Super common tactic used by any entity with enough resources that is unable to directly stop the information from being spread.
Here’s a notable example:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/26/mesmerising...
Here’s a notable example:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/26/mesmerising...
Reminds me of the headcanon that Disney released "Frozen" so when you search for [Disney frozen] you find the movie instead of the stories about Walt Disney and cryopreservation.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing
Yet it’s somehow still held up as a lie. The NHS gets something like 30-40% more funding since brexit.
If we take 2016 and compare against 2023 for NHS budget, we see a figure of 124bn compared to a projected 152bn for this year.
If we use the bank of england inflation calculator (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...)
It says 124bn in 2016 would be the equivalent of 155bn in 2023.
So, we're currently funding the NHS less today than we did in 2016 in real terms. The Brexit bus suggested an additional 18bn per year could be made available for the NHS. If this was the case, this would work out as an additional 22bn with inflation.
Anyhow, lies, damn lies and statistics :)
The other oft-trotted lie is that the NHS is "awash with middle managers!" when the manager to frontline staff ratio is far lower than in comparable private sector companies.
Plainly speaking, the NHS is short on doctors and nurses, short on beds, and downstream services like care homes are not numerous enough, leading to bed blocking. It's also not had funding to keep up with an ageing population. Far less money is spent on the NHS than on private healthcare + medicare and medicaid in the US, and less per person than comparable EU countries.
Two months after being accused of sexual harassment by a flight attendant.
This was all before Twitter of course.
Not disagreeing, it’s just an interesting argument to make about a supposedly genius billionaire.
Oops, I may have dragged ChatGPT into it now too.