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More than 10 federal agencies under the Biden administration were allocated funding for research and projects on misinformation, spending records show.According to federal figures obtained by Open the Books, the Biden administration spread hundreds of millions of dollars throughout federal agencies to tackle "misinformation."With a total of $273,860,723 spent since 2017, just $6.7 million in federal funding was provided under the Trump administration, with $267 million falling under Biden's years.The report revealed that HHS received the bulk of the funding to stop the spread of "health misinformation."HHS defines "misinformation" as information that is "false, inaccurate, or misleading according to the best available evidence at the time."The federal department has claimed that misinformation spreads easily on social media, as well as on "online retail sites" and "search engines."HHS further declared that building a "healthier information environment" is just as important clean air and water."Health misinformation has led people to decline vaccines, reject public health measures, and use unproven treatments."A breakdown of the spending showed that HHS received well over $185 million over this time period, which included money to combat what it saw as COVID-19 misinformation.This resulted in a plethora of propaganda materials, including the following from the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General:During the pandemic, health misinformation has led people to decline vaccines, reject public health measures, and use unproven treatments. Health misinformation has also led to harassment and violence against health workers, airline staff, and other frontline workers tasked with communicating evolving public health measures.In total, $127 million was directly related to fighting COVID "misinformation." The most typical ways were through public programs to meant to limit misinformation through on-the-ground advocacy, or studies and conferences explaining how misinformation is spread.A whopping $80 million was awarded to HHS and the CDC to partner with "community-based organizations" to "increase vaccination coverage" across different racial and ethnic populations who are allegedly "experiencing disparities."With a "health equity focus," the program has the stated goal of increasing "access and acceptance of influenza and COVID-19 vaccines among adults in racial and/or ethnic populations."The project does not end until April 2026.Other projects focused on alleged misinformation related to HIV, the HPV vaccine, and opioids.One obscure grant included over $230,000 to "educate consumers about the sustainable management of Bering Sea crab fisheries.""[The project] will combat misinformation that negatively impacts public perception of crabbing and the commercial fishing industry."Other federal agencies receiving misinformation funding included the National Science Foundation ($65.5 million), the State Department ($12.6 million), and the Department of Defense ($2.9 million).Other departments including the Institute of Museum & Library Services, the Department of Justice, Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture, and Department of the Interior received funding ranging from $200,000 to $2,000,000.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an esteemed epidemiologist and professor of health policy at Stanford University, refused to accept the premise advanced early in the pandemic by medical establishmentarians and lawmakers that lockdowns, vaccine mandates, masking for kids, and other ruinous COVID-19 policies were the best ways to prevent infection and get back to normal. Although he and other principals behind the Great Barrington Declaration were ultimately vindicated, at the time, he faced incredible abuse. President Joe Biden's former chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins conspired to issue a "quick and devastating takedown" of Bhattacharya's criticism while many of the professor's peers personally attacked him. Adding injury to insult, Bhattacharya was censored online. This prime target for suppression by the current administration is now the nominee to serve as director of the next administration's National Institutes of Health. 'The hammer of justice is coming.' "I am thrilled to nominate Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health," President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening. "Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation's Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve health, and save lives." Dr. Bhattacharya said that he was "honored and humbled" by the nomination and vowed to "reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!" Trump's selection was widely celebrated, especially by those critical of Democratic censorship as well as the scientific establishment's deadly and credibility-destroying hostility to alternative viewpoints. "I'm so grateful to President Trump for this spectacular appointment," tweeted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services. "Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the ideal leader to restore NIH as the international template for gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine." Blaze News editor in chief Matthew J. Peterson wrote, "This is what winning looks like right here. @Dr.JBhattacharya in this role is right and just. The hammer of justice is coming. The era of blackpilling is over. We live in a new era — a new @frontier_mag_. Pick up your shield and sword and get ready to rumble." 