It’s here. The long awaited Annual Fake News Awards of 2023.
How did the legacy media seek to lie to us this last year? What “rich, creamery nothingburgers” did they use to whip the public into hysteria over matters of no consequence? What real events did they ignore? Who will walk away with the most coveted prize for Fake News Story of the Year?
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So, without further ado, let's get onto the awards ceremony hosted, as usual, by our intrepid friend from the flat earth society Bent Krockman.
Fake Journalist of the World
The nominees are
Jointly, Alexandra Klausner of The New York Post, Maria Okanrende of The Daily Mail, Keira Clarke of The Sun and Steve Hopkins of JOE all writing the exact same “I regret having a baby I’d rather watch Netflix” story about the exact same thread by “TheBerry” from the Mumsnet internet forum.
Drew Ortiz, a computer-generated Sports Illustrated correspondent who—along with several other AI-generated non-reporters ‘wrote’ content for the magazine. Contributing stories containing such gems of insight as: “Volleyball can be a little tricky to get into, especially without an actual ball to practice with.”
Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation expert for having lied on her resume.
“CNET Money Staff,” the byline catchall for a slew of chatbot-generated articles which not only published factually incorrect content with no editorial oversight, but also plagiarized like a drunken high school student the night before a term paper deadline.
**And the winner is – **
Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation expert.
In 2018, she submitted a resume to Coda Story, a US government-proxy NED and Soros-funded mofake news outlet, in which she claimed to have “Reported on International News during the World Cup, specifically the perception of Russia, with BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford.”
The only problem: it was a complete and total fabrication!
Coda Story‘s editor put it best when she rejected Spring’s application, saying: “Telling me you are a brilliant reporter who exercises integrity and honesty when you have literally demonstrated the opposite was a terrible idea.”
Fakest Global Warming Story
The Nominees are -
The WHO for claiming at COP28 that 40 million people support their goals when in fact the number was created by adding up all the members of The International Council of Nurses and The World Medical Association with no survey of individuals.
Bill McKibben’s substack for claiming that Monday, July 3rd, 2023, was the hottest day on planet earth in 125,000 years. Despite satellite temperature records only go back 50 years.
German broadcaster One, for taking their once-green maps and making them fiery red (even when they are showing cooler temperatures)!
Patrick T. Brown and The Free Press for “I Overhyped Climate Change to Get Published.”
The Winner is – well, everything in the climate science is faked, but the award goes this year to Patrick T Brown for his honesty.
Patrick P Brown, a PhD climate scientist, admitted he deliberately missed out information from his research paper in order to fit in with the simplistic narrative of climate change in order to be published in Nature magazine. He knew that reducing the sum total of the complex issue of wildfires to “climate change bad” would serve as the ‘Cassandra’ narrative that gets published.
Special Lifetime Achievement Award
Goes to -
‘The Science’. Telling you what to do for thousands of years. Trust me because I’m wearing a stethoscope and I have the first name “Doctor.”
Awarded for such memorable science as eugenics, phrenology, mustard gas, the Tuskegee experiment, agent orange, lockdowns, masks, leeches, blood letting, smoking relaxes you, pesticides, herbicides, GMO’s, bio-weapons, and don’t forget Disease X.
(Whatever happened to Hippocrates “First do no harm”).
To accept the award welcome Dr Anthony Fauci. A man who became synonymous with asking folks to put their trust in ‘The Science’. A Man known for carrying out lethal and horrific experiments on Beagles and orphans. A man with patents on mRNA technology.
Note not to confuse ‘The Science’ which asks you to trust it with science that encourages debate, the scientific method of inquiry and of forwarding, testing, debating and experimentally verifying hypotheses.
The People’s Choice Awards
The Nominees are -
Google for “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI.”
The CBC for “COVID-19 misinformation cost at least 2,800 lives and $300M”, a Canadian government-funded study that relies on guesswork and garbage-in-garbage-out to come up with a made-up, scary-sounding number for how many Canadians died for daring to question the scamdemic (ignoring the growing body count of “died unexpectedly”).
Bloomberg, The Daily Mail and The BBC (and seemingly every other mainstream repeater in the fake news) for their ongoing attempts to hype the fictitious, admittedly made up “Disease X”.
The Environmental Protection Agency for reporting the air quality in East Palestine is safe to breathe.
The Winner Is –
Google for hands on with Gemini.
Turns out, this “remarkable” demonstration of Google’s amazing AI ingenuity was a complete fraud from top to bottom. When called out on this outright fraud, a Google dissembler lamely bleated “We made it to inspire developers.”
The drive to harvest more clicks by calling anything computer-related “artificial intelligence” and hyping every potential capability of this imagined future computing technology as a world-saving advance or a world-ending threat is par for the course at this point.
We should expect plenty more such examples of outright fraud
And Now Finally the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Did your choice make the short list? Were you able to identify the fakest news story amongst so many?
The Fake News Story of the Year
The Nominees Are -
Putin – For the story that Prighozhin blew himself up
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “Hamas-ISIS is sick. They turn hospitals into headquarters for their terror. We just released intelligence proving it. Here it is.”
Toronto Star – for telling the Canadian public Jaroslav Hunka was a man who served in the Ukrainian army, rather than that he was a former SS member.
NYT – for their Viagara fueled rape stories on Oct 7th.
US Congress – accidentality sent $6bn to Ukraine – The reality was that they ‘overestimated the value’ of $6.2 billion worth of military equipment.
The Winner Is
Benjamin Netanyahu – On claiming Hamas are hiding under hospitals to cover up a genocide. Even the BBC questioned whether the tunnel “evidence” wasn’t staged. Although they didn’t go as far as giving any reason for why the Israeli state might have lied, let alone uncover that the tunnels were built by the Israelis.
By the end of December, even The Washington Post was forced to admit that the Israeli proof of this terror HQ under the hospital “falls short” of actual proof, raising critical questions “about whether the civilian harm caused by Israel’s military operations against the hospital—encircling, besieging and ultimately raiding the facility and the tunnel beneath it—were proportionate to the assessed threat.
Of all the war lies this one has to take the biscuit – or Dino Award in this case.
Many people have realised they are witnessing, not the response to an attack against Israel, but the long desired, long awaited and long planned for opportunity to get rid of as many Palestinians as possible. A people the Israeli settlers see as nothing more than barbarians.
The Israeli propaganda machine (award winning) barbarises the Palestinians by accusing them of hiding out in tunnels under hospitals – putting all those women and children in risk in case an enemy comes along and is therefore forced to kill said women and children.
As the war ramps up so does the propaganda. The mainstream media only exists to spread fake news in service of the agendas of global corporations and billionaires. In a world where less than 1% of the population owns more than 99% of the wealth do you really expect democracy to be at work?
This years awards definitely saw a theme of the oncoming encroachment of AI to be both the producers of disinformation and it's assurance. I think it could be that it is we, who are getting dumber, rather than AI getting much smarter! If future historians want to study this period of history I fear all they might be able to evidence about our society will be based on unverifiable AI summations.
There’s much more to be enjoyed from the award ceremony itself.