Pet food producer Purina has said online claims that its products have caused dogs and cats to become ill or die are nothing but false rumors. “Pet parents continue to be understandably scared by an online rumor that there is an issue with Purina pet foods. This rumor is false, and we are saddened to […]
The Department of Homeland Security under the Biden administration awarded a $700,000 grant through a counterterrorism program to an organization that frequently promoted left-wing political narratives. In May 2021, the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (Rhode Island Lab) applied for federal funding through the DHS’s Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grant program. […]
President Joe Biden is asking to send over $100 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and more. Who’s getting what in that massive request, and why have some lawmakers vowed to make it “dead on arrival”? Republicans toss Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) out of the speaker race after a third failed ballot and resistance against him unwavering—leaving […]
The world’s largest human rights violator, the Chinese Communist Party, has sought to take the high moral ground over Israel’s war against the Hamas terrorist organization. NTD spoke to Andy Keiser, a senior principal at Navigators Global, who discussed the Chinese communist regime’s response to the Israel–Hamas War, and how disinformation can rapidly become misinformation.
A state-wide reversal of a law in California. Governor Gavin Newsom has now done away with portions of a so-called “misinformation” law targeting doctors signed into law by his own hand last October. Under that law, doctors would’ve been forced to follow government narratives on things like masks and vaccines–or risk losing their medical licenses. […]
The European Commission is working on a new piece of legislation, which it says will safeguard media independence and tackle misinformation. First drafts of the bill have triggered concerns among journalist associations, publishers, and politicians across Europe.
The United Nations (U.N.) says it is battling mis- and disinformation on social media and beyond through what it calls a “digital army” located across the globe. In an Aug. 19 press release, U.N. officials said peacekeepers throughout the world are building the “digital army” through smartphones, editing apps, and “innovative approaches” as part of […]
Hunter Biden’s attorney on Friday accused House Republicans of undermining the law and engaging in a misinformation campaign to harm Hunter Biden and attack his father, President Joe Biden. In a 10-page letter addressed to Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell also alleged […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the most prominent figures in the U.S. government’s response to COVID-19, has said he’s worried about the country’s future because of disinformation. Fauci, who served as the chief medical adviser to the president until the end of last year, joined The Hill’s Future of Health Care Summit on Thursday. During […]
A recent interview featuring presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was deleted by YouTube for allegedly promoting vaccine “misinformation.” Kennedy appeared on the June 5 episode of the “Jordan B. Peterson Podcast” to discuss an array of topics, including his campaign, vaccines, the environment, and gender dysphoria. Weeks later, he discovered that the episode had been […]
NTD sat down with Rik Mehta, a healthcare law professor at Georgetown University, to discuss the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mehta is an entrepreneur, pharmacist, and former candidate for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey.
Fake AI-generated content has been getting increasingly easier to make and causing more viral videos to pop up around the internet. Most recently, AI-generated speech was used to make a fake interview between American podcaster Joe Rogan and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which went viral this week.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) wanted answers from John Kerry. He said that the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate is showing disregard for U.S. national security in climate negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Comer is also accusing Kerry of not handing over information related to his National Security Council role. Harvard is stopping a […]
Laura Powell, one of the attorneys defending the group of doctors who brought the case, gives her take on the California law that would punish doctors for giving advice to their patients on COVID treatments and vaccinations.
A California judge on Wednesday halted the state’s so-called COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation law, which was challenged by doctors in two lawsuits, claiming it violates their constitutional rights. In Hoeg v. Newsom, five doctors alleged that the state law, AB 2098, is unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. A separate related lawsuit, Hoang v. Bonta, makes […]
U.S. health officials who spread inflated COVID-19 child death data in public meetings apologized to the source of the false data but not to the public, newly obtained emails show. Drs. Katherine Fleming-Dutra and Sara Oliver, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offered the false data in 2022 while U.S. officials […]
A newly released document describes how a group of national security officials worked day and night to flag election-related “misinformation” and “disinformation” and provide it to social media platforms, which Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said shows that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been “weaponized to suppress domestic free speech.” As part of […]
A newly released document describes how a group of national security officials worked day and night to flag so-called election-related “misinformation” and “disinformation.” They then provided that information to social media platforms. A federal judge sanctioned former President Donald Trump and his attorneys on Jan. 19 and ordered them to pay nearly $1 million in […]
Elon Musk now owns Twitter. He posted on Twitter “The bird is freed” after completing the $44 billion acquisition. Twitter will be delisted from the New York stock exchange on Nov. 8. Musk began the ownership with immediate firings of top executives, including twitter’s chief executive officer, chief financial Officer, and legal affairs and policy […]
The Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine will hold a hearing related to the board’s Jan. 12 suspension of Dr. Meryl Nass’s medical license. NTD will livestream Nass’s hearing on Oct. 11 at 1 p.m. ET. Access the livestream on this page, and also at EpochTV. Nass’s original suspension order included accusations of spreading “misinformation.” However, the […]
