About Elon Musk
After reading Benjamin Soskis’ interesting and thoughtful assessment earlier this week in The Chronicle of Philanthropy of Elon Musk’s role in the 2024 U.S. election, I began to thumb through a copy of Nixon…
Elon Musk
InfluenceWatch Podcast #339: Election Innovations: Legal or Loopholes?
As political parties, candidates, and the increasingly relevant party-aligned but technically independent activist groups that have come to dominate the post-McCain-Feingold world work to draw Americans out to the polls,…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Rise of the Fact-Checking
A casual political observer may take the “fact-checker” label at face value. But the entire industry (with little exception) serves as a Trojan horse to justify censorship for the political…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Money Behind Fact-Checking
PolitiFact takes the cake as the worst of the faux fact-checkers and has rightly garnered a reputation for being the most clearly biased in favor of the Left. PolitiFact originated…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Other Major Players
Other major players currently operating include Lead Stories, which is among the most prolific fact-checkers policing content on Facebook. Its staff reveals the operation to be practically a CNN offshoot.
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Pushing Censorship
In January 2018, Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s algorithm would get two changes to help boost “trusted” news outlets while suppressing their competitors. In effect, this was a Trojan horse to push…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Future of Fact-Checking
Following his acquisition of Twitter (now X), Elon Musk revamped the Twitter fact-checking system from one only ever used to benefit the Left, to one that fact-checks everyone.
Which Way AI?
GOP congressional members to get ahead of the impending and possibly ubiquitous influence of artificial intelligence (AI). They are acting partly out of concern that AI could easily become systemically…
The Ministry of Truth Media: The Twitter Files
In 1984, George Orwell’s classic, the Ministry of Truth is the media, and the regime’s motto is: “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.” It’s a deliberately ironic…
The Ministry of Truth Media: Watchdogs Became Lapdogs
Born without dictatorial protection, our Ministry of Truth Media has been freed of the troublesome burden of coercion. This makes it more robust, albeit not as all-powerful, as Orwell’s fictional…