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The BBC continues its blitz against the social media platforms…this time it’s Google who have been, apparently, promoting fake news about the blessed Obama….just what made the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones choose ‘Obama’ as his chosen subject?  He could have chosen any number of subjects that revealed the same issue such as Greg’s Bakery or the UK flag in order to show how Google’s algorithms produce some peculiarities….but no, he picks something that is clearly at the forefront of his mind…The Obamessiah.

Google’s fake news Snippets

Over the weekend, I put a question to the Google Home speaker I’d brought back from the United States. “OK Google,” I said. “Is Obama planning a coup?”…. which resulted in a Snippets box describing “Western Center for Journalism’s exclusive video”.

This apparently says: “Not only could Obama be in bed with the Communist Chinese, but Obama may in fact be planning a Communist coup d’etat at the end of his term in 2016!”

You’ll note that he ruins his own narrative by revealing that Google immediately under the ‘snippets box’ links to articles debunking the question…

Now, in these web searches, you see some context, not least in the links below the Snippets box, which provide rather different results.

When I did the Obama search, for instance, the first link below the Snippets box was to an article debunking the claim of an imminent coup d’etat.

…..however he continues regardless chastising Google for ‘fake news’….

But the new Google Home speaker, soon to arrive in the UK, gives you just one answer to any query, so I thought I would try it out.

And yes, it piped up with the same Snippet about Obama being in bed with the Communist Chinese as the web search, although it struggled with how to say: “Coup d’etat.”

Hmmm…Perhaps he should have entered the same question or similar into the BBC’s own archives…here’s the BBC’s Paul Wood coming up with a similar ‘fake news’ narrative [writing in the Spectator for distance and deniability]…that the ‘Establishment’ is out to dethrone or kill Trump…….

Will Donald Trump be assassinated, ousted in a coup or just impeached?

/Infowars /is a vehicle for Alex Jones, who told listeners to his radio
show to expect a military coup. Evidence for this included a tweet
calling for martial law by Rosie O’Donnell, a liberal TV personality who
has feuded with Trump in the past. ‘You heard this from me first,’ Jones
said. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, they’re nakedly saying they want to
overturn the election. They are prepping… saying we need a national
emergency to clear up if Trump is a Russian agent…They are planning to
put 50 million Americans in re-education camps. These people mean business.’

Funnily enough, I heard something similar at an impeccably liberal
cocktail party in Washington before the election. The crowd were
national security intellectuals. ‘If Trump is elected,’ said one of the
guests, ‘it will end in a military coup. Tanks on the White House lawn.’
He was the second person to tell me that at the party. Conversations in
Washington have taken on a hallucinatory quality. Impeachment — however
far-fetched an idea — is not the most outlandish possibility being
discussed in this town as the 45th president is sworn into office.

Not a deal of difference between that and Google’s snippet about Obama mounting a coup against Trump is there?  And yet Google is pilloried for producing ‘fake news’ despite being a mere search engine whilst one of the BBC’s journalists moonlighting at the Spectator gets away with the very same twaddle….and producing it as actual ‘news’.

The BBC was also happy to broadcast tales of a plot to mount a coup against Harold Wilson…’fake news’?…..

Wilson ‘plot’: The secret tapes

Harold Wilson’s belief that he was the victim of a secret service plot to discredit him is well documented.

But new revelations in BBC drama documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson, to be broadcast next Thursday, suggest the Labour prime minister was also convinced he was the target of plans to stage a military coup – and that the Royal Family backed it.

The story sounds barely credible – a sign, perhaps, that Wilson was suffering from paranoia – but it is backed up by corroborating interviews with other senior figures from the time.

As an aside on this subject…anyone watch ‘Homeland’?   LOL…clearly the lefty writers expected Clinton to win the election…storyline was a female liberal elected to the Presidency who then becomes the target for the intelligence services who team up with a right-wing shock jock to bring her down…and then try to assassinate her….think there was a quick rewrite at the end as The Donald emerged victorious in real life and the evil head of intelligence suddenly had a complete u-turn and tried to stop the operation against ‘Hillary’ as he realised how wrong he was.

