They are coming for you babies and children!

https://rumble.com/vmr3db-pharmacy-danger-woman-seeing-flu-shot-
gets-covid-jab.html

On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:32:39 -0500, "Anonymous" <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> wrote:
>They are coming for you babies and children!

"They're here already! You're next! You're next!"
--Dr. Miles Bennell, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Ironically, Kevin McCarthy's parents both died of actual influenza
during the "Spanish Flu" pandemic of 1918 (Roy, aged 38; Tess, 29).

On 2021-09-21 10:32 a.m., Anonymous wrote:
> They are coming for you babies and children!
>
> https://rumble.com/vmr3db-pharmacy-danger-woman-seeing-flu-shot-
> gets-covid-jab.html
>

OPINION: Rumble Sends Viewers Tumbling Toward Misinformation

May 11, 2021

<https://www.wired.com/story/rumble-sends-viewers-tumbling-toward-misinformation/>

“I'm not really expecting things to ever be what they were,” says Sarah.
“There's no going back.” Sarah’s mother is a QAnon believer who first
came across the conspiracy theory on YouTube. Now that YouTube has taken
steps toward regulating misinformation and conspiracy theories, a new
site, Rumble, has risen to take its place. Sarah feels the platform has
taken her mother away from her.

Rumble is “just the worst possible things about YouTube amplified, like
100 percent,” says Sarah. (Her name has been changed to protect her
identity.) Earlier this year, her mother asked for help accessing Rumble
when her favorite conservative content creators (from Donald Trump Jr.
to “Patriot Streetfighter”) flocked from YouTube to the site. Sarah soon
became one of 150,000 members of the support group QAnon Casualties as
her mother tumbled further down the dangerous conspiracy theory rabbit hole.

Between September 2020 and January 2021, monthly site visits to Rumble
rose from 5 million to 135 million; as of April, they were sitting at
just over 81 million. Sarah’s mother is one of these new Rumble users,
and, according to Sarah, is now refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine.
Explaining her decision, says Sarah, her mother cites the dangerous
anti-vax disinformation found in many videos on Rumble.

Ellie House is a UK-based investigative journalist writing about tech
and companies; she has previously worked with Private Eye, the BBC World
Service, and the Investors Chronicle. Alice Wright is an investigative
journalist based in London covering politics and environmental issues;
she has written for Private Eye, The Times, Prospect, and others.
Isabelle Stanley is an investigative journalist covering social justice
issues for publications including the Sunday Times and Byline Times.

Rumble claims that it does not promote misinformation or conspiracy
theories but simply has a free-speech approach to regulation. However,
our research reveals that Rumble has not only allowed misinformation to
thrive on its platform, it has also actively recommended it.

If you search “vaccine” on Rumble, you are three times more likely to be
recommended videos containing misinformation about the coronavirus than
accurate information. One video by user TommyBX featuring Carrie Madej —
a popular voice in the anti-vax world—alleges, “This is not just a
vaccine; we’re being connected to artificial intelligence.” Others
unfoundedly state that the vaccine is deadly and has not been properly
tested.

Even if you search for an unrelated term, “law,” according to our
research you are just as likely to be recommended Covid-19
misinformation than not — about half of the recommended content is
misleading. If you search for “election” you are twice as likely to be
recommended misinformation than factual content.

The data behind these findings was gathered over five days in February
2021. Using an adaptation of a code first developed by Guillaume Chaslot
(an ex-Google employee who worked on YouTube’s algorithm), information
was collected about which videos Rumble recommends for five neutral
words: “democracy,” “election,” “law,” “coronavirus,” and “vaccine.” The
code was run five times for each word, on different days at different
times, so that the data was reflective of Rumble’s consistent
recommendation algorithm.

Over 6,000 recommendations were manually analyzed. There can be
disagreements about what can and cannot be classed as misinformation, so
this investigation erred on the side of caution. For example, if a
content creator said “I won’t take the vaccine because I think there
might be a tracking chip in it,” the video was not categorized as
misinformation. Whereas if a video stated “there is a tracking device in
the vaccine,” it was. Our conclusions are conservative.

Of the five search terms used, Rumble is more likely than not to
recommend videos containing misinformation for “vaccine,” “election,”
and “law.” Even for the other two words “democracy” and “coronavirus,”
the likelihood of Rumble recommending misleading videos remains high.

This data was tracked almost a year into the pandemic, after more than 3
million deaths worldwide have made it far more difficult to maintain
that the virus is fake. It’s possible that searching for “coronavirus”
on Rumble would have resulted in much more misinformation at the start
of the pandemic.

Recommendation algorithms play a significant role in determining what
users watch. According to Samuel Woolley, director of propaganda
research at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Media
Engagement, algorithms “tend to lead people disproportionately toward
extremist content.” Video streaming sites often promote misinformation
and conspiracy theories, because it’s profitable. “Revenue is directly
linked to the time people spend online,” Chaslot says. It’s “like
heroin.” And most of the growth of extreme or misleading accounts is
down to promotion from these sites — “users and creators have zero
control over the algorithm.” Sarah believes that YouTube’s
recommendation system introduced her mother to the QAnon conspiracy
theory, and now Rumble’s is keeping her hooked.

