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MARCH 2024 - FACT CHECK OR STACKED DECK? - Analysis of Australian fact checking organisations from

15 Mar 2024

The bill would require social media companies ACMA to exercise coercive information gathering to submit codes of practice to a government agency, powers that include the removal of the right to silence and the Australian Communications and Media Authority the removal of the privilege against self-incrimination. [...] the left of the political spectrum, indicating that the support for censoring misinformation through fact Given this greatly expanded role for fact checkers checking is popular among left-wing academics.10 under the government’s proposed misinformation The fact that 84 per cent of the misinformation laws, it is appropriate to expand the scope of the IPA’s experts surveyed were identified as leanin. [...] This politial parties), a claim by a politician or about a would include claims that downplay the severity political party in relation to climate change policy of the virus, propose alternative reasons for the or Covid-19 policy was only assessed in the second cause, spread or outbreak of the disease, proposed stage of the analysis as a claim in relation to climate alternative cures or responses,. [...] CRITIC FALSE 7/08/2020 The RT-PCR test is not viable for detecting viruses and the CRITIC FALSE inventor who developed the test in the 1980s argued the same. [...] 7/04/2021 The Latin meaning of AstraZeneca is to “kill the stars” which CRITIC FALSE links to a sinister motive behind the rollout of the pharmaceutical giant’s Covid-19 vaccines.
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