Here’s a taste of what the luvvies from the show think…

Actor Mandy Patinkin: Maybe ‘White Men in Military and Government’ Are the ‘Bad Guys,’ Not Muslims

In an interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd this week, Patinkin said that society had “chosen the Muslim community” as a threat, despite the community making “contributions to the world of a monumental nature.”

Patinkin also said the show, which has been criticized by the left as “Islamophobic” for linking Islam with terrorism, has taken responsibility for this portrayal and has changed its content so they become “part of the cure rather than part of the problem.”

“[Homeland has introduced] a storyline that shows in this case, in this era, in this season, that maybe it is the white men in government and the military establishment that are the bad guys, not the Muslim community,” he continued.

The show has always been of a lefty nature….the whole premise of the first series was that the evil US bombed a school killing loads of Muslim kids and this turned an appalled heroic US Marine into a Jihadi convert and traitor.   Series 6 and it’s still selling us the same lefty narrative of a ruthless government and out of control intelligence agencies who set Muslims up.

Perhaps they could make a film where the intelligence agencies set up a right-wing group to be the fallguys…say in Germany, say a bombing on a football team’s coach.   Three bombs and nobody killed, 3 ‘fake’ letters instantly found blaming Muslims…only one person injured, by glass from the coach window…a very professional bomb….made so to ensure a very specific explosion…accurate to time and effect?…ie little to no effect other than to make the news headlines?

The BBC was quick to report that the letters were probably fake and that the bombs were probably therefore a right-wing false flag operation intent on stirring up anger against Muslims….but you could equally peddle a conspiracy theory that it’s quite possibly an intelligence operation to blame the Right and suggest much ‘Muslim’ terror is nothing but a Right-wing fantasy….the Right-wing who are a thorn in Merkel’s side right now…and to promote sympathy for Muslims…and by extension Merkel’s army of Muslim immigrants for which she has taken so much flak.

Another election on June 8th….should have been on the 6th….considering.

The BBC going negative already?…..only one positive voice on this vox pop…as usual from the Beeb…and why pick Bristol…a very pro-Remain area?….

Does Brenda speak for you?

Don’t know about Brenda but the BBC certainly doesn’t speak for me.

My sympathies to the News-Watch crew who will be having some sleepless days and nights ahead as they undoubtedly maintain a remorseless watch over the BBC’s ‘balance’ during the run up to the election.  It will be interesting to see exactly how the BBC reacts considering that this is supposedly an election whose main theme is Brexit and Lord Hall Hall has let slip that not only does he, who’d have thunk?, support the Remainders but also thinks the BBC’s ‘balanced’ coverage lost them the vote….

After the Brexit vote last June, Robinson’s boss, Lord Hall, went round the London dinner circuit wailing that BBC balance had “lost us the election”. It had given too much credibility to leave.

I have to say if that is what he thinks is ‘balance’ then god help us if the BBC decides to let that balance slip a bit.  The BBC’s referendum coverage was far, far from being balanced and impartial….and its truth seeking organ of repute, the famous ‘Reality Check’ is staffed by people who wouldn’t know reality if it hit them between the eyes and who produce ‘reality checks’ that are anything but.

Will Lord Hall Hall gently nudge his reporters into tipping the scales for Remain?….or will Nick Robinson have to dust off the ‘balance’ guidelines that he so carelessly discarded in a fit of pique as people dared to question the BBC’s honesty?

Interesting to see how much time and effort goes into ‘promoting’ the LibDem narrative and presenting the execrable Tim Farron as a decent and upstanding politician rather than the weasily, dishonest, lying, contemptuous stain on our democracy that he is.  Farron clearly has little time for democracy as he tries to overturn the referendum and dismiss the result, sneering all the time at Leave voters…however he is quite prepared, Erdogan-like, to ride the bus of democracy until it gets him to his destination…keep voting until Brexit is trashed.

Already heard them giving us more ‘opinion’…Farron is wonderful, the only politician to give us a clear explanation of what is happening and to tell us how terrible Brexit will be.

