Retired DNI James Clapper publicly backs Australia's investigation into Rupert Murdoch's Fox News an

[Budi]

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Retired DNI James Clapper publicly backs Australia's investigation into Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and other channels around the world

Former US intelligence director backs Turnbull and Rudd’s call for Murdoch media inquiry
James Clapper says royal commission into Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Australia a ‘good idea for the sake of transparency’

The former US director of national intelligence James Clapper has backed a call by former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull for a royal commission into the Murdoch media, saying Australia needs to take preventative steps to avoid any slide into “truth decay”.

In an interview with Guardian Australia, Clapper, a retired lieutenant general in the US air force and the top intelligence official for seven years under former US president Barack Obama, said Fox News was a “megaphone for conspiracies and falsehoods” in America. He said the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January had demonstrated a clear connection between truth decay and the risk of civil disobedience and unrest.

“I have spoken a lot about a phenomenon that is not just in the United States but in other places as well of what the Rand Corporation has very aptly and cleverly called truth decay,” Clapper, who is a CNN analyst, said. “This is the whole business of disregarding facts and objective analysis and empirical data.

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“Unfortunately, in this country we’ve fallen into two separate reality bubbles, one of which is fomented and amplified by Fox News.
“Rupert Murdoch and Fox is part of a larger issue we have in this country.
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[SheltieLover]

1. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Budi]

2. Yup. Needs to come under the heading of National Security Risk

When THIS powerful of a foreign propaganda organization has influence in radio, social media & TV news, then it's long past time to allow them to use the 1st Amendment to infiltrate & destroy our Democracy, as well as the nefarious influence towards our global allies.


Sheltie

[Botany]

3. I want to know more about Russia/Putin's connections to Murdoch/Fox News

Ivanka Trump and Wendy Dang aka the former wife of Rupert Murdoch and then the girlfriend of Vlad Putin
in Sofia, Bulgaria (I think) in the late summer/early fall 2016. This was one of the countries that the Russians
were using to send out misinformation in order to hurt Hillary. According to the Steele Dossier this was right
before or right after Michael Cohen and Ivanka/Jared met with Russian Agents in Prague to talk about rat
fucking our elections. (this is by memory so it might not be 100% accurate)

[SheltieLover]

4. You are not alone!

[Dustlawyer]

5. The propaganda in our media is one of the two root causes of most of our country's problems.

The other being our campaign finance system. We will not solve our problems until both are properly addressed.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Rupert Murdoch

Reich Propaganda