Monday 2 August 2021

Fighting Fake News with REAL 2/8/21; Murdoch Media banned by a private org; Kelly and Christensen MPs cry foul; Dutton's Scam; LNP fosters the Right-Wing structurally; Fact Check;

 

 

Sky News hosts.

A Youtube spokesperson said the website had taken steps against Sky, including removing videos from the media outlet’s online channel and issuing a ‘strike’ against it, causing it to be temporarily suspended from uploading new content.

“We have clear and established COVID-19 medical misinformation policies based on local and global health authority guidance, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement.

YouTube has not said what videos published by Sky it removed, but the platform doesn’t allow content medical misinformation about COVID-19 “that poses a serious risk of egregious harm in contradiction with local and global health authorities’ guidance about COVID-19 treatment, prevention, transmission, and social distancing.”

Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation

 

Sky News taken down by YouTube for a week

 MPs who want the ABC banned complain about the freedoms private organizations like You Tube have and these conservatives want to implement Fascist Policies here banning YouTube's private org freedoms.

Federal MPs Craig Kelly and George Christensen have claimed YouTube’s week-long ban for Sky News Australia is “censorship”, while the channel slammed the tech giant for a “disturbing assault on freedom of thought”. As The New Daily reported on Sunday, YouTube has restricted the account of Sky News – one of the biggest channels in Australia, with more than 1.86 million subscribers – for a week and deleted several of its videos, as part of a crackdown on COVID-19 ‘misinformation’.

 Sky News YouTube ban is ‘censorship’, conservative MPs howl


Peter Dutton’s legacy — Australia’s biggest labour trafficking scam 
Having moved on from his role as Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton has passed on a backlog of asylum seekers vulnerable to exploitation.

Peter Dutton’s legacy — Australia’s biggest labour trafficking scam

 

Taxpayers might well question millions funded to the Menzies Research Centre by the Australian Government, given the think-tank’s overarching Right-wing ties, writes David Paull.

 How the Australian Government is fostering Right-wing extremism

Image description: A quote form Bridget McKenzie saying "I would rather be on welfare here in Australian than anywhere else in the world." Bridget McKenzie is the Emergency Management Minister, speaking on ABC Radio National, 29 July 2021. Image then has a fact check, stating that Australia ranks last in the OECD for unemployment benefits; that hundreds of thousands of unemployed people are excluded from disaster payments; and that JobSeeker is well below the poverty line at $44 a day. 

She is back but where the hell is the Deputy PM

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