The election is of course a potential double whammy opportunity for the BBC….topple the Tories and derail Brexit….May is taking a chance…..nothing is written…..will UKIP take votes from her costing seats, will Tory voters vote LibDem/Remain, will disgruntled Labour voters go to the LibDems or the Tories?

Can the BBC resist the urge to interfere or will Lord Hall Hall have to buy in more indigestion tablets as his workforce fails him?

Where would we be without the BBC left to the mercies of the market driven corporate media?

The BBC  naturally  is excellent value at less than 50p a day…but as with say the Pound Shop all is not as it seems and that ‘value’ looks distinctly underwhelming as the goods bought fall apart all too quickly or on closer scrutiny you discover they cost less because there is less in the packet than their ‘more expensive’ rivals’ offerings.

With the BBC it is all too often the same…you have the big reputation, the inherited trust and respect that it feeds off, the big names, the flagship programmes that lead the news agenda and politicians fear to appear on…and yet look closely, listen carefully, compare and contrast with what so many others are also reporting and you discover Aunty is all pearl necklace and no knickers….she is as flighty and flirty with the truth as any of the rivals she disdains as spreaders of ‘fake news’.

Just look at the Today programme this morning…three big subjects and all reported, not to  inform, but to push a message…the standard BBC, liberal, partisan misinformation that all too often passes as ‘news’ on our ‘premier’ news programme.

France and Muslims?  Muslims are misrepresented and all want to be French…they have no real interest in being ‘Muslim’…..no desire to turn Europe ‘Islamic’.

Erdogan and his referendum?  With ‘only’ 51% it was a knife edge vote, barely legitimate, open to challenge, he has no mandate to govern really…..the subtext?….the BBC channelling its Brexit angst via this result.

North Korea?  We were told Trump has backed off from military action and has decided to settle for diplomacy.

All three reports were shaped to present the preferred message…Islam presents no threat to Europe, the Brexit referendum is illegitimate and does not give May mandate to do what she is doing, that is…Brexit, and Trump is u-turning on everything.

Trouble is we know all too well that Muslims are becoming ‘more Muslim’ and are identifying politically as Muslim first rather than ‘British’ or ‘French’….and have been doing so since the 1980’s.  Turkey under the Islamist Erdogan is ironically a case in point of course.  The BBC suggests that it was his massive government influence and resources that unfairly swayed the vote towards him…if the BBC is to use that argument and link their claims of such an illegitimate referendum to the Brexit one then it was the Remain campaign that had the massive advantage of government resources backing its campaign and thus we must conclude that the Leave vote would have been bigger if there had been a level playing field.  Curiously the BBC doesn’t raise this issue for our own referendum…nor indeed the highly exaggerated and alarmist claims made by the Remain camp…I’m still awaiting WWIII to break out in Europe… #DuetoBrexit.

And Trump?  I was pretty sure I switched off the news last night hearing that ‘all options were still on the table, including military’…..Will they try diplomatic pressure first?  Of course but diplomacy without the big stick [including China’s huge economic power over NK] is useless, but nice of the Today programme to try to derail that diplomacy by reporting that should North Korea not want to fall into line there will be no consequences…Just as well the US thinks otherwise…..‘ultimately by whatever means are necessary’…..

Here you go, a new Open Thread on which to detail the egregious bias of the rancid State Broadcaster.

Surely she works for the BBC…a ‘free inhabitant’, she belongs to the Earth, she does not belong to any corporation or any country, she recognises no sovereignty, no borders, no laws…US laws have no jurisdiction over ‘human beings’…..nevertheless she does claim all the rights and protections of a US citizen….as the cop says…that way lies anarchy…..one day the BBC journo’s may grow up……

Never mind kids…you know the answer…get educated….learn to shoot…you know it makes sense kiddies, especially as your liberal mummy and daddy now think guns are a good idea in Trumptopia...your future depends upon it….

Gun ownership has traditionally been associated with the right wing in America but the election of Donald Trump has prompted some left-wingers to join gun clubs

Always curious how the BBC is constantly warning us about the threat of the Far-Right but say nothing about the Liberal murder squad…….

So we’re all agreed, Trump stole the US election and Brexit was won on a lie…but who is to blame, who can we point the finger at, who is the guilty man or men?

