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PM’s absurd position on predators in his ranks is imploding

He knows nothing about a rape 50 metres from his office and does nothing about a staffer he believes to be dodgy.

 Meanwhile he allows others to his work for him. an obvious case of the boss passing the buck.

 

Workplace lawsuit against two cabinet ministers looms

 There's Cash behind that white board

Former Coalition legal adviser Rachelle Miller is preparing legal action against two high-profile cabinet ministers.

The legal action is focused on the period Ms Miller worked for Alan Tudge when he was human services minister, and for Michaelia Cash when she was jobs and innovation minister.

 

Scott Morrison’s COVID-19 jab: What really happened behind the scenes

 It's all about the selling of Scott Morrison It's all about the SHOW not the SERVICE. Keeping a turd polished is about the narrative and not the truth and that costs advertising dollars.

A war of words has broken out about the timing of the PM’s first COVID-19 jab. So what actually occurred?

Mr Bandt confirmed he had the same understanding. “The government asked me to join in a cross-party vaccination to help push the rollout. I was pleased to be part of that, I said yes. As of Friday, over the weekend, we thought that was still going ahead on Tuesday with that multi-party event. And the first that we found that that wasn’t happening was pictures on television [of the vaccination or Mr Morrison],” he said.

“I think having all of us doing that would have sent a very powerful message. It’s up to the PM to explain why that didn’t happen.”

 

Scott Morrison First Victim Of ‘Job Dobber’ Hotline, After Tip-Off Reveals He’s Avoided Work For A Whole Year

"Mr Morrison now faces having his $10,000-a-week government payment suspended"

 

Black Lives do Matter and yes that does mean being less white. There is no such thing as reverse racism but there is righteous anger and it's not portrayed in this image of Andrew Bolt's victims of racism

Raising anti-fascism awareness is the key to ending White supremacy

Racism |

Word-of-mouth and community support is a more effective way to stamp out right-wing extremism than additional government policing powers.

 

 

The Disinformation Vaccine: Is There a Cure for Conspiracy Theories?

 By Andy Kroll

On Tuesday, Edelman launched what it calls the Disinformation Shield, a tool that uses artificial intelligence, real-time media monitoring of the open and dark webs, and social psychology to track, identify, and defuse the next viral meme or hideous conspiracy theory that brings a major corporation to its knees. The product draws on Sander van der Linden’s inoculation theories to try to prevent the spread of disinformation, not unlike a public-health agency would do to prevent a highly transmissible and potentially dangerous virus from rampaging through a population.

Jim O’Leary, Edelman’s head of global corporate affairs, said in an interview that disinformation was the new battleground not just for elections and governments but for the business world. Just as most of corporate America awoke to the importance of cybersecurity six or seven years ago, companies large and small now realize they can’t ignore the global information crisis. “Disinformation is not ‘the next great threat,’” he says. “It’s here today. For our clients, this has entered the realm of not ‘if’ but ’when.’”

Climate Change and News Corp's disinformation efforts are real and have been continuous for years. Andrew Bolt being the equivalent of a QAnon conspiracy theorist. Today News Corp could be classed alongside Russia's notorius IRA or Internet Research Agency.   

Five or six years ago, Van Der Linden took on the problem of climate-change denial. He wanted to test whether inoculation theory could be applied to prebunking that denial, building up people’s defenses against attempts to question climate science.

 By showing people how anger, fear, and other lizard-brain emotions were used to spread lies and misleading information, van der Linden theorized that it would help people develop awareness and protections — informational antibodies, if you will — for when they encountered mis- and disinformation in real life. He likens this to learning a magician’s tricks. “There’s really two ways to build people’s defenses: one is the passive way, someone gives you a fact sheet or a blueprint of how the trick works and you read it or absorb it,” van der Linden says. “The other is learning by doing. You go to a magic show and step into the shoes of the magician for a little while to try to figure out how and why the trick works.”

 “Working with government is great,” he says, “but to achieve maximum effectiveness, we need the private sector on board as well.”

And there is were it falls down. When the government, the LNP is as unprincipled as News Corp and the IPA and want to rid us of the ABC the chance of prebunking and inoculating us from disinformation falls down. We need a body prepared to put us into the shoes of the Andrew Bolts of our world to reveal the simplistic tricks of the trade he uses to convince us there is still "no consensus on climate change" or reverse racism exist. With the Corporate backing and private interest of Rupert Murdoch behind him  being served we are in desperate need of an Independent Statuary Body like the ABC which was our only hope. So is it any wonder these assholes, the LNP, Murdoch and the IPA want it shredded?