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. This is Facebook’s first ever “war room,” designed to bring leaders […]
The Pipe-Bombs Story: Another Example of Why No One Trusts the Media…
Facebook’s New Troll-Crushing “War Room” Confirms Surveillance by Corporation Is the New America…
MUST READ: A News Consumer’s Guide to ‘Astroturf’ Sources…
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…
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 […]
Ben Rhodes: The Government Can’t Control People’s Facebook Feeds and That Worries Me…
Appearing on on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell to discuss his book on Wednesday, former top Obama aide Ben Rhodes lamented the problem of fake news and its impact on elections. And worried about the lack of government control. Rhodes was referring back to the election, bring up hacking and leaking of emails, but said that […]
Disinformation Wars…
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…
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…
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’…
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 […]
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