(2018-08-30). Hogan Adopts Trump's 'Fake News' Attack on Media. therealnews.com Critics say the popular governor can't call himself a moderate if he supports policies backed by the Koch Brothers and Donald Trump
(2018-08-29). Leak From Censored Israel Lobby Film Exposes Anti-Palestinian Operatives. therealnews.com The first leaked excerpt of Al Jazeera's censored film on the Israel Lobby in the U.S. claims to identify the funder behind the Canary Mission, an anonymous website devoted to smearing and silencing vocal supporters of Palestinian rights. We play a clip from the film and speak to Asa Winstanley of the Electronic Intifada, which…
(2018-08-29). Leak From Censored Israel Lobby Film Exposes Anti-Palestinian Operatives. imemc.org The first leaked excerpt of Al Jazeera's censored film on the Israel Lobby in the U.S. claims to identify the funder behind the Canary Mission, an anonymous website devoted to smearing and silencing vocal supporters of Palestinian rights.
(2018-08-29). Leaked Scenes from Censored Documentary Reveal Israel Lobbyist Noah Pollak Astroturfing an Anti-Palestinian Protest. grayzoneproject.com Exclusive leaked scenes from Al Jazeera's "The Lobby — USA" documentary show how Emergency Committee for Israel Executive Director Noah…
(2018-08-29). Selected Articles: Russian "Interference", U.S. Sanctions, The US Dollar and the Gold Market. globalresearch.ca For almost seventeen years (Since September 9, 2001) Global Research, together with partner independent media organizations, has sought Truth in Media with a view to eventually "disarming" the corporate media's disinformation …
(2018-08-29). WaPo column praises McCain as human rights champion with photo of him next to 'literal neo-Nazi'. rt.com Mainstream US media have been singing eulogies to the late Senator John McCain after he succumbed to brain cancer last weekend. Among them is a column in the Washington Post titled 'The human rights community lost a champion.'
(2018-08-29). Manufacturing dissent: Leaked footage reveals US Israel lobby astroturfing student event (VIDEO). rt.com A fake pro-Israel protest manufactured by US-based lobbying groups has been exposed in an exclusive clip from a censored Al Jazeera documentary on Israel's influence in the US.
(2018-08-29). What is FireEye? wsws.org The cyber-security firm FireEye has high-level connections with military intelligence and Wall Street and is working with social media companies to promote censorship.
(2018-08-29). Honest mistakes or fake news? CNN's top Trump-related reporting gaffes. rt.com US President Donald Trump and CNN have been at loggerheads for years, with the president branding CNN part of the "fake news" media and even calling the network the "enemy of the people" on Twitter.
(2018-08-29). CNN's own source says Michael Cohen story is fake news, but network stands by it. rt.com A bombshell story that was supposed to be the end of President Donald Trump — until the celebrity source recanted. It sounds like a typical media screw-up, with one key difference: for whatever reason, CNN is standing by it.
(2018-08-28). Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left. fair.org US News ( 8/8/18): "A band of far-left candidates have suffered a string of defeats in Democratic primaries this year." | The insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party, sometimes self-identified as democratic socialists and exemplified by rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and associated with groups like Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution, the Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), took some losses in primaries on August 7. These included high-profile candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for Michigan governor and Brent Welder in Kansas's 2nd district, along with losses by Cori Bush in Missouri's 1st district. Following the losses, corporate media outlets were quick to declare the Democratic left wing dead in the water: | "Bernie and His Army Are Losing 2018" (Politico, 8/8/18) | "Down Goes Socialism" (Politico, 8/8/18) | "Democratic Party's Liberal Insurgency Hits…
(2018-08-28). Facebook & Google Play the Censor: Are our Civil Liberties Endangered? therealnews.com Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi joins us to examine the dangerous juncture our freedom finds itself in when Facebook, Twitter, and Google work with the government and its intelligence services to control what we see and hear
(2018-08-28). Trump calls out Google for 'rigged' search results, 'illegal' censorship, vows to take action. rt.com President Donald Trump has accused search giant Google of deliberately highlighting negative news about his administration, and "controlling what we can and cannot see." Trump vowed that the situation "will be addressed." |
(2018-08-28). World's Leading Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan. theintercept.com A blistering letter from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch calls a forthcoming search engine with blacklists "an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights."
(2018-08-24). Weekend Read: From cable to the White House, the mainstreaming of white nationalism. splcenter.org It doesn't take the infiltration of a hate group meeting or a deep dive into extremist chat rooms to be exposed to white nationalist ideas.
(2018-08-24). Big Tech Corporations Are Now Banning Iranian Social Media Accounts — A Censored Student Journalist Speaks out. grayzoneproject.com Google, Facebook, and Twitter are removing social media accounts of real life Iranians who are falsely dubbed as "government trolls."…
(2018-08-24). 'It looks like spam': Facebook hit with more claims that it unfairly censors conservatives. rt.com As Facebook continues to be hit with claims of censorship from Donald Trump and other conservative voices, two more alleged cases have been added to the pile, with the social network claiming the posts "look like spam."
(2018-08-24). 'Information ops': Secret meeting of social media & tech giants to tackle midterm elections. rt.com Representatives from America's tech giants are meeting in private to discuss strategies for countering "information operations" ahead of the midterm elections. The meeting comes amid growing concern over social media censorship.
(2018-08-24). Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify before House committee over 'shadow banning' & bias claims. rt.com Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Sept. 5 to testify about the company's algorithms that have repeatedly raised suspicions of judgment bias and stealth censorship.
(2018-08-24). Trump accuses social media giants of censorship, says 'millions' being silenced. rt.com US President Donald Trump has lashed out at tech companies for deplatforming "millions" of users, arguing that people must be allowed to decide for themselves what is true. |
(2018-08-22). That Facebook Will Turn to Censoring the Left Isn't a Worry—It's a Reality. fair.org On August 6, a number of giant online media companies, including Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Spotify and Pinterest, took the seemingly coordinated decision to remove all content from Alex Jones and his media outlet Infowars from their platforms. | Jones, perhaps the internet's most notorious far-right conspiracy theorist, has claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, the Democratic Party is running a child sex ring inside a DC pizzeria and that the Las Vegas shooting was perpetrated by Antifa. Despite or perhaps because of such claims, his website Infowars has built up an enormous following: 3 million Americans, almost 1 percent of the population, visited the site in July 2018, according to Alexa. Alex Jones: First they came for the conspiracy theorists…. | The reaction from the media to the decision to ban Jones and Infowars was largely celebratory. On…