Weisselberg, 76, surrendered to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office earlier Mon & entered state court in #handcuffs, wearing a mask, before pleading #guilty to 5 counts of #perjury.
These cops should be named. After all, if a cop is going to lie under oath directly to a judge, what’s to stop them from lying under oath on the stand in a criminal proceeding?
Meta is downranking/hiding political content on Threads. The company says Threads will “not recommend any content/accounts that post about politics.”
Here’s the issue: what counts as “politics” is often any news abt people who have had their whole existence politicized, such as news about Black people, LGBTQ people, disabled ppl, women, etc. Climate scientists, public health experts etc also considered “political” https://www.axios.com/2024/02/09/meta-political-content-moderation-threads
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics
In Why Leaders Lie , Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft, identifying the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits.
Asked to what extent, if at all, they would describe the current Government as being either honest, or corrupt, 57% of voters said they would describe them as being corrupt.
There is no such thing as "#lawful#access". Encryption is #math. There is no math that the "good guys" can do but which cannot be done by the "bad guys".
Anyone who suggests different is #lying, to #spy on you.
@Greenseer I'm more expressing my personal anger/sadness because I'm watching #USA & #Israel play similar #lying games & it pisses me off a lot. I really wish more folks learned about #geopolitical#history because this shit that US & Israel govts are doing IS NOT NEW! What's new is their high tech, kill more people faster tools of crimes against humanity. They're using almost EXACT SAME style of #propaganda . I am #PISSEDOFF about that. Many people believed US #lies in 60s & 70s too.
As Eric Trump found out today and others will also soon find out, #lying appears easy, but it's equally easy for those who ask the right questions in the right order to expose the lies. Once you're found out as a liar, almost nothing you say subsequently will be believed. Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose and practically impossible to regain once lost. Lying undermines society in every way possible.
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“#Trump is no longer rich enough…. …He is $300 million shy (estimated because who knows?) of the cutoff for The #Forbes400 ranking of America’s richest people, the annual measurement that Trump has obsessed over for decades, relentlessly #lying to reporters to try to vault himself higher on the list.”
“Disgraceful trial,” he declared during a lunch break, after listening to lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James excoriate him as a habitual liar. The state’s lawsuit accuses the business-mogul-turned-politician and his company of deceiving banks, insurers and others by misstating his wealth for years in financial statements.
"Murdoch’s days of lying aren’t over. The resignation letter Murdoch released to his employees was itself a masterpiece of misinformation. The first falsehood is the idea that Murdoch is resigning and handing over the reins to son Lachlan."
And: "Murdoch casts himself as a populist fighting 'elites' who 'have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class.'"
"One might ask how someone worth more than $8 billion has the nerve to cast himself as a populist. This is the familiar tactic of right-wing demagoguery: wearing the mask of populism in order to defend hierarchy and plutocracy.
This particular mask is increasingly slipping as Murdoch and his media minions are torn between a desire to stir up the mob while also defending their entrenched privilege."
Investigators found that #Trump duped #insurance companies by #lying about his stash of cash.
There was rampant #fraud in preparation of Trump’s personal #financial statements. The Trumps then used those #fraudulent statements repeatedly and persistently with #banks and insurance companies in transactions seeking financial benefits.
It's all funny with AI. I've learned when you ask them to do anything creative and "original" to ask them afterward if they invented any words. If you don't ask, they won't tell you. For strict rhyme schemes, they always invent.
Same with a reference to books that do not exist! Here's ChatGPT-4 from yesterday making up a book reference for the waterways of Venice!
They never admit to lying, though -- it's all only a "mistake" or whatnot!