We spend the hour with acclaimed journalist and author Naomi Klein, whose new book Doppelganger, out this week, explores what she calls “the mirror world,” a growing right-wing alternate universe of misinformation and conspiracies that, while identifying real problems, opportunistically exploits them to advance a hateful and divisive agenda. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has also praised Naomi Wolf, …
Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World" is a difficult book to describe. It's untrue at the most important level; no one could actually read "Doppelganger" and come away believing that its real subject is Klein's sense of narcissistic injury, or an attempt to defend her personal brand from the damage inflicted by a less desirable Naomi. Klein …
For over a week, many social media posts have been circulating making the claims that nearly half of the pregnant women who participated in the Pfizer vaccine trial lost their babies, that the fact has been revealed in company documents etc. Tweet by US politician claiming 44% pregnant women lost babies in Pfizer vaccine trial US-based website claiming that Pfizer …
CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check. On June 21, Special Minister of State Don Farrell similarly claimed that the AEC's Northern Territory staff had been cut, which he said had "a direct …
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