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RT @DanNeidle@twitter.com

I have a new definition of "chutzpah" - lying to the press, threatening them with libel action, and then complaining that their headlines were mean.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DanNeidle/status/1619644390976409600

RT @swilkinsonbc@twitter.com

A young Palestinian man loses his foot after being shot by an israeli in Ya'bad; israeli terrorists attack multiple towns injuring tens of dozens https://english.palinfo.com/news/2023/1/29/Israeli-attacks-target-Palestinians-in-W-Bank

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1619669924791697408

We could be seeing the introduction of the most draconian anti-union laws which give British workers less rights than almost anywhere in the world bar North Korea and Saudi Arabia. We need to stand up to these changes now or it may too late! Find your nearest #strike #rally #demo or #protest on Wednesday and join us! #Resist

1st Palestinian National Conference with PLO, BDS movement, PNGO, human rights groups and many others call for a global front to dismantle Israel's regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid.
http://www.plo.ps/en/article/211/

Fox News opened up its 7pm and 8pm blocks with coverage of the “antifa poster”. This was the first time the supposed poster was actually included in news coverage, but still no info about where it came from or how it was verified.

A brief glimpse at the “antifa poster” — with instructions to “bring rocks, heavy objects, pipes, etc” — makes it clear that it’s fake. They manufactured an entire news cycle based on a fake antifa poster. But that’s just the beginning! 3/

This would hardly be the first time that a law enforcement source has shared mis/disinformation about antifa. In one example, sheriffs in Washington State circulated right-wing disinformation about an “antifa bus” — then used the fake “intel” as “evidence” to justify aircraft surveillance of protesters. 6/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/revealed-california-police-antifa-misinformation

Similarly, a sheriff in Washington state sent out an email alert to other members of law enforcement saying that antifa was responsible for starting wildfires in the PNW — disinformation that ultimately led to an attack on an innocent family.

As recently as yesterday, the LAPD was also reportedly circulating false information about antifa from right-wing sources. 7/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/washington-sheriffs-in-counties-like-klickitat-spread-hoax-of-antifa-wildfires-emails-show

Additional searching led me to this tweet from from “Rob O’Donnell,” which is the first appearance I’ve been able to find of the supposed “antifa poster” online. The Daily Mail article was published about an hour after the tweet.

The person who tweeted it (“Rob”) is a former NYPD detective. So perhaps that reverse image search was leading me in the right direction? 5/

I did a reverse image search based on the screengrab I got from Fox News. The visually-similar images were all from police websites, and “Find Image Source” told me the source was … the NYPD (which, I figured, was likely because of the NYPD shield in the image — more on that in a second). Tineye didn’t find any matching images. So I kept hunting. 4/

The Daily Mail article was recycled & reproduced by a bunch of non-credible & right-wing websites, including the Post Millennial & Free Republic. Again, all of these articles are sourcing a Daily Mail article about a supposed “antifa poster” that wasn’t even pictured in the article.

This is how the right-wing media ecosystem works: They launder information until its original, non-credible source is obscured, and they manufacture truth through repetition and volume. 2/

I often think of this quotation, by the composer Frank Wilhoit, when police violence is in the news:

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Pleased that the @BBCNews@twitter.com is keeping coverage of bully #Raab going
Fear of @DominicRaab@twitter.com knowing they'd lodged a complaint stopped some reports
#ToryScumOut
#EnoughIsEnough
End this #ToryFascistDictatorship
#ToriesOut205
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64434202

RT @PickardJE@twitter.com

- they agreed to downplay any enquiries & tell journalists “the majority of investigations do not lead to prosecution/further action, they are frequently fairly simple clarification requests”

- press officers were urged to “point out that investigations can be quite routine”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1619091919908519936

🙄Electoral Fraud cases:
2017 …..3
2018 ……3
2019 …..4
2020 ….0

Every one was candidate related not local voters trying to cheat.

Cost to implement new regulations:
£180,000,000

#voterID #localelections

The Irish Times: UK faces severe fines if EU rules are breached in Northern Ireland, ECJ opinion suggests
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2023/01/28/uk-faces-severe-fines-if-eu-rules-breached-in-northern-ireland-ecj-opinion-suggests/