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LibRedirect

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jubjubjubjub@joindiaspora.com
Michael Davis

When I saw someone share this cartoon from the 1930s online, my first reflex was that it was a fake (Was "misinformation" really a word that people used in the 1930s?) But according to fact-checkers on Snopes, it is genuine — and a remarkably prescient warning to our present day.

Source of the cartoon: “Health in Pictures”, 1930, published by the American Public Health Association.

#misinformation #1930s #cartoon #satire #snopes #factcheck #virus #epidemic #covid #covid19 #vaccination #antivax

Did a 1930s Cartoon Warn of Vaccine Misinformation?

A remarkably prescient cartoon, dating back almost a century, resurfaced in 2021, as COVID-19 vaccination efforts intensified.

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

Snopes: No, This Ironic Greta Thunberg Sticker on a Flooded Car Isn’t Real

... the image isn’t real.

The real photograph was included in a report published by the German news website Bild, where the submerged car can be seen without the sticker on its window, as noted by another Twitter user who included the real photo in a reply:

https://t.co/58pjZtxbNr

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greta-sticker-on-flooded-car/

The floods themselves and massive damage caused around the world by them, as well as wildfires and other ongoing hazards, are very, very real. And Greta Thunberg is absolutely correct to be mad as hell at older generations, my own included, for not doing enough about them.

(Where fault lies and more pointed blame are further questions.)

#Snopes #Fakes #FakeNews #hoaxes

No, This Ironic Greta Thunberg Sticker on a Flooded Car Isn't Real

The original photo appeared in news reports of disastrous flooding in Germany.

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

That "he rapes young boys meme" is all but certainly false

There's a meme circulating that a certain highly-placed American politician has covered up rapes of underaged girls and boys for decades. Excepting one case involving a then-underage girl which has otherwise seen news coverage, Snopes finds it has no confirmation of the claims and that the meme comes from a highly flawed and unreliable source.

What’s True
A woman using the pseudonym “Katie Johnson” has twice filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein accusing them of having sexually abused her when she was 13 years old, but those lawsuits were dismissed or withdrawn.

What’s False
No evidence supports the claim that Trump has paid upwards of $35 million to silence accusations that he raped several children ranging in age from 10 to 13.

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This meme contains one nugget of truth: A woman using the pseudonym “Katie Johnson” has twice filed a civil lawsuit accusing Trump and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein of having sexually abused her at parties held at the Manhattan homes of Epstein and Trump in 1994, when she was just 13 years old. However, her first complaint was dismissed by the court and the second was voluntarily withdrawn by Johnson, so the case is not “pending,” and no evidence has ever been offered in court to support Johnson’s allegations.

Aside from that, everything else included in the meme appears to be nothing but sensationalistic fabrications.

Information about the six entries listed after Johnson in this meme — children ranging from ages 10 to 13 who were supposedly raped by Trump but paid off by Trump’s “fixer” to remain silent — all stem from a single source: a Jan. 14-15, 2019, post from the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), a blog published by a notorious conspiracy monger who has been described as an “Utterly deranged nutter with a mind unclouded by facts, evidence, or reason, who at least lets his bigotry shine through rather clearly in his ravings about world politics”:

Here are a few of Wayne Madsen’s greatest scoops: Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik was an Israeli agent who murdered 69 people on behalf of his handlers in Tel Aviv. The attacks of 9/11 were masterminded in Israel and Washington, D.C., as a “false flag” operation. The 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole was also a “false flag” operation, executed by — you guessed it! — the Israelis.

When not mumbling about the perfidious Jews, Madsen is enlightening readers on President Obama’s gay past (he wore “clear nail polish” and was a habitué of Chicago bathhouses), speculating that a “White House S&M ring order[ed] special videos from Abu Ghraib,” and reporting that President Bush’s “feces and urine are classified top secret” and “captured” from special toilets and “flown back from Europe.”

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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-child-rape-settlements/

We're better than this.

There are plenty of valid reasons to oppose, or prosecute, Trump. We don't need to make shit up or spread lies or deranged fabulations.

I'm flagging and reporting instances as disinformation.

#WayneMadsenReport #Snopes #Disinformation

Did Trump Pay $35M to Settle Child Rape Claims Against Him?

An "utterly deranged nutter with a mind unclouded by facts, evidence, or reason" may not be the best of sources.

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