'It will be a major step forward to have an NIH Director who will fight science fraud and repudiate science fraudsters.' Matt Kibbe, the BlazeTV host of "Kibbe on Liberty" and "The Coverup," which recently featured Bhattacharya, stated, "Jay Bhattacharya was deemed a 'fringe epidemiologist' by former NIH Director Francis Collins, who demonized him for asking obvious questions about the government's authoritarian response to Covid. Now, Jay will take the helm at NIH, and clean house of all those who corrupted public health and did so much damage to Americans during the pandemic. Karma is a b****." Molecular biologist Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University tweeted, "It will be a major step forward to have an NIH Director who will fight science fraud and repudiate science fraudsters. Rather than an NIH Director — like former NIH Director Francis Collins — who prompted science fraud and rewarded science fraudsters." Earlier this year, Bhattacharya joined Ebright and other scientists in seeking accountability from those scientific journals that happily published "unsound scientific papers" by Fauci, disgraced EcoHealth Alliance boss Peter Daszak, and elements of their inner circle that downplayed the likely lab-leak origins of COVID-19 during the pandemic. BlazeTV host Steve Deace, responding to the fact that Bhattacharya is poised to take over the job of a man who recently sought to destroy his reputation, wrote, "Do not be deceived. God will not be mocked. A man will always reap what he sows." Bhattacharya co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which suggested that geriatrics and other higher-risk groups should engage in shielding, whereas healthy individuals should "immediately be allowed to resume life as normal." Healthy individuals, it suggested, would be better off catching the virus and developing natural immunity. This greatly angered elements of the medical establishment who preferred coercive medicine, blanket lockdowns, and school closures. Fauci called the declaration "total nonsense." Scores of other so-called experts claimed in a response published in the Lancet, the "John Snow Memorandum," that the call for herd immunity and other proposals raised in the declaration were dangerous and unscientific. The memo was signed by thousands of scientists and endorsed by the Federation of American Scientists. Extra to facing criticism from his peers, Bhattacharya was censored online. Reporting from Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" revealed that under previous management, the platform put the professor on a "Trends Blacklist," ensuring that his tweets would be suppressed, including his suggestion that pandemic lockdowns were harmful to children. 'All were suppressed.' Bhattacharya was among the individual plaintiffs who joined the states of Missouri and Louisiana in taking legal action against President Joe Biden, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Anthony Fauci, and various Biden administration officials. The case — Missouri v. Biden, which became Murthy v. Missouri — exposed some of the ways the Democratic administration colluded with social media platforms to suppress dissenting voices and criticism of COVID-19 policies. U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty noted that the Biden administration used its power to silence the opposition. Opposition to COVID-19 vaccines; opposition to COVID-19 masking and lockdowns; opposition to the lab-leak theory of COVID-19; opposition to the validity of the 2020 election; opposition to President Biden's policies; statements that the Hunter Biden laptop story was true; and opposition to policies of the government officials in power. "All were suppressed," wrote Doughty. "It is quite telling that each example or category of suppressed speech was conservative in nature. This targeted suppression of conservative ideas is a perfect example of viewpoint discrimination of political speech." While the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately let the Biden administration off the hook, claiming that "the individual nor the state plaintiffs have established Article III standing to seek an injunction against any defendant," the lawsuit helped paved the way for Kennedy v. Biden as well as Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty, et al., a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration by vaccine-injured Americans. 'Make America Healthy Again!' The ruling also helped emphasize the difference between Biden and Trump. Bhattacharya noted on X following the court's ruling, "The Supreme Court just ruled in the Murthy v. Missouri case that the Biden Administration can coerce social media companies to censor and shadowban people and posts it doesn't like." "This now also becomes a key issue in the upcoming election. Where do the presidential candidates stand on social media censorship? We know where Biden stands since his lawyers argue that he has near monarchical power over social media speech," continued Bhattacharya. The candidate promising to protect free speech and hold censorious tech companies accountable ultimately won the day, putting Bhattacharya in a position where, if confirmed, he is unlikely to again be shut up and shut out. "Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America's biggest Health challengers, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease," Trump noted in his announcement. "Together, they will work hard to Make America Healthy Again!" If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Bhattacharya will oversee the world's top medical research agency, its $48 billion budget, and 27 institutes and centers. Like Blaze News? 