#Republican misinformation

[republikkkanorcs]

Just go away, nobody likes you.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Democracy is being murdered before our eyes. The truth is being replaced by Republican propaganda. Right-wing fascist oligarchs are buying up the media and using it as a tool to support their Republican puppets. Republicans introduce legislation written by fascist corporate oligarchs. We are nothing more than wage slaves in a dystopian nightmare.

[isawthismeme]

[rejectingrepublicans]

F—king Republican lies! From the South African draft dodger who fled to Canada and then to the US.

[odinsblog]

Abby Philip very plainly and publicly called Tucker Carlson a liar on an internationally televised media outlet. Ask yourself why Tucker Carlson didn’t immediately file a defamation lawsuit against Ms. Philip and CNN. And if he does file a flimsy, face saving, “for show” lawsuit, ask yourself why he will lose.

Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party, the NRA, Fox News and Tucker Carlson have been purchased by the Kremlin. They are all Russian assets spreading Russian talking points, disinformation and pro-Putin propaganda directly from their bosses in the Kremlin. (sources)

[originalleftist]

Racist/Misogynist Trolls: We are going to circulate a picture of Kamala Harris and Amber Heard together to undermine Harris by association, and spread fear of the Nasty Woman Takeover!

Me: I know this is almost certainly fake, but I wish it wasn't and it honestly just makes me like them both more.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

“Brazil, a major non-NATO ally of the U.S., is now preparing for October municipal elections. Under Brazil’s laws, social media companies operating in the country must employ someone to handle government takedown notices, including those regarding political misinformation and incitements to violence.”

Another billionaire asshole that is completely about how anything works but knows he can do whatever he wants because he’s rich. Oligarchs have no accountability.

[sadbeautifutragic]

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[moderat50]

Why Isn't Trump's Claim "They Are Killing Just Born Babies" Isn't An Issue?

At the debate, Trump claimed they are killing just born babies. Why isn't this an issue? Could it be that everyone knows this is a outrageous lie?

[lifblogs]

“For the second year in a row, an OTW Board election candidate has been subject to a campaign of harassment and misinformation.”

What misinformation? Where? There was none. One of last year’s candidates said some terrifying and uninformed things that followed fanpol rhetoric. This year it was an actual Republican. So what information, hmm? I don’t know, the information we had suggested there was a big problem. I’m not cool with harassment, but I’m less cool with the OTW making weird excuses such as “misinformation.”

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Poor, poor, Elongated Muskrat.

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ Repost if you oppose far right racist incitement of violence against Haitian Americans by MAGA Trump Republicans.

(art by Printorama7)

Donald Trump has declared war on the Haitian-American community and many of his fellow Republicans have hopped on the bandwagon.

The twisted political logic behind Trump’s attacks on Haitian immigrant

Trump’s demonization of entire categories of immigrants is dangerous. But when he advocated for a Muslim ban during his first presidential run, he did not direct his followers’ anxiety and loathing toward worshippers at one particular mosque or community. With this new smear, Trump and his running mate are fomenting hatred for a discrete group of 15,000 people in one location. This dramatically increases the risk that their campaign of dehumanization will lead to acts of violence. [ ... ] The Republican ticket’s foray into inciting ethnic hatred in a single municipality cannot be understood as unthinking or impulsive. Sure, Trump routinely makes demagogic statements that are inspired less by political calculation than whatever he happened to just witness on Fox News. But Vance is nothing if not a ruthless and self-disciplined striver. One does not rise from his humble origins to Yale Law School without some ability to filter one’s thoughts or rationally pursue one’s goals. And a person capable of likening Trump to an opiate in 2016, and then becoming an apologist for his insurrection just a few years later, when that posture became politically useful, is plainly willing to do most anything in a calculated bid for power.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Donald Trump Jr. Piles On With Racist Comments About Haitians

Donald Trump Jr. suggested on Thursday that Haitian immigrants were less intelligent than people from other countries, and claimed that there was demographic evidence to back this up. He provided none. “You look at Haiti, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import the third world into your country, you’re going to become the third world,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Charlie Kirk on Real America’s Voice, a conservative broadcasting network. “That’s just basic. It’s not racist. It’s just fact.” Claims inherently linking race, nationality and intelligence have long played a role in scientific racism, which uses pseudoscience to try to justify false claims of racial inferiority or superiority.

If there is a provision in Ohio state law which excludes people who incite violence from the ballot, Haitian-Aericans in the state should pursue that route with Trump.

[sher-ee]

Video in article

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[odinsblog]

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is accusing billionaire Elon Musk of spreading "manipulated lies" after he reposted a video on X featuring an AI-generated voice imitating the vice president. Musk, who has endorsed former President Donald Trump, shared the video on his social media platform without noting that the video was originally released as an explicit parody, violating X's own policy that bars users from sharing “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm."

The fake video reiterates racist attacks against Harris, who previously served as a U.S. senator and attorney general of California.

“I, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate,” the voice says, adding she is a "diversity hire" who doesn't know "the first thing about running the country." The fake-Harris voiceover is played alongside real clips of Harris used by her campaign in an earlier ad, authentic Harris campaign branding and the occasional statement from the actual candidate.

The mocking statements by the voiceover echoes statements from Republican politicians that Harris was only picked as Biden's running mate because she is a Black and Indian-American woman.

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Two AI experts told the AP that the video represents the growing power deepfakes in shaping popular opinion and belief.

“The AI-generated voice is very good,” UC Berkeley digital forensics expert Hany Farid told the news service. “Even though most people won’t believe it is VP Harris’ voice, the video is that much more powerful when the words are in her voice.”

Rob Weissman, co-president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, said that many people will be completely fooled by the video.

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