We rate Politifact’s story on WEF intentions as one big fat lie

THE global media and its fact-checking network has a two-fold mission: To run a suppression operation against non-mainstream media and secondly, to reassure its clients that the globalist program of the World Economic Forum really is benevolent.

This is not based on critical thinking, or facts, but an approach that merely takes the WEF at its word.

Politifact, an arm of the Poynter Institute, supposedly fact-checks political claims, and repeatedly links to Reuters Fact Check in its reports. Politifact says, in a headline statement of fact, that “The Great Reset is not a conspiracy to force changes in economic systems”.

And how do they come to that conclusion? Well, because the WEF simply denies it is pushing anything dictatorial, which we will show conclusively to be a lie. Politifact says the WEF objective is for governments around the world to seize the “rare but narrow window of opportunity” for social and economic change offered by the pandemic and “to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future.”

So there you have it, suggests Politifact. It’s clearly a benevolent and entirely innocent objective and nothing about a conspiracy to get control over people! (see full text of article below)

Firstly on the issue of facts, Glenn Beck has clearly exposed what can only be described as a totalitarian food and social control agenda posted on the WEF’s own website.

It’s contained in a “smart cities” plan produced by the UK-based Arup Group “a global collective of designers, engineers, planners, project managers and technical experts”, who also quote extensively from Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution book.

As described by Beck, Arup is gaming what life in a 2030 smart city will look like. A prominent feature is food control and, says the plan, your family will eat “zero amounts of meat and zero amounts of dairy”. The dietary regime imposed by the smart city authorities will be 2500 calories per person, a day.

But it doesn’t stop there. In the 2030 smart city, each person will receive only three new clothing items per year – which of course will “save the planet” from the shocking amount of discarded, unrecycled clothing. And then, most importantly, there will be zero privately-owned vehicles to choke the roads and pollute the atmosphere.

But Politifact, Reuters Fact Check and other members of the international fact-checking network have been reassuring everyone that there is no sinister economic control agenda being contemplated by the WEF.

One might ask the fact-checkers in what former totalitarian society was control of food and transport not a dominating feature of regime policy?

And then we have Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s e-Safety Commissioner and WEF contributor, providing the evidence that the WEF in not only about food, clothing, and transport control, but information control.

Inman Grant came on to the WEF as a corporate “super woman” of the digital world, having risen through the ranks of Microsoft over 17 years and, as noted by the WEF, “serving as one of the company’s first and longest-standing government relations professionals, ultimately in the role of Global Director for Safety & Privacy Policy and Outreach.”

The WEF further notes: “At Twitter, she set up and drove the company’s policy, safety & philanthropy programs across Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia.”

What the WEF fails to mention is that during her time with Twitter (before it became X) the platform launched a massive censorship operation against so-called “misinformation”, shutting down thousands of accounts that were spreading “unsavoury, unapproved information”, for instance, the posts of climate change deniers, “trans-rights” opponents or other viewpoints considered “too right wing”.

The WEF notes that as Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, she “plays an important global role as Chair of the Child Dignity Alliance’s Technical Working Group and as a Board Member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance”.

The WEF profile continues: “She was recently named one of Australia’s most influential women by the Australian Financial Review and a leading Australian in Foreign Affairs by the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2020, the World Economic Forum and Apolitical appointed the Commissioner as one of the #Agile50, the world’s most influential leaders revolutionising government.”

So the WEF, one of Australia’s biggest mainstream media groups and a global network of 2 million public servants called Apolitical, all agree that this amazing woman is one of the top 50 world-leading revolutionaries in government.

So why did this modern-day wonder woman launch a prosecution and massive fines against Chris Elston a.k.a. Billboard Chris, an anti-child sex change campaigner, merely for sharing a Daily Mail article criticising the suitability of Sydney transgender activist Teddy Cook to be appointed to a World Health Organisation’s “panel of experts”, which advises on global transgender policy.

After Cook complained to the eSafety Commission, Inman Grant exercised her considerable censorship and prosecutorial powers, and ordered X, the US-based social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and Elston to take down the post.

X owner Elon Musk and Elston were understandably miffed at this Australian-based upstart threatening massive daily fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and launched legal counter-offensives. Elston was supported by the Alliance Defending Freedom International and legally represented by the Australian-based Human Rights Law Alliance.

