The week in whoppers: Biden’s inflation gaslighting, NPR’s ‘Twitter Files’ disinfo and more

Diary of disturbing disinformation and harmful delusions

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We are saying: Name Biden the Gaslighter-in-Chief, as a result of this declare is thus far off the mark that even left-leaning PolitiFact admitted it lacked “context” and “clarification.” The reality? Costshave risen quicker than wages for a file 20 straight months. People have misplaced huge floor beneath President Biden.


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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has confronted heavy criticism for releasing tons of inside memos from the social media big.
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We are saying: What a laugher! NPR, the taxpayer-funded community that refused to cowl The Put up’s 2020 blockbuster scoop on Hunter Biden’s emails — calling them “distractions” and claiming they’d been “discredited,” although they proved 100% legit  — is now aiming to undercut Elon Musk’s launch of onerous proof displaying Twitter had no foundation for censoring that story. Most ironic: NPR’s spreading its new disinfo in a “particular collection” referred to as . . . “Untangling Disinformation.”


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“Clear vitality is reasonable vitality. . . When you perceive that it’s low-cost, it’s about creating the incentives that permit all people to entry cheaper vitality sources.”

— Rep. Sean Casten (D-Unwell.), Wednesday

We are saying: Casten is arguing that individuals want incentives — i.e., subsidies, like these within the Inflation Discount Act — to get them to make use of cheaper vitality. As a result of who’d need to lower your expenses except they received a further subsidy? Please: The entire purpose subsidies are wanted is as a result of “clear vitality” (photo voltaic, EVs, and many others.) isn’t low-cost, particularly when all the prices (like storage batteries) are figured in. Nor are vitality sources that rely on the climate (wind, photo voltaic) dependable.


Flashback:

Rebekah Jones’ claims in opposition to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by no means proved true.
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We are saying: Media retailers just like the Instances portrayed Rebekah Jones as a heroic whistleblower who uncovered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s alleged coverup of COVID deaths — and was then “focused” by law-enforcement for doing so. But there was by no means any reality to her claims, and this week she struck a cope with prosecutors wherein she admitted illegally accessing a state pc system.


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We are saying: We will’t resolve who’s wackier: QAnon people — or folks like “world-famous researcher” Caroline Orr Bueno, who see them round each nook and assume “120 million” persons are about to develop into home terrorists as a result of Musk posted a bunny emoji that some folks may see as a QAnon reference.

— Compiled by The Put up Editorial Board

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