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American Think Tanks Are Hired Purveyors of Fake News
American Think Tanks Are Hired Purveyors of Fake News A couple of decades or more ago when I was still in Washington, otherwise known as the snake pit, I was contacted by a well-financed group that offered me, a Business Week and Scripps Howard News Service columnist with access as a former editor also […]
Constructing Hope: A Discussion of “Green Earth”
Constructing Hope: A Discussion of “Green Earth” Neither hope nor its cousin joy are to be confused with optimism. The latter tends to be more a quality of temperament than a realistic assessment of prospects. As for the former, well, you have to go looking for them, or even, laboriously, construct them for yourself, at […]
The “Fake News” Crusade to “Protect” You from Free Speech
The “Fake News” Crusade to “Protect” You from Free Speech Even if judgements against some of these websites might be overturned in courts, doing so is clearly an enormous financial burden, as the would-be censors doubtless know. But what a handy way not to have one’s policies questioned — especially, one assumes, during elections. Attempts […]
Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’
Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’ January 30, 2018 Nothing could have more perfectly exemplified the establishment’s use of Orwellian Newspeak than Facebook’s latest move to censor independent thought under the pretense of caring about the emotional wellbeing of the masses. The media giant has been documented live-streaming murders, suicides, rapes, […]
Untying PropOrNot: Who They Are … and a Look at 2017’s Biggest Fake News Story
Untying PropOrNot: Who They Are … and a Look at 2017’s Biggest Fake News Story A little over a year ago, the deep-state graced the world with Propornot. Thanks to them, 2017 became the year of fake news. Every news website and opinion column now had the potential to be linked to the Steele dossier […]
Is “Fake News” Really Fake?
Is “Fake News” Really Fake? The more complicated a situation, the more open to interpretation it is. The term “fake news” has been much in the news since the 2016 election. Unfortunately, it is not usually defined in any clear fashion. The implication is that the media engages in deliberate distortion and misrepresentation of the […]
Nobody Cares About ‘the News’
Nobody Cares About ‘the News’ In his mordant novel Scoop, Evelyn Waugh has one of his characters explain what “The News” is: News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead. There is a great deal of wisdom […]
Fake News: Defining and Defeating
Fake News: Defining and Defeating Real techniques for identifying fake news and disinformation Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to present his media critics with so-called “fake news awards,” it is more important than ever to define what “fake news” actually is, and what it is not. President Trump’s repeated accusations of fake news are […]
Facebook Will Trust Its Untrustworthy Users to Rank the Trustworthiness of News
Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images FACEBOOK WILL TRUST ITS UNTRUSTWORTHY USERS TO RANK THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF NEWS FACEBOOK USERS, BY and large, are not very good at differentiating between what’s fact and what’s false. Many users will eagerly share both reliable news and the fake stuff without any hesitation. It happens because users either want the falsehoods […]
Macron Is Using the “Fake News” Excuse to Attack Press Freedom
Macron Is Using the “Fake News” Excuse to Attack Press Freedom Only on the free market of ideas can information be checked and double-checked. In press statements for the beginning of this year, French president Emmanuel Macron announced his plans for cracking down on fake news. Haunted by the controversial Macron Leaks towards the end […]
There’s No ‘Fake News’ In Holland?
There’s No ‘Fake News’ In Holland? Following President Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Olympics this week, we wondered just how widespread the belief in the inaccuracy of the news worldwide really is. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, the growing phenomenon of fake news has exacerbated fractured attitudes on the accuracy of the news media, especially on matters such […]
Media Lies About Fake News
Media Lies About Fake News A major new Gallup report that was issued on January 16th headlined “American Views: Trust, Media and Democracy” (it’s issued in conjunction with the Knight Foundation) and it finds that “Internet-only news websites” are the least-trusted of all newsmedia. 54% trusted “Your local newspaper.” 52% trusted “National network news.” 51% […]
Can Fake News Be Outlawed?
PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP/Getty Images Can Fake News Be Outlawed? French President Emmanuel Macron used the occasion of an annual New Year’s press conference this year to propose a new law to prevent the spread of disinformation online. But even if France’s restrictions work as intended, fake news is a global problem, and it will require […]
The Real News We Ignore at Our Peril
The Real News We Ignore at Our Peril This is the threat to our democracy, not Fake News. And Exhibit A is our failed war in Afghanistan As defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld used to entertain (and befuddle) reporters with his song-and-dance about Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns. This last category—“things we don’t know […]
Facebook Introducing Sweeping Changes: Will Prioritze Only “Trustworthy” News
Facebook Introducing Sweeping Changes: Will Prioritze Only “Trustworthy” News In the latest move that is set to infuriate news organizations that are not deemed “trustworthy”, Facebook is set to introduce “sweeping changes” to its newsfeed as early as next week, prioritizing trustworthy sites and removing “clickbait” and low quality news publishers, while promoting posts from […]
