Facebook is offering to throttle people who share data about Asymptomatic Spread of Covid. One of the fact-checkers, William Hanage, is obviously an impartial party and probably loves a free lunch! He has essentially, along with others, called lockdowns a “strawman” (i.e. not real or happening…obvi). He has been a major detractor of the GBD, and is a signer of the John Snow Memo. So yeah, he has a bone to pick in his free lunch bag. Balanced AND impartial. The “fact-checkers” refute something that wasn’t even said in the article and struggle to discredit the problematic study! Win-win. READ MORE
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Less Liberty! (More Free Lunch?)
This 2020 edition of the Index, which evaluates the situation for journalists each year in 180 countries and territories, suggests that the next ten years will be pivotal for press freedom because of converging crises affecting the future of journalism: a geopolitical crisis (due to the aggressiveness of authoritarian regimes); a technological crisis (due to a lack of democratic guarantees); a democratic crisis (due to polarisation and repressive policies); a crisis of trust (due to suspicion and even hatred of the media); and an economic crisis (impoverishing quality journalism). READ MORE