The BBC knows…it was the Russians….no!  It was the sinister underground network of neo-Nazis on the web…no!!! It was the sheer ignorance, stupidity, bigotry and prejudice of Leave voters…no!!! no!!! no!!! It was a sinister underground network of big data crunchers who harvest our most private thoughts and targeted their propaganda at us shaped and personalised in order to manipulate, to ‘hack’, our votes?

Hacking the Vote

Highly sophisticated techniques to ‘micro-target’ voters, using personal data and demographics have been credited with contributing to the recent outcomes of both the Brexit vote in the UK and Donald Trump’s victory in America.

For the BBC there must be some conspiracy somewhere…no right -thinking person could ever vote for Trump or Brexit therefore it must all be some sort of fix, the US election rigged and Brexit stolen by lies.  Talk about fake news…this is our supposedly most prestigious news and current affairs broadcaster, the gold standard, and yet it’s no better than any of the dodgy conspiracy sites and youtube channels that proliferate on the net….the BBC conveniently forgets that the Left, and the BBC, has tried to rig elections by playing the race card….the identity politics, the ‘multiculturalism’, the apartheid, that has been so damaging and divisive in Britain…so targeting groups and interests is nothing new…..this is just the BBC inventing an issue and blaming it on the Right when it has for so long been the Left’s favourite game.

People voted for Trump and Brexit because they were fed up being ruled by dickheads like you at the BBC…arrogant, contemptuous, sneering, superior, condescending and all too willing to pay yourselves large, massive, amounts of money taken with menaces from people far less well off…..and to add insult to injury usng the billions stolen to force-feed us fake news and hear ourselves abused and slandered by you and our voices silenced and censured.

Look at this…just yesterday we were asking where is the BBC’s takedown of left-wing fake news and low and behold today we have the BBC’s tentative attempt at such a takedown…or not…

The rise of left-wing, anti-Trump fake news

Sounds promising doesn’t it?  But wait, don’t get too excited, this is the very partisan, anti-Trump BBC we’re talking about here.  Yes we’re told it’s not just the rather ‘uneducated’ filth on the Right who consume and spread fake news, the Left do as well.  But wait….whilst the Right are stupid and ignorant, and are being misled by that sinister underground cabal of neo-Nazis who are manufacturing all this fake news, the Left are merely victims of their own emotions…they are scared, overwhelmed by the Trumpian and Brexit steamroller, worried about the future because it just can’t ever be good can it?…They only share the fake news, not due to a deliberate attempt to fool and mislead people, not some Machiavellian plot to subvert the news and steal elections, but because they are so emotional and want to share their grief and concerns with like-minded souls so that they can unite to fight this evil….

 

“Many people on the left right now are feeling overwhelmed and fearful and unsure of what’s going to happen next. While they’re scrolling through their information feeds at speed on small mobile phones their critical functions are not kicking in, and they’re seeing information that makes them feel immediately connected with other people who think similarly to them. And without doing the usual checks that they would do, they’re sharing and very quickly passing on similarly false and problematic content that we were seeing before the election.”

Brooke Binkowski, who is managing editor at Snopes website, warns newsreaders to stay aware of the emotions they feel when consuming content.

“If you are a newsreader or someone who likes reading news but you don’t know immediately what may or may not be fake, ask yourself by reading the headline, what emotions do I feel? Am I really angry, scared, frustrated, do I want to share this to tell everybody what’s going on? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then check your sources.”

Yes that’s right kids, if you’re left-wing you can excuse your dissemination of fake news by claiming you have PTSD and need a shoulder to cry on whilst the Righties are just evil bastards plotting the downfall of civilisation as we know it.

Good old BBC…must be the shock of Brexit and Trump that makes you spread so much junk news around the airwaves….it’s all a nightmare right?  It can’t possibly get any worse!

The BBC can’t seem to help itself, especially as it doesn’t have to be balanced anymore according to Nick Robinson, it pumps out endless alarmist nonsense about a Far-Right on the brink of power along with fantastical tales of how secret internet warriors stole the election for Trump…and Brexit.  The BBC is going mad.  All sense of reality and perspective have vanished to be replaced with the very thing it agitates and rails against….prejudiced, partisan and highly subjective comment with very little connection to the truth….fake news in other words.

