Polygraph
Thursday 21 September 2023
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![Recep Tayyip Erdogan]()
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President
"The American judiciary is a full-fledged judiciary. So is the judiciary of Turkey. And you have to respect that. We are a state of law, and inside that state of law, this is how we lived, and this is how we will keep on living."
Read more...Despite claims of judicial independence, Erdogan has used Turkey’s courts to target dissent. -
![Mao Ning]()
Mao Ning
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson
“To say they [Chinese press outlets and social media users] ‘made up or spread disinformation’ is completely unfounded. If anyone was ‘making up or spreading disinformation’, it would be The New York Times, not them.”
Read more...At least five organizations that are authoritative in cybersecurity have independently verified that the Chinese government has created a massive network of social media users tasked with sowing discord in the United States. -
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Press TV
“In yet another attack spearheaded by the West against freedom of speech in Iran, the Australian government has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on a number of Iranian individuals and entities, including the English-language Press TV news network, on the anniversary of foreign-backed riots in the country.”
Read more...Australia sanctioned Iran’s state-run Press TV for airing forced confessions, not the exercise of "free speech," which Iranian authorities have denied its citizens through systematic repression. -
![Marina Zakharova]()
Marina Zakharova
chairwoman of the electoral commission in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Kherson region
"In total, 65.14% of the Kherson region’s voters took part in the voting."
Read more...Any form of Russian “elections” in Ukrainian war zones are illegal in the eyes of international law. Russia’s claims of high turnout are unverifiable. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“We’re not [punishing] anyone at all. Who are we [punishing]? This [foreign agent] law has been in force since 1937, I think, or 1938 in the USA, ours is almost a copy, only it’s much more liberal.”
Read more...The Russian government has been using the “foreign agent” law as an effective tool for public disrepute and criminal persecution of dissent, including in suppressing press freedom. -
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titan5151
TikTok user
Large lightning appears before earthquake in Morocco with unknown causes.
Read more...Social media users leverage videos of flashing lights in Morocco, some faked, to falsely pin Morocco earthquake on a U.S. weather weapon. -
![Vasily Golubev]()
Vasily Golubev
Governor of Russia’s Rostov Oblast
“Zinaida Vasilievna Ermolyeva … who was called Madame Penicillin… invented penicillin."
Read more...Penicillin was discovered by Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, Australian pathologist Howard Florey and British biochemist Ernst Boris Chain, for which they received a Nobel Prize. -
![“China4Tech” and other pro-China influencers on X]()
“China4Tech” and other pro-China influencers on X
“In China, this vlogger took apart a Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone, and all components are 100% developed/made by China (from Kirin9000S chip to the camera)! This shows that US tech blockade against Huawei failed!”
Read more...Huawei's new smartphone possesses 5G technology, which is beyond the threshold set by the U.S. The fact that it's on the market suggests China may be able to mass produce the restricted communications high tech. -
![Zabiullah Mujahid]()
Zabiullah Mujahid
Taliban spokesman
“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan does not interfere in the affairs of any institution to disrupt their work. We and our military are obliged to ensure their security.”
Read more...Taliban actions and policies, such as the exclusion of female humanitarian staff, inhibit the ability of aid to reach Afghans. -
![Sergey Naryshkin]()
Sergey Naryshkin
Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service
“…in no country in the world, wherever the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance invaded, neither the elementary order nor the pre-war standard of living of the local population was restored.”
Read more...Since its creation, NATO has conducted military missions in six conflicts. In four countries, the quality of life and order has improved significantly. In two others — Libya and Afghanistan — the situation remains turbulent. -
![Ilya Tsukanov]()
Ilya Tsukanov
Moscow-based correspondent for Sputnik
“The politician [Umerov] has played an active role in spreading blatant propaganda about the alleged mistreatment of the Crimean Tatar community by Russia in Crimea – claims that Crimean Tatar leaders actually living in the peninsula have repeatedly debunked.”
Read more...Russia’s oppression of the Crimean Tatars and systematic persecution of their leaders is well documented. -
![Vladimir Putin]()
Vladimir Putin
Russian President
"And while Russia clearly provided security guarantees for shipping under this deal, the other side used humanitarian corridors for terrorist attacks against Russian civilian and military facilities."
Read more...There is no evidence that Ukraine ever used the Black Sea grain corridor for any military purposes.