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Conor McGregor was removed from popular online game Hitman after he was found liable for sexual assault by a jury in a civil case.McGregor, who plans to appeal the decision, will have to pay more than $262,000 (€250,000) to the victim. Nikita Hand filed a civil suit in early 2021 alleging that while intoxicated, McGregor and another man, James Lawrence, had sex with her without her consent in 2018. Criminal charges were not pursued.IO Interactive, the developer of the Hitman game, reacted promptly after the verdict, announcing that it was removing the former UFC champion from the game."In light of the recent court ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the decision to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effective immediately," the company wrote on X. "We take this matter very seriously and cannot ignore its implications. Consequently, we will begin removing all content featuring Mr. McGregor from our storefronts starting today." — (@) McGregor took to his social media the day following the verdict and apologized to his wife."People want to hear from me, I needed time. I know I made mistakes. Six years ago, I should have never responded to her outreaches. I should have shut the party down. I should never have stepped out on the woman I love the most in the world," McGregor wrote.The fighter continued, "That's all on me. As much as I regret it, everything that happened that night was consensual and all the witnesses present swore to that under oath."McGregor added that he has instructed his legal team to appeal the decision and that he must "move forward," not back. "I am beyond grateful to my family, friends and supporters all over the world who have stayed by my side. That's it. No more. Getting back to the gym- the fight game awaits!" — (@) McGregor is part of a paid, downloadable content pack in which gamers take on a mission to assassinate him before or while he is engaging in a fight to the death against an eccentric billionaire on an island-castle surrounded by an elite secret society.In recent years, McGregor has had many run-ins with law enforcement across the world. He has engaged in shattering bus windows and allegedly attacked fans in separate incidents in both Florida and Ireland.He was accused of assaulting an Italian musician in Rome and a woman on his yacht in Spain. Other allegations of sexual assault have been dropped against the fighter, as well.While it will be interesting to see if the IO Interactive team reinstates McGregor should the verdict be overturned, there will always be questions as to whether or not he should have been included in the game at all if his out-of-the-Octagon troubles were the reason for taking him out.McGregor has another court battle on the horizon. His former training partner Artem Lobov is suing him over the creation of his popular whiskey Proper Twelve, saying the liquor brand was originally his idea, the Irish Star reported.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Another report corroborates that the long-rumored iPhone Fold is no longer an idea but actually a product Apple wants to develop. This time, the news aggregator yeux1122 revealed that Cupertino has recently entered the "formal development process" with display companies to make this device a reality. While yeux1122 doesn't reveal when Apple plans to release this product or how long it will take to make the first working prototypes, the report aligns with a report that The Information published a few months ago. In July, the publication said Apple gave the iPhone Fold project a "V68" codename. At the time, The Information said Apple wanted to use a "clamshell" design for its foldable iPhone, which could make it similar to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip and Motorola’s Razr phones. As previously rumored, Cupertino has been struggling to eliminate a visible crease where the device's screen folds. However, the company apparently now believes it can overcome this issue. With the Galaxy Z Flip 6, Samsung was able to make the crease less visible. Although it’s still there, it’s becoming less prominent. In a couple of years, it’s possible it could completely disappear. By working closely with Samsung Display and other display manufacturers, it's possible that Apple might overcome this issue by the time it wants to release its first iPhone Fold by 2026. Apple could be readying the iPhone Fold for 2026 or 2027 The Information believes Apple started this project around 2020, but it might need a few more years until it’s completed. More interestingly, Korean outlet The Elec has recently learned that Apple is considering a 2026 or 2027 release date for a foldable device about the same size as the iPad mini. The report doesn’t call it a phone. Previous rumors said that Apple’s first foldable device might be a tablet rather than an iPhone.  While The Information believes a 2026 release makes more sense, The Elec points out that 2027 would mark the 20th anniversary of the iPhone and the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone with an OLED panel. The latter isn’t really a cause for celebration. The 2017 iPhone X had to be different because Apple celebrated the handset’s 10th anniversary. And the OLED screen allowed Apple to make an all-screen display in addition to the TrueDepth system. However, making a foldable iPhone in 2027 to mark the iPhone’s 20th anniversary would be a big deal. Thanks to this report, I now think this could be Apple’s ultimate goal, which is to reshape once again how we use and interact with our iPhones by introducing a foldable variant. Don't Miss: Apple’s foldable iPhone prototypes were just detailed by the most reliable source so far The post iPhone Fold is one step closer to actually becoming a real product appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Early Black Friday deals: Nintendo Switch games, $249 Oura Ring 3, $25 Crock-Pot, $100 Beats Pill, more Today’s deals: $849 M3 MacBook Air, $498 Samsung 55-inch smart TV, $30 Blink Video Doorbell, more 70mai has the best 4G dash cam deals of Black Friday 2024 Early Black Friday deals: $719 Black Apple Watch Ultra 2, 15% off PS5 consoles, $38 Sony headphones, more

The White House says three Americans long held in China have been released from custody.Politico first reported Wednesday that David Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung would be released in exchange for three unidentified Chinese citizens following years of talks between U.S....

South Korea's presidential office said the government would step up efforts to prepare response measures to potential U.S. tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, as domestic firms would inevitably be affected by them, the Yonhap News Agency reported.