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The View from the Trenches of the Alternative Media
The View from the Trenches of the Alternative Media What’s scarce in a world awash in free content and nearly infinite entertainment content? After 3,701 posts (from May 2005 to the present), here are my observations of the Alternative Media from the muddy trenches. It’s increasingly difficult to make a living creating content outside the […]
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks In an age of “fake news” and disinformation, in which climate science deniers have been elected to the head of some of the world’s largest governments, the UN climate talks continue to act as a stage for those who wish to cast […]
The Perils of Banning “Fake News”
The Perils of Banning “Fake News” When the printing press was invented in the mid-1400s, Europe faced radical and unprecedented changes. Ultimately revolutionizing the circulation of information, the printing press dislodged the monopoly of information and ideas. As Gutenberg reformed the printing system around 1440, the technology quickly expanded. According to some accounts, there were […]
Smear Slander Rinse and Repeat
Smear Slander Rinse and Repeat Frans Masereel Montmartre 1925 The way ‘news’ is reported through known outlets changes so fast hardly a soul notices that news as we once knew it no longer exists. This is due to a large extent to the advent of the internet in general, and social media in particular. On […]
Seriously Crazy Idea: Trump Proposes US State-Run News Agency
Seriously Crazy Idea: Trump Proposes US State-Run News Agency Trump is blasting CNN again today. OK, but his alleged “solution” is seriously crazy. Here are some counter-Tweets that I agree with: oat on Twitter “@realDonaldTrump Holy Christ. You’re advocating for a state-run press. This is possibly the most dangerous idea you’ve floated. And… twitter.com Claude […]
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn Photo Source Edwardx | CC BY 2.0 The BBC spreads fake news. We all know that. From the uncritical parroting of the British government’s Iraqi weapons of mass destruction claims to the unchallenged lies spouted by […]
Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor
Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor Photo Source Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0 Facebook and other social media companies give governments free reign to censor political dissent on their websites – and that is not “fake news.” Facebook’s unholy alliance with government actors includes Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. These […]
The UK Government Is Banning The “Fake News” Label To Facilitate Censorship
The UK Government Is Banning The “Fake News” Label To Facilitate Censorship The UK is banning the term “fake news” in official documents. The motivation behind this move is that the government thinks that the word is too broad and is urging people to employ more specific phrases such as “disinformation” and “misinformation” instead. This […]
How the media encourages – and sustains – political warfare
How the media encourages – and sustains – political warfare Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been waging war against the American press by dismissing unfavorable reports as “fake news” and calling the media “the enemy of the American people.” As a countermeasure, The Washington Post has publicly fact-checked every claim that Trump has labeled […]
OPINION: CBS’s & NPR’s Rabidly False ‘News’ About the Khashoggi Case
OPINION: CBS’s & NPR’s Rabidly False ‘News’ About the Khashoggi Case CBS It’s a lie to say, as CBS ‘News’ did on October 24th, that Saudi Crown Prince Salman couldn’t have done what Turkey says he did in the Khashoggi case — couldn’t do it, because it’s not in the Saud family’s “DNA” to do […]
Facebook’s New Troll-Crushing “War Room” Confirms Surveillance By Corporation Is The New America
Facebook’s New Troll-Crushing “War Room” Confirms Surveillance By Corporation Is The New America Facebook on Wednesday briefed journalists on its latest attempt to stop fake news during the election season, offering an exclusive tour of a windowless conference room at its California headquarters, packed with millennials monitoring Facebook user behavior trends around the clock, said The Verge. […]
The risks of synthetic biology in the information society
The risks of synthetic biology in the information society Knowledge is power. The instructions for making viruses from synthetic strands of DNA are on the internet. And, the strands themselves are available for purchase online. It’s called synthetic biology. Right now it’s not easy to get the strands to you need to make dangerous viruses […]
Does Saudi Arabia Own Donald Trump?
DOES SAUDI ARABIA OWN DONALD TRUMP? ON TUESDAY MORNING, President Donald Trump tweeted: “For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!” ✔ For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi […]
Fake News and Weaponized Bots: How Algorithms Inflate Profiles, Spread Disinfo and Disrupt Democracy
Fake News and Weaponized Bots: How Algorithms Inflate Profiles, Spread Disinfo and Disrupt Democracy Photo Source Mike Corbett | CC BY 2.0 Algorithms are getting so sophisticated that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell which online comments are real and which are generated by “bots”; which sites are genuinely popular and which are generating […]
