Tag: Factcheck

LNP Tactics

Fact Check- Labor True Believers, Political Analysis and Satire | Facebook

What’s occurring in edited and manipulated videos is neither “free-speech” nor information. “The full version of the interview on Network 10’s The Project reveals Mr Albanese answered immediately and clearly.”

Misleading. The interview with the prime minister was edited to cut out his response.

Edited versions of a TV interview with Anthony Albanese are being used to suggest the prime minister was lost for words when asked about the powers of the proposed Indigenous voice.

This is misleading. A campaign video from Fair Australia and a similar video from lobby group Advance were selectively edited to suggest Mr Albanese didn’t have a response to a key question.

Source: Labor True Believers, Political Analysis and Satire | Facebook

Trump, Trumpland

Donald Trump and His Allies Are Trying to Rewrite the History of Charlottesville – Mother Jones

Unlike Heather Heyer’s killer, Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager who allegedly crossed state lines with an assault rifle to confront Black Lives Matter protesters in Wisconsin and shot three people, has become a conservative celebrity. Tucker Carlson praised him as a patriot willing to stand up where Democratic cities wouldn’t—“17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would,” he said. An incoming Republican member of Congress shared a meme hailing Rittenhouse for having “fought back.” A Christian fundraising site raised a quarter of a million dollars for Rittenhouse’s legal defense. And on Monday, Trump broke his silence on the episode by asserting that Rittenhouse had acted in self-defense. “He was in very big trouble,” Trump said. “He probably would have been killed.” This time, he didn’t equivocate; the very fine people are only on his side now.

Donald Trump and His Allies Are Trying to Rewrite the History of Charlottesville – Mother Jones