This October, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users, including many alternative media outlets maintained by American users. Among those wiped out in the coordinated purge were popular sites that scrutinized police brutality and U.S. interventionism, like The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop Block, along with the pages of journalists like […]
Misguided Support for PropOrNot Seems to Include Koch Brothers, CIA, Parts of Congress…
The CIA. The Koch Brothers and parts of Congress seem to support PropOrNot’s extensive list of 200-plus alternative-news websites that supposedly have disseminated Russian propaganda. According to this article, above, anti-alternative news fervor in Congress could serve to bind together the parties in a common cause…
Hints of Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying Rise from Blacklist Case…
Last month, the Washington Post gave a glowing front-page boost to an anonymous online blacklist of hundreds of American websites, from marginal conspiracy sites to flagship libertarian and progressive publications…the anonymous website argued that all of them should be investigated by the federal government…for Russian propaganda…
WPost Letter Responding to Truthdig’s Demand for a Retraction…
This Week at CounterPunch: More Hollow Smears and Baseless Accusations…
U.S. Census Bureau, I.R.S. and St. Louis Federal Reserve Added to “Russian Propaganda” Black List Sites…
Who’s Behind Faux Blacklist of News Websites…Fascinating Read!…
A shadowy group called PropOrNot (shorthand for Propaganda Or Not) that has gone to a great deal of trouble to keep its funders and principals secret, is promulgating a blacklist of 200 alternative media websites that it has labeled “Russian propaganda outlets”…
The WPost Admits the McCarthyite ‘Fake News’ Article THEY Published Was, Well, Fake News…
“The Post, which did not name any of the sites, does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet, nor did the article purport to do so. Since publication of The Post’s story, PropOrNot has removed some sites from its list”…
Full WPost’s Editor’s Note…
Is the Mainstream Media so Threatened by Alternative News They’d Create Orwell’s ‘Ministry of Truth’?…
What mainstream media outlets appear to be arguing for is the creation of a “Ministry of Truth” managed by mainstream U.S. media outlets and enforced by Google, Facebook and other technology platforms. In other words, once these supposedly responsible outlets decide what the “truth” is, then questioning…