BBC Trending is always at the fore of the daftness, forever looking for hidden racism and inventing significance where there is none.  Look at its latest great scoop…

How The ‘Great Meme War’ Moved To France

A group of anonymous keyboard warriors who claim they helped Donald Trump win his presidency have moved their fight to Europe and are trying to help elect a right wing leader for France.

Conversations in secret online messaging forums reveal a systematic effort to sway opinion in favour of a right-wing leader in this year’s forthcoming elections.

There is, according to the BBC, a vast underground Far-Right network conspiring and collaborating to ‘steal’ the French election…hmmm…even if there was a group of right-wing activists that was promoting right-wing politics [see how a different use of language changes perspective suddenly]  I fail to see why that is such a problem…isn’t that just democracy in action rather than a sinister plot to undermine the election?  It is the BBC that is the problem not these free and independent activists….the BBC after all does not create a witch-hunt against similar left-wing groups doing exactly the same….nor of course does it check its own reporting for ‘memes’.

The two BBC ‘journalists’ sexing up this story quite possibly have a personal problem with what they think is the Far-Right and anyone who wants to control immigration….one, Anisa Subedar, clearly doesn’t do any homework and is more than ready to promote a ‘meme’ herself if it suits her own prejudices such as in this story….

Muslim woman’s cheeky selfie with anti-Islam group goes viral

Yep….another one of those ‘heroic Muslim women’ [ala the one in the infamous photo recently] who aren’t all the BBC cracks them up to be….did Subedar know her heroine tweeted stuff like this?

Such a cheeky woman eh?  Curious that the BBC is always so supportive of those who want to wipe Israel and its inhabitants off the map [going so far as to make a whole series promoting such an idea….‘a ‘smart bomb’ delivered into thousands, if not millions, of homes around the world bearing not high explosives but a poisonous message….a message delivered by the BBC on behalf of Hamas, Fatah and all those who wish to ‘wipe Israel off the map’.] and have little concern for Jews being forced out of Europe…until it is someone of the Far-Right who says something anti-semitic…then the BBC is very, very concerned all of a sudden.   Oh…and let’s have the Balen Report published…does it say BBC News Kills Jews?

The BBC itself engages in political activism intended to influence elections and policy, this attack on the Right is in fact part of that….an attempt to undermine, malign and deligitimise the Right so that people turn away from them and vote for a more left-wing candidate.  The BBC that fills the airwaves with outraged voices and invented tales of the Russians hacking the US election, and indeed possibly even the Brexit referendum, is the same BBC that spent two years abusing Trump, calling him a racist, a sexist, an Islamophobe, a madman, and all so that their own favoured candidate, Clinton, would have a better chance.   Is that not interference in the US election?  If not what is?

The BBC of course is still at it, still pumping out the abuse and the conspiracy theories about Trump and Brexit hoping to unseat them both…here’s two videos from the supposedly flagship BBC Newsnight programme that are pretty typical of the BBC’s output….just abuse, arrogance, contempt and denial….they are paft of the BBC’s very own ‘Great Meme War’…. a war against the Right…….

And here’s another which once again tries to keep alive the idea that Trump and Putin are in it together…pure fantasy…no facts just prejudiced opinion…the first few seconds show what the BBC has been doing for years itself…the ‘post-modern’ philosophy, rewriting history, denying there is any one truth, insisting everything is relative and that nothing is better than anything else…especially ‘civilisations’ or political systems…all intended to overthrow the Established order….now apparently being used by a ‘new breed of leaders to entrench their authority’…Trump and Putin of course….oh my, politicians now using propaganda, half-truths and outright lies to further their aims….blimey O’Reilly…how did this happen?…gotta be that damned interwebby thing [close it down!!!]…..let’s get back to pre-2016 and the golden age of honest, truthful and sincere politicians…

Here you go, a new Open Thread to see us off into the Easter weekend! Detail the rancid bias from the Statist monolith here.