programmer-journalism work on the #infodemic our media grew *more hospitable* to laundered disinformation.
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/p/tracing-brief-is-this-thing-still
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Masks get abused. Lawmakers are doing their best experimenting with mask bans
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BNONews *looks* real, but cites no sources & lists no human editors.
Who or what is BNONews? Derivative genAI news that grants no credit or attribution to its training data? A sole human who types punchy things that sound true-enough alongside hand-drawn line graphs?
#RealNews #FakeNews #GenAI #WhereAreWe #pandemic #infodemic #journalism
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Has anyone else been _unpersoned_ from Twitter/X? I've had two accounts now locked out. I'm neither a troll nor a bot.
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Social Media's first Berlin Wall rises (from 2022)
Nov 25 2022 Twitter Users Warned Not To Delete Their Accounts—Here’s Why (Forbes) -
"If you are thinking about leaving Twitter, deleting your account could be a very dangerous move that enables criminals, scammers, trolls, and more to use your good name to spread disinformation, misinformation, or commit fraud."
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8/ And the misinformation looks to be much worse than usual this election cycle, due to the recent "British Invasion" 🇬🇧 of the U.S. 🇺🇸 press corps.
British editors who worked for Rupert Murdoch have been installed recently at Washington Post, CNN, New York Post, Daily Beast and another at Daily Beast. And the press is a big superorganism, one outlet influences all the others like Axios, Politico.
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-misinfo-meme
#Election2024 #Healthcare #PublicHealth #Misinformation #Infodemic
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7/ Even worse news: NBC News aside, *all news outlets laundered misinformation".
TracingVRL labeled a clip "misinformation if a) it omitted mention of the "End Parkinson's Act" signed July 2, or b) the story contradicted the headline.
https://tracingvrl.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-misinfo-meme
#Election2024 #JoeBiden #Misinformation #Disinformation #Infodemic #PublicHealth
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2/ But first: COVID is still transmitting, wastewater readings show.
There is a narrative spreading that you should wait to test because testing too soon brings a false negative result.
Instead, test twice so as to utilize post-infection antivirals like Paxlovid, which must be taken within five days of testing positive.
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Jun 09 Masked group displays Nazi flag in front of Pierre Capitol building (KITV NBC 4 Sioux City IA) -
http://www.ktiv.com/2024/06/09/masked-group-displays-nazi-flag-front-pierre-capitol-building/
"A group of more than a dozen masked individuals marched through the streets of Pierre before stopping at the front steps of the capitol building Saturday.The group wore all red clothes along with black face masks and posed alongside a nazi flag. Other news stations around the country have reported the group doing the same thing in their city."
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May 09 2023 Ski-masked ding-dong ditchers, stolen car chase wake up Trailside Loop residents (KPCW Public Radio Park City UT) -
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Apr 20 2023 Pleasanton police looking for 2 men in ski masks suspected of fatal stabbing (CBS News) -
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Mar 04 Masked shooters kill 4, wound 7 at party in California (Honolulu Star-Advertiser) -
“A group of men in masks opened fire at an outdoor party in central California, killing four people and wounding seven others, police said.”