[liberationtech] Intentional Big Tech Leftist Bias in Social and News Media Corrupts Elections and Defrauds Peoples
Richard Brooks
rrb at g.clemson.edu
Sat Jan 2 03:19:13 CET 2021
"I don’t have the time to waste on “liberation tech” that finds favour
with the MIC/NATO establishment and its media trolls and is uninterested
in learning from actual citizen-led independent investigations. And that
are in apparent uncritical support of the $2 trillion / year US/NATO war
system that uses mercenary “terrorists” to create events that justify
its attacks and regime change programs. "
We are probably one of the most open audiences to your message.
You need to be convincing and explain why the others are wrong.
Any point worth presenting is worth defending. If the other
side is so wrong, it should be easy to defeat anyway.
But, if having ever taken money from the Pentagon makes you
permanently disqualified, I was tainted before birth.
On 1/1/21 7:52 PM, Peter Jones | Redesign wrote:
> You are seriously citing “Snopes” in a list that purports to engage
> scholarship into serious surveillance, security technology or (in this
> case) foreign policy issues?
>
>
>
> Perhaps you didn’t look at any of the references I cited. The most
> significant issue with Bellingcat is that they are funded and sponsored
> by a NATO advisory. It is their job to disinform. That is how wars are
> promoted when you are the aggressor.
>
>
>
> Higgins has been caught outright lying about his relationship with the
> FCO and government funding by Hitchens and others on Twitter. These are
> not arguments, they are misrepresentations.
>
>
>
> The critical issue here is the cover-up. The lead OPCW field chemist who
> led the fact-finding mission for the Douma Syria report verified that
> there was no indication of a chorine “chemical weapons” attack on the
> purported site. There were two dozen children’s bodies placed in the
> basement, that were claimed as victims, but they did not die of
> chlorine. There was no chlorine beyond the level found in normal
> household use.
>
>
>
> But the field investigation team’s unanimous findings were deliberately
> misreported by the OPCW by their (Bush appointed) Dir General, who
> publicly claimed there was a confirmed chorine release. Which is not
> revealed by the field findings. That is the real political scandal.
>
>
>
> The filed team did not state that the filmed scene was staged – that’s
> outside the purview of OPCW. But that is also the subject of Patrick
> Watson’s analysis BTW. Read some of the painstaking analysis and you
> will see why this is suppressed, and why I think very poorly of “Snopes”
> who is enabling (our) war crimes here.
>
>
>
> Snopes is also partisan and unreliable in a media ecology that is now
> hopelessly divided and divisive. Its as much of an establishment tool as
> exists in the US/UK universe of bought-reporting.
>
>
>
> If this level of insight on the list persists - I’ll just going to quit
> the list. I don’t have the time to waste on “liberation tech” that finds
> favour with the MIC/NATO establishment and its media trolls and is
> uninterested in learning from actual citizen-led independent
> investigations. And that are in apparent uncritical support of the $2
> trillion / year US/NATO war system that uses mercenary “terrorists” to
> create events that justify its attacks and regime change programs. Who
> did you think is paying for the surveillance systems that this list was
> set up to intervene? Its all the same Five Eyes.
>
>
>
> I recommend to those interested in our new approach to the peace
> movement, to find the report on Global Security System at World Beyond
> War https://worldbeyondwar.org/alternative/
>
>
>
> Wishing everyone peace in your own communities in the New Year.
>
>
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> *From:*LT <lt-bounces at lists.liberationtech.org> *On Behalf *
> *Subject:* Re: [liberationtech] Intentional Big Tech Leftist Bias in
> Social and News Media Corrupts Elections and Defrauds Peoples
>
>
>
> Thanks Tom.
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>
> That seems to clear up some things.
