New: 25 Republican lawmakers have threatened to block $32 million in state funding for the University of Pennsylvania due to PennMedicine's employee vaccine policy. Nearly all of that money goes to the school's veterinary program, concerning ag advocates. https://t.co/MzW08fjQ8R
— Stephen Caruso (@StephenJ_Caruso) June 8, 2021
Category: Disinformation
People are so stupid
Russia routinely starts with anti-vax propaganda when they want to destabilize a country — because it works!
It appears the groundswell against compulsory immunization is being coordinated, at least in part, from a law office on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan.https://t.co/Lz7p9ClSzS
— DemCast (@DemCastUSA) May 26, 2021
Crazy Arizona
John Brakey, an official helping oversee the audit of the 2020 Arizona election, says auditors are looking for bamboo fibers because of a baseless accusation that 40K ballots from Asia were smuggled here. #AzAuditPool pic.twitter.com/57UOBYIehg
— Dennis Welch (@dennis_welch) May 5, 2021
Crazier by the minute
QAnon cultist businessman goes on Newsmax to say ‘Trump is president’ and JFK Jr. is his Veep https://t.co/0g6GznOaDf
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 4, 2021
Fix it
Bravo: remove Section 230 protection from large social media companies if their algorithms amplify content that contributes to an act of terrorism or to a violation of civil rights statutes meant to combat extremist groups https://t.co/UYXkLZYGrA
— Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) April 27, 2021
Shot, chaser
SCOOP: Rep. Matt Gaetz has privately told confidants he's seriously considering not seeking re-election and possibly leaving Congress early for a job at Newsmax, three sources with direct knowledge of the talks tell Axios. https://t.co/dhlyDgvkqU
— Axios (@axios) March 30, 2021
Matt Gaetz: "I have definitely, in my single days, provided for women I've dated. You know, I've paid for flights, for hotel rooms. I’ve been, you know, generous as a partner. I think someone is trying to make that look criminal when it is not." https://t.co/ZFbZaZ8ice
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) March 30, 2021
Over the past several weeks my family and I have been victims of an organized criminal extortion involving a former DOJ official seeking $25 million while threatening to smear my name.
We have been cooperating with federal authorities in this matter…
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) March 30, 2021
Coming to a GOP-controlled state near you
It's growing more likely that a GOP-controlled legislature will subvert a 2024 election result. Republicans are laying the groundwork to do just that, right now. Trump's backing of a radical GOP candidate for Georgia Sec State makes it explicit. My latest:https://t.co/BicTHa2p67
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 30, 2021
Can’t have that
Facebook engineers proposed a feature to notify users when they had shared false news items. "But that was vetoed by policy executives who feared it would disproportionately show notifications to people who shared false news from right-wing websites." https://t.co/mV0HKSHoCU
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) November 24, 2020
I hope they made a fortune
Fox News agreed to a seven-figure payout to the parents of Seth Rich thereby avoiding scheduled depositions of Sean Hannity and @FoxNews president Jay Wallace https://t.co/8zMAI14Wk1
— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) November 25, 2020
Locking the barn door after the horse is out, but okay
Facebook takes down a large network of pages tied to former Trump chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon for misinformation https://t.co/IeBdXWkvkm
— Donna Avocado🥑 TIME TO HEAL #DemCastAZ (@ladalavara) November 9, 2020