algorithms that, increasingly, have come to define a person’s public-facing identities.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterThis anonymous 4Chan poster, citing Alex Jones Infowar, claims without basis, that the Las Vegas shooter was involved in …This anonymous 4Chan poster, citing Alex Jones Infowar, claims without basis, that the Las Vegas shooter was involved in a Far Left organisation. Photo: Supplied
Source: Las Vegas shooting: How 4Chan, far-right trolls named the wrong man
It’s officially on. Breitbart News, with former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon back in charge, is ripping mad at US President Donald Trump after Monday’s Afghanistan speech foreshadowed an increase in ground troops.
Source: With Bannon back in charge, Breitbart unleashes fury at Trump for Afghanistan speech
Time Magazine asks the Trump organisation to take down any framed copies of a fake cover featuring Donald Trump, which have been prominently displayed in the US President’s golf clubs.
Eric Bolling on Trump falsely claiming a robbery was a terror attack: “What was the big deal?”
Source: Eric Bolling on Trump falsely claiming a robbery was a terror attack: “What was the big deal?”
Memo to Sean Hannity: The Fox News employees pushed out of Fox News were sexually-assaulting conservatives, accused by conservatives and eventually ousted by conservative Rupert Murdoch.
Australia’s first female Muslim federal MP Anne Aly has fallen victim to fake news after an unsubstantiated story about her “refusal” to lay a wreath on Anzac Day appeared on a Facebook post.
Source: Muslim MP Anne Aly falsely accused of refusing to lay wreath on Anzac Day
Fox Business host Stuart Varney allowed a coal mining company CEO who previously said President Donald Trump couldn’t bring back coal jobs to walk back those comments, while Varney himself pushed the myth that environmental protections are to blame for the loss of jobs in the coal industry.A March 27 article in The Guardian reported that
Source: Fox Business Host Allows Industry CEO To Continue Denying The Real Reason For Coal’s Decline
The alert from Fox News went out at 5.30pm Sunday. It wasn’t long until it was proven untrue.
Source: Fox News said Donald Trump spent the weekend ‘working at the White House.’ He was at his golf club
Breitbart’s xenophobic “Sweden YES” tag is a dog whistle to the “alt-right,” and the misleading articles marked with the label serve as the foundation for the outlet’s anti-immigrant campaign in both Europe and the United States.In a March 17 interview with NBC News, Breitbart.com’ Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow at
Source: Breitbart Is Tagging Articles With A Bigoted “Alt-Right” Meme That Attacks Swedish Multiculturalism
Fox News’ Shepard Smith opened his program with a strong rebuke from Fox News on Judge Napolitano’s claims. Because nobody at Fox wants Trump calling them Fake News!
Source: Wait, Now Fox ‘Cannot Confirm’ What Napolitano Said ON AIR? | Crooks and Liars
Bill O’Reilly, one of Fox News’ main personalities, just deliberately misled millions of viewers.
Source: Bill O’Reilly just hosted a fake Swedish ‘advisor’ to scaremonger about refugees
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The interview that emerged on the internet of practicing Catholic Milo …
Source: Should Bannon Resign? He and Milo Fake-Newsed Hillary as Pedophile
Let’s hope people aren’t dumb enough to fall for it.
Source: Every Time Trump Says ‘FAKE NEWS!’ — This Is What It Means – US Uncut
Trump is using the same framework for understanding terrorism to justify his Muslim ban and immigration policy that Netanyahu and Israel have exploited to justify half a century of occupation. By Naomi Dann Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit with President Trump at the White House this week. It will be a true meeting of minds. Both leaders are bombastic and rely on false claims, fear-mongering, and stereotypes to pursue discriminatory, racist, and violent policies. [tmwinpost] The parallels would be comical if they weren’t so harmful. Just last week, Trump asserted, based on no evidence, that people were bussed…
Source: Trump and Netanyahu: A shared art of exploiting terrorism | +972 Magazine
After getting thoroughly debunked, Fox News has finally taken back a fake news report claiming widespread fraud among food stamp users.
Source: Fox News just admitted its segment on food stamp fraud was fake news
Conservative media and President Donald Trump have repeatedly misappropriated the term “fake news” to attack journalists and news organizations that publish stories Trump views to be unfavorable to him and his administration. