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MUST READ: A News Consumer’s Guide to ‘Astroturf’ Sources…

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Never before have there been so many political and corporate interests with so many tools at their disposal to manipulate our opinions. Thanks to the internet and a changing news landscape, “astroturf” tactics surround us every day. Astroturf, in this case, means “fake grassroots.” In other words, entities deploy surreptitious methods to make us believe […]

Report Shows U.S. Citizens Helped Coordinate Online Disinformation Assault from Macedonia…

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You’ll recall that even back in 2014 a lot was being made about Putin’s troll factories, or the oodles of hired underlings paid by the Russian leader to fill the internet with bile and disinformation twenty-four hours a day. Much of what we originally learned about these disinformation shops came from Russian whistleblowers like Lyudmila […]

Disinformation Wars…

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Russian disinformation has become a problem for European governments. In the last two years, Kremlin-backed campaigns have spread false stories alleging that French President Emmanuel Macron was backed by the “gay lobby,” fabricated a story of a Russian-German girl raped by Arab migrants, and spread a litany of conspiracy theories about the Catalan independence referendum, […]

The New York Times’ Hatchet Job on Devin Nunes Is Riddled with Errors…

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Jason Zengerle publicly announced his profile of Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., in today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine with the snarky tweet, “My latest for the @NYTmag on Devin Nunes, who’s been propagating, not to mention falling for, conspiracy theories since before the Deep State was even in a gleam in Donald Trump’s eye.” It’s […]

How Shoddy Reporting and Anti-Russian Propaganda Coerced Ecuador to Silence Julian Assange…

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JULIAN ASSANGE HAS been barred from communicating with the outside world for more than three weeks. On March 27, the government of Ecuador blocked Assange’s internet access and barred him from receiving visitors other than his lawyers. Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, when Ecuador granted him asylum due to […]

Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists and ‘Media Influencers’…

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The Department of Homeland Security wants to track the comings and goings of journalists, bloggers and other “media influencers” through a database. The DHS’s “Media Monitoring” plan, which was first reported by FedBizOpps.gov, would give the contracting company “24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers […]

Mark Zuckerberg Explains How Facebook Will Try to Kill Alternative Media…

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In his recent interview with the far-left online publication Vox, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new system of favoring “broadly trusted” news sources, via a mechanism designed to favor established outlets and crush new media. Facebook introduced its new system in January, and the results were immediately apparent. Facebook traffic to establishment outlets including CNN and […]

Monmouth Poll: 77 Percent Think Traditional Media Reports ‘Fake News’…

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According to a new Monmouth University poll, 77 percent of Americans believe that traditional TV and print news outlets report “fake news.” 31 percent said outlets report fake news “regularly,” while 46 percent said they do so “occasionally.” The poll also asked respondents to indicate if they think outlets report fake news in order to […]

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