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Tuesday, September 1, 2026
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'The Weaponization of ‘Disinformation’: Inside the UN Plan to Control Speech Online
A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while clamping down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking alarm among free-speech advocates and top U.S. lawmakers.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all stakeholders: governments, regulatory authorities, civil society, and the platforms themselves.” in a 59-page report released this month.
The approach includes the imposition of global policies, through institutions such as governments and businesses, that seek to stop the spread of various forms of speech while promoting objectives such as “cultural diversity” and “gender equality.”
In particular, the U.N. agency aims to create an “Internet of Trust” through a focus on what it calls “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “hate speech,” and “conspiracy theories.”
Examples of expression flagged to be stopped or restricted include concerns about elections, public health measures, and advocacy that could constitute “incitement to discrimination.”
Critics have warned that allegations of “disinformation” and “conspiracy theories” have increasingly been used by powerful forces in government and Big Tech to silence true information and even core political speech.
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Just this month, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee released a report blasting the “pseudoscience of disinformation.”
Among other concerns, the committee found that this “pseudoscience” has been “weaponized” by what lawmakers refer to as the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” the goal of which is to silence constitutionally protected political speech, mostly by conservatives.
“The pseudoscience of disinformation is now—and has always been—nothing more than a political ruse most frequently targeted at communities and individuals holding views contrary to the prevailing narratives,” states the congressional report, titled, “The Weaponization of ‘Disinformation’ Pseudo-Experts and Bureaucrats.”
Indeed, many of the policies called for by UNESCO have already been implemented by U.S.-based digital platforms, often at the behest of the Biden administration, the latest congressional report makes clear.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers nevertheless expressed alarm about the UNESCO plan.
“I have repeatedly and publicly criticized the Biden administration’s misguided decision to rejoin UNESCO, putting U.S. taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) told The Epoch Times regarding the social media plan.
Calling UNESCO a “deeply flawed entity,” Mr. McCaul said he’s especially concerned that the organization “promotes the interests of authoritarian regimes—including the Chinese Communist Party.”
Indeed, UNESCO, like many other U.N. agencies, includes multiple members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its leadership ranks, such as Deputy Director-General Xing Qu.
While being marketed as a plan to uphold free expression, the new UNESCO regulatory regime calls for international censorship by “independent” regulators who are “shielded from political and economic interests.”
“National, regional, and global governance systems should be able to cooperate and share practices ... in addressing content that could be permissibly restricted under international human rights law and standards,” the report states.
Unlike the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits any governmental infringement on the right to free speech or free press, UNESCO points to various international “human rights” instruments that it says should determine what speech to restrict.
These agreements include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which states that restricting freedom of expression must be provided for by law and must also serve a “legitimate aim.”
In a recent review of the United States, a U.N. human rights committee called for changes to the U.S. Constitution and demanded that the U.S. government do more to stop and punish “hate speech” to comply with the ICCPR.
New scans push Turkey’s Noah’s Ark formation closer to proof
The current excavation, led by archaeology professor Cenk Atilla of Sivas Cumhuriyet University, began fieldwork on June 28, 2026, near the Doğubayazıt district. Around 20 researchers and students from five countries have produced three-dimensional models of the formation, recorded GPS coordinates, and mapped the site before moving into underground surveys with radar systems also used by the U.S. Air Force.
“We tried to understand whether there are cavities, wood remains or other fragments underground that could have formed the shape of a ship,” Atilla told the Turkish newspaper Milliyet.
What the Formation Is
The Durupinar formation was first identified from aerial photographs in 1959 by Turkish army mapping officer İlhan Durupınar. Seen from above, it traces the outline of a large vessel, tapered at one end with a long central body, and measures approximately 164 meters in length. Turkey placed the site under protection in 1987 as a cultural and natural asset, though the government has never officially designated it as the site of the ark.
The dimensional argument has always been central to the case for Durupinar. Genesis gives the ark’s measurements directly: “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred amot, its width fifty amot, and its height thirty amot” (Genesis 6:15). An amah (plural amot) is the Biblical cubit, roughly 45 centimeters. At that standard, 300 amotcomes to approximately 135 meters. Researchers working with the longer Egyptian royal cubit, about 52.4 centimeters, arrive at a figure closer to 157 meters, which lines up more closely with the measurements cited by the current research team. The comparison is suggestive, not conclusive, since ancient cubit standards varied and the formation’s own dimensions are measured differently depending on the source.
In 2019, a documentary team led by Cem Sertesen, who had spent 22 years searching for the ark, worked with computer engineer and archaeologist Andrew Jones and geophysicist John Larsen to scan beneath the formation using 3D imaging technology, sending electric signals underground through cables. “These are the actual images of the Noah’s Ark,” Sertesen told the Hurriyet Daily News. “They are neither fake nor simulation. They show the entire ship buried underground.” He added a caveat that has echoed through every subsequent phase of research: “It’s a ship, but it’s too early to call it Noah’s Ark. We have to do a lot of work.”
In 2021, a separate team conducted Electrical Resistivity Tomography, or ERT, surveys and reported finding what they described as a man-made boat structure beneath the ground.
A more formal academic study followed in December 2022, when a team from Istanbul Technical University, Andrew University and Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University collected 30 soil and rock samples from the site. Their analysis, led by researchers specializing in geophysics, chemistry and geoarchaeology, dated human activity in the region to between 5500 and 3000 BCE. Professor Faruk Kaya, involved in that research, was careful to separate the dating from the ark claim itself. “With the dating, it is not possible to say that the ship is here,” Kaya said. “Extensive research is required for this to emerge.” The three universities agreed to continue joint research in the years that followed.
Andrew Jones’s continued involvement is notable. He now leads the research group Noah’s Ark Scans, whose 2026 radar work, carried out with Dr. Khosrow Bakhtar’s BakhtarRadar imaging system, produced the volumetric images of the underground structures reported this year. The site has moved, step by step, from a single aerial photograph in 1959 to electric-signal imaging in 2019, ERT surveys in 2021, dated soil samples in 2022, and now a multi-level radar map paired with nearly a thousand planned soil samples in 2026.
Atilla’s team plans to move from radar mapping to targeted core drilling, which would allow physical samples and camera access to the cavities identified so far. Laboratory results on the current soil samples are expected within two to three months, with the full research program running through 2027.
Congo reports more than 6,000 Ebola cases, nearly 3,000 deaths
So far, nearly 3,000 people have died in the country's worst Ebola epidemic.
The announcement on Monday from the country's health authorities shows that the outbreak is worse than the epidemic that lasted from 2018 to 2020.
According to figures confirmed by the country, 2,911 people have died, while 1,366 have recovered out of 6,041 confirmed cases.
In the latest epidemic, the outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo variant.