Both Elston and X recently won their cases against the upstart e-Safety Commissioner, who knew exactly what she was doing in attempting to set a legal precedent justifying the censorship powers she had been working to get entrenched globally on behalf of the WEF.

So if Teddy Cook took offence at the post, why didn’t he also lodge a complaint against the Daily Mail? Probably because he and Inman Grant thought it would be easier to pick off an individual rather than a mainstream news outlet. What they didn’t count on was the widespread blow-back against the move and Musk’s response.

HRLA Principal Lawyer John Steenhof told The Catholic Weekly the case was an important win for freedom of speech in Australia and was “part of a global fight against government censorship”.

“In Western societies, there should be vigorous public debate about contentious ideas and political movements, particularly the dangers to children and to women’s rights presented by transgender ideology,” said Steenhof.

“This decision will safeguard every Australian’s right to speak truth in the public square even on issues that are in opposition to the political diktats of those in power. We’re proud to stand with Billboard Chris.”

So, the Australian e-Safety Commissioner overplayed her hand and proved that she and the WEF she works with do indeed have a totalitarian control agenda and the mainstream media fact-checkers now have egg on their faces.

Following is Politifact’s 2022 report denying claims by conservative writer Liz Wheeler that the WEF and the Great Reset advocates replacing capitalism with an economic system that is “kind of socialism, kind of communism” but “mostly just fascism.”

As readers will see, the “fact-check” is based heavily on denials by the WEF and other fact-checks by Reuters. There is no critical appraisal of the WEF’s policy statements. The fact checkers also like to use red-herrings to justify their negative stance or clearly absurd claims from dubious sources.

The Politifact text follows: “In June 2020, as countries were still reeling from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum pitched a set of policy ideas it called “The Great Reset.”

The international organization wanted governments around the world to seize the “rare but narrow window of opportunity” for social and economic change offered by the pandemic “to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future.”

What were its broader goals?

The initiative aimed to make markets fairer through increased coordination among governments and improved trade agreements; to ensure that government spending advances shared goals like equality and sustainability; and to use innovation to support the public good by addressing health and social challenges, according to a June 2020 article by Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum.

But according to conspiracy theories about the plan, the initiative advocated that nations  eliminate all debt, install an expansive social credit system, abolish private ownership, exterminate sections of the global population, create a global currency, impose a police state and create an alternative soccer tournament in Europe.

Those claims have all been debunked by fact-checkers. Yet, conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler claimed in a Facebook video that the Great Reset aims to replace capitalism with an economic system that is “kind of socialism, kind of communism” but “mostly just facism.” The video was originally shared on Feb. 26 but recently began recirculating.

The video was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) 

The World Economic Forum has repeatedly denied unfounded allegations that The Great Reset is a secret plan orchestrated by international elites to use the pandemic to change social and economic systems in order to create a global totalitarian regime.

Adrian Monck, the international organization’s managing director, told PolitiFact that Wheeler’s claims are “ludicrous” and are being perpetuated by “disinformation actors.”

An October 2020 article about The Great Reset written by Schwab does not ask countries to replace capitalism with another economic system. 

“The reset that we need is not a revolution or a shift to some new ideology,” Schwab wrote at the time. “Rather, it should be seen as a pragmatic step toward a more resilient, cohesive, and sustainable world.”

The BBC reported in 2021 that the plan’s lack of specificity plus the fact that it came from an influential group “provided fertile ground for conspiracy theories to grow.”

Schwab advocated in 2019 and 2020 for a “virtuous” capitalist system, in which companies “pay their fair share of taxes, show zero tolerance for corruption, uphold human rights throughout their global supply chains, and advocate for a competitive level playing field.” 

The Great Reset conspiracy theory was initially boosted by Republicans, became popular among QAnon believers, and can include anti-Semitic elements.

We reached out to Wheeler for comment but did not receive a reply.

Our ruling

A Facebook post says the Great Reset advocates replacing capitalism with an economic system that is “kind of socialism, kind of communism” but “mostly just fascism.”

The World Economic Forum never advocated for the creation of a totalitarian world government or the replacement of capitalism with another economic system. There is no evidence to support this theory, and it has been thoroughly debunked. We rate the claim False.”

CairnsNews.org rates Politifact’s story on the WEF and its policies as a compilation of monstrous lies.