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I wish this kind of thing could be in high-school "If you have an emotional reaction: DON'T SHARE IT".. If you stop and think, soooo many of these things stop working.. But, stopping and thinking is hard.. It's a skill like any other, take lots of practice..

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Awesome pre-bunking Ryan.

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I prefer the term ‘Emotionally true’ instead of truthiness. It accurately describes what is happening to people

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Great work Ryan thanks for covering this (from Australia)

Sad the disinformation.

The police inspector who shot him was an Inspector - like an area commander very rare to be frontline, well done to her.

Would love to see you over here

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Apr 13Liked by Ryan McBeth

Best $50 I spent this year. Separate the wheat from the chaff.

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Love your work Rysie. Quick off the mark with this one. Can I just help you with your pronunciation please. It’s Bon-Dye, not Bon-Dee. Cheers

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Apr 13Liked by Ryan McBeth

Is that a bottle of Winford Reserve in the background?

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Those Chinese actors will also push two other narratives. One being that knives should be better regulated. The other being that this is the “inevitable result of the radical disarmament of Australian citizens” that’s happened over the last few years. The goal, again, being to divide the nation.

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I'm a Sydneysider who is somewhat familiar with that area. I personally wouldn't call Bondi Junction a "Jewish area", Jews would still be a minority, but certainly Jews are thicker on the ground there than in the rest of Sydney. There's a synagogue about ten to fifteen minutes' drive away from the shopping mall, for example. And plenty of Eastern European migrants, many Jewish, play in the Bridge clubs in nearby Rose Bay. (Eastern Europeans are bloody strong players too IMX.)

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I know you mainly focus on disinformation, but as a software developer, could you do a video on the Linux vulnerability that was found? Does it seem like a state actor or is it something else?

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It's really sad. There was a mother named Dr Ashlee Good that died later in hospital after trying to protect her baby from the stabber. The baby underwent ongoing surgery and is still in hospital

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Funny how the old Nazi regime and then in the 50’s, in the USofA, trumpie mentor Roy Cohn, his support of Joseph McCarthy’s “red scare” scam, adopted the Nazi strategy of wrapping lies w/ snippets of truths… and now the MAGA trumpies are just soaking that flagrantly BS propaganda up likes flies muster to dog poop

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Great piece, very accessible and clear. The great advice "If you have an emotional reaction: DON'T SHARE IT" will be a tough one to adhere to though, since almost all advertising has some element of fishing for an emotional reaction, though now that I think of it, it is pretty good advice about advertising too. "If you have an emotional reaction: DON'T BUY IT"

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https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-uni-student-trolled-for-being-bondi-junction-killer-in-a-terrible-case-of-mistaken-identity-20240414-p5fjoo.html

Here is an article today down here in Australia where some missinformation about the attacker being a Jewiah man, and it wasnt him at all but it spread like wildfire

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Ron.I live in South Australia & it's all over bar the the shouting they have found that he has a mental health problem , that is why he know to police & it was a single a

police woman who shot & killed the attacker .The child was in the news as the person attacked was carring a child .As far as the news feed goes it's still early days but the cops did good no mention of jews in the paper at all. Sorry if my news is all over the shop but I'm a bit off this morning. ptsd

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