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> — Doug
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> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 5:17 PM Domestic Caverns
> <domestic.caverns at gmail.com <mailto:domestic.caverns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
>
>
> I’m not sure if this is what you’re referring to regarding the white
> helmets, but here is some fact checking on them as a hoax:
>
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> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-this-proof-white-helmets-staged-chemical-attack/
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>
>
> Best,
>
> Tom
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>
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:45 PM Peter Jones | Redesign
> <peter at redesignnetwork.com <mailto:peter at redesignnetwork.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard - Its interesting you'd suggest Bellingcat on this
> list (Liberation Tech) as an exemplar for investigative
> techniques that purport to identity motive and source. In my
> observation of their work, they have the resources to conduct
> very sophisticated study - because that are a dedicated insider
> info ops (hybrid warfare) group of the NATO-sponsored Atlantic
> Council - their DFRL organization https://www.digitalsherlocks.org
>
>
>
> Bellingcat started up two days /before/ the infamous MH17
> airliner shootdown in Ukraine 7.17.2014 (a problematic case that
> is still definitely unresolved in the Dutch special court). They
> immediately entangled themselves in evidence production from the
> "fog of war" among the various actual investigators on the
> ground. Their notoriety and founding were started up in sync
> with this event, which would give them interesting context for
> their own motives.
>
>
>
> The founders Higgins and Toler are senior fellows at the NATO
> DFRLab https://www.digitalsherlocks.org/360-os-2018 which
> verifies not necessarily a guarantee of income, but at least the
> level of establishment of their primary client. I’d suspect they
> aren’t hurting for a job.
>
>
>
> The goals of the DRFL program are ostensibly to "counter
> disinformation." But the explicit means of doing so are to
> construct preferred information that is certified by their vast
> network of the military complex that requires such "bottom up"
> narratives to justify their own interventions and weaponization
> of social media. After all Obama shelled out $250M in his last
> gift to the Mil Complex December 2016. Also for “countering
> (primarily Russian) disinformation” which is a neat way of
> saying “creating disinformation for the public.” All US wars
> have been started and justified by such information ops long
> before kinetic actions, and this was done with newspapers
> before electronic media.
>
>
>
> Put your McLuhanist hats on. Who has the most to gain from these
> operations? Who has skin in the game and who is paying for these
> investigations? Who is working at their OWN risk and conscience
> to develop and expose (or whistleblow) truthful reporting?
>
>
>
> The anti-Bellingcats are actual citizen sleuths such as
> Northern Ireland’ Patrick Watson, who was disgusted by what he
> saw as obvious fake videos with the White Helmets, used to
> promote the Syrian “chemical weapons” videos. He did hos own
> research and blew open quiet a bit of trouble.
>
>
>
> His website https://hiddensyria.com/ covers a number of his
> investigations – he’s clearly not a “Russian” anything, as I’ve
> followed his work from the very first tweet I think (I happened
> to see his easily outbursts) AND he doesn’t’ have a lot of
> followers. A troll tries to sensationalize and get a lot of
> attention. Philip has also worked hard, and at risk, to show the
> OPCW organization is at fault for covering up their field
> evidence that exonerates the Syrian government, a very
> inconvenient finding. There are whistle-blower memos and support
> from the founding OPCW General Director for their exposure.
> It’s a significant scandal, and on this issue Bellingcat is
> arguing (and was caught fabricating) for the establishment,
> again, and every time, for the wars.
>
>
>
> I would also confirm regard for the small UK academic team,
> the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media that has done
> open sources and deep investigative reporting on the Syrian
> hoaxes and White Helmets (along with Vanessa Bealey's fieldwork).
>
>
>
> has also been heavily attacked by mainstream reporters,
> (Guardian types) and 77^th Brigade (the British military info
> ops soldiers) https://syriapropagandamedia.org/ Because they
> have been on-0tagert, the BBC and Guardian have smeared their
> work on front page stories to try to recover their Syrian war
> “information superiority.” In the shadowy world of information
> ops, this is a war on real people. And the establishment will
> lose, over time, regardless of how many more millions they throw
> at 77^th Brigades and projects like the UK’s FCO-sponsored
> Integrity Initiative
> https://syriapropagandamedia.org/the-integrity-initiative
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>
>
> Humans with a conscience will always eventually win on social
> media, as the war narrative is always a drumbeat of the same
> talking points and arguments. Reality is complex, ambiguous, and
> subject to surprises – which is what we see in the citizen
> reporter stories.
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>
>
> As a professor I would at least present students with case
> studies from “both sides.”
