pseudohistory
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New Social Media Site From Team Trump Upsets Qanon Faithful With Hentai and Men In Diapers
GETTR, the new social media platform from the brilliant minds employed by our loser ex-president Donald Trump, has a lot of problems.
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Big Tech CEOs Waffle on Banning the 12 Major Anti-Vaxxers at U.S. Congressional Hearing
After a report from the U.S. Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and Anti-Vax Watch found that a huge percentage of misinformation and conspiracy theories about vaccines can be traced back to just a dozen people, the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter told U.S. Congress they weren’t sure they would ban them.
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America’s Leaders Have No Clue What to Do About Disinformation
As disinformation and misinformation have increasingly been blamed for rising political extremism and polarisation in the U.S., lawmakers have naturally sought to cobble together some sort of legislative response. The problem is that U.S. Congress is, themselves, so polarised that they can’t seem to agree on how to do that.
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Stanley Kubrick’s Daughter Fell Down the QAnon Rabbit Hole
The daughter of late, legendary film director Stanley Kubrick — The Shining, Space Odyssey: 2001, Dr. Strangelove, etc — is on board with extremist groups like the Proud Boys, Boogaloo, and QAnon, according to a Wednesday report in the Daily Beast.