Disinformation

Brazil: Electoral Court Threatens to Remove Elected Officials from Office for ‘Disinformation’

An electoral court said it will remove elected officials from office, including the president, if they are deemed to have shared “disinformation” during their campaign. Incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro is under scrutiny by the electoral court for warning about the vulnerability to fraud of electronic voting systems.

Educating Journalists about Canada’s Propaganda System an Eyeopener

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. —Noam Chomsky, Media Control:  The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, April 1, 1997  Propaganda isn’t a euphemism for how the other side controls information. Nor is it simply about jailing journalists or shuttering media outlets. A serious discussion of the matter must look […]

Letter to US Legislators: #DefundTheThoughtPolice

Margaret Anna Alice I am calling on you to reject S.3737 (Promoting Public Health Information Act introduced by Senators Ben Ray Luján and Chris Murphy) and every other instrument of censorship under consideration now and in the future. Below is one of the dubious duties delineated in S.3737: (C) strategies to improve communication and dissemination of scientific and evidence-based public health information …

Australian Disinformation Wonderland: The Federal Election 2022

All elections are filled with the half-truths, mistruths and full-fledged lies.  Victory is rarely bought on a platform of complete honesty.  But the road to the current Australian federal election has been potholed by more deception than most.  This is bound to happen when policy platforms are weak and rickety, leaving the opponents large scope […]

CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Whitewashing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine & Biden’s “Disinformation Governing Board”

Biden announced last month the assembly of a team within the Department of Homeland Security with the title: Disinformation Governing Board (DGB). Supposedly this team will be working to combat Russian, Iranian, and Chinese “disinformation.” We dive deeper into the contradictory history of disinformation about Ukraine in 2014 spread by non other than the executive director of the DGB board, Nina Jankowicz.