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WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived…

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In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging…

Your Weekly Alarming Anonymous Friday Night WaPo Dump: Vermont Electrical Grid Edition…

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It seems like every Friday this month, there has been an alarming Friday night news dump in the WaPo based off anonymous leaks. This time, it’s a story claiming that, Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont. The anonymous officials behind this story have just squandered the efforts of a slew […]

Did Big Media Run Fake Headlines on the Deutsche Bank “Settlement”?…

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In the case of the announcement late last Thursday evening that Deutsche Bank and the U.S. Justice Department had reached an agreement to settle claims against the bank for allegedly swindling investors in the sale of toxic residential mortgage backed securities, all that could be heard was the sound of one hand clapping in a […]

FacebookTwitterGoogle Sued by Orlando Shooting Victims Families…

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Facebook, Google and Twitter are being sued by the families of three victims slain in the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State. The lawsuit is the latest to target popular Internet services for making it too easy for the Islamic State to spread its message…

Facebook Misreported Engagement Numbers for Links and Live Videos…

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For the third time since September, Facebook is disclosing new measurement errors. The two new errors affected the reaction counts Facebook reports on Pages’ Live videos, as well as the engagement figures Facebook reports for off-Facebook links; the latter link engagement metrics were recently used in investigations by BuzzFeed and The New York Times into […]

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