As wildfires raged through Los Angeles, so did the conspiracy theories and misinformation about the natural disaster on social media. This happened even as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to end its US-based fact-checking programme.
>From false claims of looting to AI-generated images of the Hollywood sign engulfed in flames, fact-checking teams still working under Meta's programme scrambled to combat the surge in misleading content. Alan Duke, co-founder of fact-checking outlet Lead Stories, warned of the dangers, saying, “Cutting fact-checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department.” Mr Duke, a former CNN journalist and a Los Angeles resident, said. He said could see the fires – which killed at least 24 people – from his home as his team debunked viral made-up stories. One Instagram video falsely claimed looters were stealing from homes amid the fires. Fact-checkers from Lead Stories <https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/01/fact-check-video-does-not-show-looters-carrying-items-from-homes-amid-la-fires.html> clarified the video actually showed family members rescuing belongings. Meta labelled the post as misleading and reduced its reach. PolitiFact, another fact-checking partner, tackled claims on Threads that linked the fires to political conspiracies. One viral post falsely accused MAGA supporters of setting fires, while an AI-generated image showed the Hollywood sign in flames. PolitiFact debunked both. Partisan narratives further amplified the chaos. Incoming president Donald Trump used his platform to blame Democrats for the fires, while Elon Musk criticised diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, claiming, “DEI means people will DIE.” Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones escalated the rhetoric with baseless theories of a globalist plot, which Musk endorsed, writing, “True.” The conspiracy theories echoed previous disasters like the Maui wildfires in 2023, where claims about “space lasers” were used to spread fear and distrust. Mr Duke explained to CNN <https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/13/tech/meta-fact-checkers-wildfire-conspiracy-theories/index.html> the impact saying that these false claims “create distrust of emergency agencies that are actively responding to the disaster, making it more difficult for them during the crisis.”Meta CEO Zuckerberg announced plans to replace professional fact-checkers with a community-based system similar to X's Community Notes. But unlike journalists, Community Notes users aren't bound by ethical guidelines, raising concerns about them being accurate. While some X notes have effectively flagged false posts, many conspiracy theories, like Jones' “globalist plot” claim, remain unmarked. K Rajaram IRS 15125 On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 07:23, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < [email protected]> wrote: > > > -- > *Mar*Science without the Macro Paradigm > > > > Science has taken over all perception. It is perception without the > natural breathing, smelling and sensing. It scoffs at the very concept that > the Biosphere as a whole also perceives. Without an iota of consideration, > the champions of Science, mainly the Atheists assert that it is not > scientifically proved that all life forms interact through breathing, > smelling and sensing. They cannot even tolerate the idea that the Biosphere > as a whole has a symbiotic culture. > > Science itself has become the great Asthma, which simply does not allow > breathing and smelling, in the scientific investigations, by the humans. > Science, the Asthma, blocks the natural holistic perception. The Asthma > totally disables one to see the clear spectacle of animals belonging to > different species, conversing with each other by touching noses. Those > animals are desperately trying to get over the disability created by > technology and pollution, which removed the message content of the air > through smells. > > Science scoffs at all emotions. But the Holistic perception is based on > smelling and switching on the flow of the symbiotic emotional flows. For > science emotion is bias, the ultimate sin. As the humans cannot divorce > breathing, smelling, sensing and perceiving completely, the entire > perception is handed over to the computers. The computers are fed data, and > the data are processed by them, and they give the final verdict. > > The macro or the Holistic perception of the Biosphere as a whole, in which > the Human organism participates, can never be programmed on a computer. And > today we live as the cripples, without the ability to perceive > automatically by symbiotic breathing, smelling and sensing. > > Every organism can survive only when it participates in the macro emotion > bond flow. The macro emotional symbiotic bond flow is dynamic and it is the > basis of evolution, which in fact is a grand involution. > > When emotions are damned as bias, one loses one’s morale. The Degree > dangling, Basmasura with PhDs, the gigantic Saindhava with thousands of > heads, simply blocks all holistic perception today. > > Today, very casually without feeling any emotion, all intellectuals state > that mankind is committing suicide. No attempt is made to save all from the > suicide. The gigantic Saindhava has left no scope at all to save nature and > make way for the holistic perception based on breathing. > > It is for each individual to live holistically in whatever nature is > available and create the Butterfly effect of reviving the macro paradigm. > Realize that every organism is a person with emotions and feelings and not > just livestock. In free and healthy nature, you feel the diverse feelings > of organisms, creating a basic flexibility in your methods of perception. > The basic character of the universe is infinity of infinities. > > When you were in your mother’s womb you grew perceiving along with the > cell splicing. Even after birth the cell splicing and increase of > perceptions go together. When you live in new and new revelations from > nature and live as nature, you cannot become old. The mathematical number > of the cells may not be increasing, but your capacity of perception and > understanding increases. But you need the free and healthy nature, to > experience new and new perceptions. Nature keeps you young and active by > creating new and new revelations. But when you participate in the routine > murder of nature as economic activity, you are actually reducing your own > perceptions and understanding. When you go to bed just think whether you > spent your day happily or facing problems. In free and healthy nature, > there are no problems without solutions. Infinity means the basic infinity > of paths and opportunities. In free nature problems happen with paths of > solutions also simultaneously. Solutions give automatic relief from > tension.Nature, when free automatically gives relief. > > It is for every University, to revive the basic macro paradigm, by > starting ‘The Free Nature Parks Without Human Tampering’. Nature has the > basic fundamental right for total freedom, the freedom for the free > symbiotic evolution. > > YM Sarma > > Chat gpt > > YM Sarma's essay presents a critique of modern science, particularly its > reductionist approach and detachment from the natural world. He suggests > that science, especially in its current form, has lost touch with the > holistic and emotional aspects of life, reducing perception to mere data > and ignoring the interconnectedness of all living beings. According to > Sarma, the scientific community, particularly atheists, dismisses the idea > that life forms communicate and interact through a symbiotic relationship, > which includes breathing, smelling, and sensing. > > He draws attention to the dangers of this mechanistic worldview, where > emotional connections are seen as biases, and perceiving the world > holistically is discouraged. This, in his view, leads to a lack of care for > nature and a disregard for the deeper emotional bonds that sustain life and > evolution. Sarma calls for a revival of the "macro paradigm," which > emphasizes the interconnectedness of all life and the importance of > experiencing and understanding nature as a whole. He advocates for the > creation of "Free Nature Parks Without Human Tampering," where nature can > evolve freely and humans can reconnect with their holistic perceptions. > > The essay challenges modern science to reconsider its limitations and > embrace a more integrated view of the world—one that includes the emotional > and perceptive capacities of all living organisms and recognizes the > infinite possibilities inherent in the natural world. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopcLnUUpXFw5Xe2cvebhkceMpcAYsT2WOXWcsu_Sz96mg%40mail.gmail.com.