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>
>
> To a more peaceful 2021, Peter Jones
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: LT <lt-bounces at lists.liberationtech.org
> <mailto:lt-bounces at lists.liberationtech.org>> On Behalf Of
> Richard Brooks
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 2:39 PM
> To: Doug Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org
> <mailto:douglas at publicsphereproject.org>>; Richard Brooks
> <rrb at g.clemson.edu <mailto:rrb at g.clemson.edu>>
> Cc: LT <lt at lists.liberationtech.org
> <mailto:lt at lists.liberationtech.org>>
> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Intentional Big Tech Leftist Bias
> in Social and News Media Corrupts Elections and Defrauds Peoples
>
>
>
> The idea of thoughts and ideas being similar to a biological
> ecosystem has been around for a while. I think that Richard
> Dawkins, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Anton Wilson all have
> legitimate claims to having originated the idea. (It is likely
> to have roots in antiquity somewhere.)
>
>
>
> The US does have a certain anti-intellectualism deep in its
> subconscious and at least one (nameless) political party has
> worked hard to delegitimize science (evolution, economics,
> climate change, ...).
>
>
>
> That this would lead eventually to people being susceptible to
> having their innate biases exploited by other actors, is not
> surprising.
>
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>
> Social media has exacerbated the process.
>
>
>
> One idea that I have been playing with is trying to introduce
> somewhere in curricula having students use tools/techniques like
> those used by Bellingcat to determine the source and motivation
> of online campaigns.
>
>
>
> I really am impressed by Bellingcat.
>
>
>
> On 12/30/20 2:12 PM, Doug Schuler wrote:
>
> > An article in the recent Science magazine talked about a
> “syndemic”
>
> > which
>
> >
>
> > "is the intersection of two epidemics—two diseases ravaging a
>
> > population at the same time, exacerbating each other. HIV
> weakens the
>
> > immune system, for instance, which makes people more likely to
> develop
>
> > tuberculosis. The world witnessed some- thing similar this
> year. We
>
> > live in an eco-system that allows viruses to cross from
> wildlife to
>
> > humans more often and spread farther and faster than ever
> before—that
>
> > gave us SARS-CoV-2. But the virus emerged in an information
> ecosystem
>
> > that helps misinformation and lies spread faster than scientific
>
> > evidence, weakening our ability to respond to new threats.
> That made
>
> > the pandemic far worse."
>
> >
>
> > https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/370/6523/1395.full.pdf
>
> >
>
> > Without necessarily buying into the entire metaphor it seems
> pretty
>
> > useful, bringing up concepts susceptibility, vulnerable
> populations,
>
> > super spreaders, mode of transmission, and, of course,
> inoculation.
>
> >
>
> > It also fits well into my investigations into civic
> intelligence which
>
> > I believe is threatened like other natural resources. And if
> it gets
>
> > too low, our ability to address our problems cooperatively
> becomes
>
> > ever more helpless.
>
> >
>
> > I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!
>
> >
>
> > — Doug
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 8:49 AM Richard Brooks
> <rrb at g.clemson.edu <mailto:rrb at g.clemson.edu>
>
> > <mailto:rrb at g.clemson.edu>> wrote:
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> >
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> > Interesting.
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> >
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> >
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> >
> https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21278601/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-tr
>
> > ump-posts-employee-call-fact-checking-voter-misinformation
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> >
>
> >
> https://faculty.lsu.edu/fakenews/elections/thethreatofqanon.php
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> >
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> >
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> >
> https://www.france24.com/en/20201006-qanon-conspiracies-go-global-in-p
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> > andemic-perfect-storm
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> >
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> >
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> >
> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1329334?jour
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> > nalCode=rics20
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> >
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> >
> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radi
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> > cal.html
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> >
>
> > On 12/23/20 4:31 AM, grarpamp wrote:
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> > > The Invisible Influence of Big Tech on Politics &
> Elections - Allum
>
> > > Bokhari #Deleted
>
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJfGphZBmQ
>
> > > #Deleted: Big Tech's battle to erase the trump movement
> and steal
>
> > the election
>
> > > https://deletedbook.com/
>
> > >
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> >
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> >
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