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Paul D. Thacker
Personal blog · disinformationchronicle.substack.compoliticsscience
Paul D. Thacker writes The DisInformation Chronicle, a personal blog at disinformationchronicle.substack.com about politics and science. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Paul D. Thacker's Substack on disinformation researchers, the CCDH, the Twitter Files, COVID lab-leak origins and PR ties. Commenters mostly cite its posts as sources for claims on these topics.
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Investigative journalism dedicated to helping the world understand scientific disinformation. Click to read The DisInformation Chronicle, by Paul D. Thacker,
Most-linked posts?
- /p/election-exclusive-british-advisors3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-26
What Hacker News says?
The wider Anglosphere is pushing this too. One organization behind it in both the UK and the US is the UK Labour Party. Yes, you read that correctly - high level Labour party operatives formed a nonprofit in the US to lobby for misinformation legislation, to ban X, and to pressure various other websites into deleting content. > CCDH also held meetings with federal legislators while pushing for “change in USA” toward…
Comment linking /p/election-exclusive-british-advisors
on “Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court”Submitted Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media as a story · 213 points
HN discussionhttps://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/leaked-interv... KAISER: Okay, so since you brought it up, kind of skipping around here, but so as you know, as you may not have seen the story. But we had heard it too, that there's going to be a policy canceling collaborations, foreign collaborations. BHATTACHARYA: No, that's false. KAISER: Is there going to be some sort of policy that... BHATTACHARYA: There was a pol…
Comment linking /p/leaked-interview-with-nih-director
on “NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions”Submitted Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC as a story · 108 points
HN discussion> There is now evidence firmly against lab leak and firmly in favour of natural origins, covered in depth by a domain expert here... A counter: https://ayjchan.medium.com/evidence-for-a-natural-origin-of-... As for Angie Rasmussen - she is hardly the dispassionate scientist that you seem to want to portray her as, in your post[0] [0] https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/a-toxic-milie...
Comment linking /p/a-toxic-milieu-dominated-by-opportunists
on “Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis”Submitted Catching Errors in Studies That Deny COVID19 May Have Started in a Wuhan Lab as a story · 8 points
HN discussionUrl changed from https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/weve-unlocked... , which points to this.
Comment linking /p/weve-unlocked-the-article-weber-shandwick
on “Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC”Submitted Leaked Interview with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI don't know if you've intentionally misunderstood me or if I was hard to understand. This is not about one of those "just 30 years away"-technologies and their startups. This is about EXISTING nuclear reactors and people who want to keep them running or build more of them. Their representatives on the anti-social networks are people like Shellenberger and his "Institute" selling the "green nuclear" idea while sprea…
Comment linking /p/the-new-denial-is-delay-at-the-breakthrough?s=r
on “US companies partner on nuclear recycling technology”Submitted Lies, Damned Lies, and Fact Checks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAssuming Nature is correct that climate change costs just under 1% of GDP[1] in terms of extreme weather event costs. As an exercise, let’s double it to 2% of GDP. Now, given that climate mitigation is projected to cost 1-7% of GDP [2]. Economically, trying to “solve” the climate costs as much or more than it saves. It also results in a lower quality of life. For example, people not using their air conditioners beca…
Comment linking /p/nih-scientist-testifies-government
on “Climate Pulse”More importantly, what happens when the gatekeeers can't block news items like this interview with the former head of the CDC any more, talking about how the US helped fund the virus and covered up the fact? [0] The same people who were lying about treatments, and running faudulent scientific studies like the surgisphere studies [1] [1] Bugs me a lot, because there was no investigation as to why they did it, and no…
Comment linking /p/former-cdc-director-robert-redfield
on “‘I’m Dropping My Covid Hubris,’ Vows a Top Immunologist”Facebook received the same info as Twitter, looked into it, and rejected it because it had no basis. Reporters accepted the info from the group without looking into who was funding them or what expertise they might have. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/twitter-files... They're basically a dark money group that attacks organizations they don't like, and it's good to see Musk punching back at this nonse…
Comment linking /p/twitter-files-who-are-the-people
on “Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets”These are not researchers, but political activists who spread misinformation. NPR uncritically printed info from these activists without looking into their funding or methods. Facebook received the same misinfo from these 'researchers' and rejected it. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/twitter-files...
Comment linking /p/twitter-files-who-are-the-people
on “Musk sues disinformation researchers, claiming they are driving away advertisers”The BBC omits that this humble "social media campaigner" is a former Labour strategist [1,2], the CCDH he leads was founded by another Labour strategist and current Downing Street Chief of Staff [1,3], and said CCDH's explicit goal was to "Kill Musk's Twitter" [4], and their tactics are not to inform audiences about disinformation, so that they can make informed viewing decisions. No, their tactics are to deplatform…
Comment linking /p/election-exclusive-british-advisors
on “US judge blocks detention of British social media campaigner”"Kill Musk's Twitter" was literally a Centre for Countering Digital Hate agenda item on a meeting with Senators in the US. The CCDH was started by advisors of Kier Starmer (one who is now his Chief of Staff). It is 100% a left wing pressure group. I don't see how anyone call it a conspiracy theory any more. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/election-excl...
Comment linking /p/election-exclusive-british-advisors
on “What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate”The British Prime Minister's chief of staff started an anti-misinformation pressure group called the "Centre for Countering Digital Hate" largely designed to stop Twitter because they didn't like its lurch to the right. This is just a new front in this war. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/election-excl...
Comment linking /p/election-exclusive-british-advisors
on “UK Officials could face US entry ban over Twitter policy”
