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US Opens 2018 with Fake-News Bang, Suggests Russia Plotting to Cut Trans-Atlantic Internet Cables
US Opens 2018 with Fake-News Bang, Suggests Russia Plotting to Cut Trans-Atlantic Internet Cables Well, that didn’t take long. Just five days into 2018, and the American fake news industry is already up and running, churning out tasteless whoppers faster than Burger King. Wired magazine has joined the greasy ranks of other Western mythmakers now fueling a […]
First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News”
Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News” YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, the official Twitter account of Brazil’s Federal Police (its FBI equivalent) posted an extraordinary announcement. The bureaucratically nonchalant tone it used belied its significance. The tweet, at its core, purports to […]
Ghosts in the Propaganda Machine
Ghosts in the Propaganda Machine S. Mangal’s social media profile and author photo. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question […]
The Washington Post Also Misreported CNN’s False WikiLeaks Story
The Washington Post Also Misreported CNN’s False WikiLeaks Story I left on holiday just as the news was breaking about multiple mainstream media outlets independently reporting a spectacularly false story about WikiLeaks, Donald Trump and Russiagate, and I was pleased to return to find they’d received their much-deserved beatdown for it. One fact that doesn’t […]
French President Macron Demands Anti-Fake-News Law “To Protect Democracy”
French President Macron Demands Anti-Fake-News Law “To Protect Democracy” Following Germany’s (and Brussels) lead to tyrannical repression of any free speech in Europe, French President Macron said on Wednesday he would overhaul French media legislation this year to fight the spread of “fake news.” As Reuters reports, since he was elected last year, Macron has […]
Dystopian Vietnam Launches 10,000-Strong Cyber-Unit To Combat “Fake News”
Dystopian Vietnam Launches 10,000-Strong Cyber-Unit To Combat “Fake News” Reuters has revealed a rather disturbing Orwellian tale of Communist-ruled Vietnam marching towards a complete censorship of the internet. Government officials have announced a new, 10,000-strong military cyber warfare unit used to combat ‘fake news’, amid a much larger crackdown on critics of the state. The announcement […]
Facebook Ditches Its “Fake News Flag” After People Shared Flagged Articles Even More
Facebook Ditches Its “Fake News Flag” After People Shared Flagged Articles Even More Roughly one year ago Facebook promised to eradicate “fake news” from its platform by “flagging” articles that were deemed inaccurate by their hand-selected “fact checkers” (A.K.A. “liberal propagandists”)…we wrote all about it in a post entitled “Facebook Launches Campaign To Combat ‘Fake […]
Designing Against Misinformation
Designing Against Misinformation Updated treatment for misinformation in News Feed using Related Articles Scrolling through News Feed, it can be hard to judge what stories are true or false. Should you trust everything that you see, even if it comes from someone whom you don’t know well? If you’ve never heard of an article’s publisher, but […]
The Internet is Already Broken
The Internet is Already Broken Photo by irina slutsky | CC BY 2.0 Near the end of 2014 Kim Kardashian set out to “break the internet.” She posed naked for pictures. This went great, getting 1% of entire internet activity on the day she did it. Now the worry is that such expressions of democracy […]
CNN & MSNBC Attempt Coverup of Bogus Story They Started
CNN & MSNBC Attempt Coverup of Bogus Story They Started CNN & MSNBC refuse to provide any transparency on how they blew a major anti-trump story. The headline image is from the BBC story Russia-Trump: Who’s who in the drama to end all dramas? The BBC names the key players, but it missed one: the […]
The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened
The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened FRIDAY WAS ONE of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. The humiliation orgy was kicked off by CNN, with MSNBC and CBS close behind, with countless pundits, commentators and operatives joining the party throughout […]
Google ‘Ministry of Truth’ intensifies suppressing ‘fake news’ (such as this)
Google ‘Ministry of Truth’ intensifies suppressing ‘fake news’ (such as this) On November 18th, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about how Google will help to defeat Russia. He said that Google helps in this effort not by “censoring” Russian newsmedia, but by “de-ranking” them in Google web-searches, so that web-pages from these sites, which he […]
Blowback: CNN Pushes Effort to “Ban the Term ‘Fake News'”
BLOWBACK: CNN PUSHES EFFORT TO “BAN THE TERM ‘FAKE NEWS’” Slogan has become synonymous with CNN itself thanks to Donald Trump CNN is now pushing an effort to “ban the term fake news” after the slogan became synonymous with CNN itself thanks to President Donald Trump. In a CNN opinion piece written by Hossein Derakhshan […]
Newsweek Embarrassment: “What Russia Did to Control the American Mind”
Newsweek Embarrassment: “What Russia Did to Control the American Mind” In yet another mindless fake news story about fake news, NewsWeek explains how “Russia Controls the American Mind” NewsWeek embarrassed itself with this shoddy headline story WHY CLINTON LOST: WHAT RUSSIA DID TO CONTROL THE AMERICAN MIND AND PUT TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE. The […]
The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized
The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized In other words, we’ll be left with officially generated and sanctioned fake news and “approved” dissent. We’ve all heard that the problem with the web is fake news, i.e. unsubstantiated or erroneous content that’s designed to mislead or sow confusion. The problem isn’t just fake news–it’s the homogenization […]
