The leftist UK government-funded BBC is hopping aboard the Orwellian disinformation apparatus trend that’s been popping up in the U.S. and around the world.
BBC reporter Marianna SpringWith great joy, the announcement was made in a tweet that she was promoted to be “the BBC’s first Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent!” Her role, according to her propaganda-laced tweet, involves “investigating real-world consequences of online disinformation, trolling & all that’s bad on social media with new podcasts, TV & more coming soon.”
No one or any group can be held responsible for determining truth online.
Concerns about content moderation are constantly raised by a lack or fairness and objectivity. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) even warned about bias regarding artificial intelligence creation.
Spring and BBC make no distinction.
Spring’s bias was on display in a November 2020 tweet when she cast former President Barack Obama as an unbiased arbiter of truth, able to discern “disinformation” versus fact online. In her tweet, she used Obama’s words to bash his successor, President Donald Trump.
Spring also claimed “conspiracies” and “disinformation” were “promoted by prominent figures, with huge followings – like those in charge across the world, including in the White House.” She ended her tweet thread by promotingInterview with Obama regarding disinformation.
According to a tweet thread from September 2020, spring seems almost certain. defendedAccording to The Federalist, leftist Antifa was designated by the Department of Homeland Security Secretary as a domestic terrorist organisation in 2020. In the thread, Spring seemingly tied conservatives to “unfounded conspiracy theories about Antifa’s role in recent fires and protests.”
In a November 2020 BBC article, Spring boasted, “I’ve spent a lot of time this year covering the human impact of conspiracy theories – from the pro-Trump movement QAnon to the explosion in coronavirus misinformation.”
The “QAnon” article Spring linked to in that piece seemingly tried to paint many Jan. 6 protestors as conspiracy theorists, not simply as Americans concerned about our electoral process. The article also suggested that Trump had “unwittingly or not” supported dangerous conspiracy theories.
Also, the BBC displays leftist bias. A BBC news anchor in July complained that there was too much “whiteness” on the UK national women’s soccer team. In February 2021, the BBC released a Diversity and Inclusion Plan for employees. The plan included mandatory unconscious bias training, encouraged voluntary reporting of employees’ social class and sexual orientation and offered ambitious short-term quotas based on race and gender.
But the BBC isn’t the only public media network that has hypocritically targeted “disinformation” online. In July, leftist taxpayer-funded National Public Radio announced its creation of its “Disinformation Reporting” team.
NPR contributor Casey Morell tweetedAbout the disinformation division: “Some great company news”: We’re starting a disinformation department. Twitter users were quick to point out NPR’s Morell. They cited several instances where the tax-payer-funded outlet had spread biased disinformation.
Fox News contributor Gregg Re tweeted, “Does your managing editor still think the Hunter Biden laptop is not a real story?” Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw also jumped in, saying, “Omg that’s great! They can start by addressing the disinformation produced by NPR.”
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