When asked for comment, a Rumble spokesperson wrote via email, “Rumble
has strict moderation policies banning the incitement of violence,
illegal content, racism, antisemitism, promoting terrorist groups
(designated by US and Canadian governments), and violating copyright, as
well as many other restrictions.”

Rumble claims it is bipartisan, but it chose the 2021 Conservative
Political Action Conference to debut its new livestream tool, where
keynote speaker Donald Trump reiterated false claims that he’d won the
2020 election. Rumble also has powerful backers with deeply conservative
views and high-profile right wing influencers who seek to use the site
to disseminate factually inaccurate content. One of the company’s key
investors is popular influencer Dan Bongino, who The New York Times
lists as a misinformation superspreader.

Chris Pavlovski, Rumble’s founder and CEO, makes his conservative
leanings known on social media. Recent tweets directly engage with
conservative thinkers and commentators, such as the controversial
professor Jordan Peterson and the constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
When former congressman Ron Paul was chastised by YouTube for spreading
medical misinformation, Pavlovski used his Twitter account to ask him to
join Rumble. The company’s official account often retweets Pavlovski’s
personal tweets, suggesting a close relationship between his views and
Rumble’s commercial direction.

Although Rumble’s company accounts are private, it appears to be
profiting from the shift of conservative content creators away from
YouTube. In November, Pavlovski told Fortune that the company was
financially “self-sustaining.” He regularly tweets using the hashtag
#MakeTheSwitch, encouraging users to move their content onto his site.
In January, after the Capitol riots, Rumble filed a $2 billion antitrust
lawsuit against YouTube’s parent company, Google, alleging that the
search engine purposefully promotes YouTube’s videos above Rumble’s.
(Google denies what it dubs “baseless claims” by Rumble.)

Whatever Rumble’s official policy, the site’s content and active
recommendations algorithm is having a negative impact on the lives of
people like Sarah. Yet a debate rages on about how to regulate
information on the internet.

Woolley says that sites like Rumble and Parler should not and cannot
simply be taken off the internet, instead arguing that governments and
organizations like the United Nations and NATO should regulate these
spaces “in terms of specific issues.” If a site hosts extremist content
or allows for electoral disinformation, Woolley says, “then those are
things that they should regulate and litigate on.”

Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, supports a
more hardline approach. “You can say whatever you want, but you can’t
say it wherever you want,” he says, “and the freedom of association is
just as fundamental as the freedom of speech. People have the right to
say ‘I don’t want to do business with you.’” In the end, he adds,
"regulation is coming, and all the social media companies have accepted
that.”

Anti-regulation advocates of a “free speech” defense, says Woolley, take
a “utopian view of how communication exists.” He says that “a lot of
these digital platforms that claim to be all about ‘free speech’ are
based upon a faulty premise to begin with, because there have always
been limitations on speech.”

“The internet has been normalized and co-opted by powerful entities,”
Woolley adds. “It’s not as if it’s just a grassroots organization.” For
example, Parler has funding from the Mercer family, prominent US
conservative lobbyists who were involved with Cambridge Analytica. “When
you start to unpack some of the funding and power structures involved,
you start to realize the internet is not the space these people are
touting it to be,” Woolley says.

On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 4:32:40 PM UTC+2, Anonymous wrote:
> They are coming for you babies and children!
>
> https://rumble.com/vmr3db-pharmacy-danger-woman-seeing-flu-shot-
> gets-covid-jab.html

JFTR. I received my second shot in July and now I am tested positive.
Hope you have a strong immune system!

Regards
Stefan

There is a new joke out about conspiracy theorists.

What is the difference between a conspiracy theorists and someone
who is dead right on?

About 6 months.

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> On 2021-09-21 10:32 a.m., Anonymous wrote:
>
>> They are coming for you babies and children!
>>
>> https://rumble.com/vmr3db-pharmacy-danger-woman-seeing-flu-shot-
>> gets-covid-jab.html
>>
>
> OPINION: Rumble Sends Viewers Tumbling Toward Misinformation
>

There are no conspiracy theories from reports coming from the Stew
Peters Show on Rumble. There are no conspiracy theories from
reports coming from the many doctors on Rumble explaining what is in
the vaccines and the dangers and dammage they are doing to prople
who have gotten the jab. Whether the vaccine is a bio-weapon made
in China or just a badly produced vaccine, nevertheless it has been
shown to be very dangerous and should not be taken.

Rumble does have some weird clientele, but they can be easily
spotted by anyone with an ounce of common sense. Some people on
Rumble are good, but they will still run a bit overboard sometimes.
These infrequent mistakes can be overlooked.

I assume that sec3 has gotten the jab. Therefore, he and his
remailer services will not be around all that much longer. Instead
of taking the usual foolish road of "conspiracy theories" denial, he
should have made a thorough personal investigation so that he might
have saved his life.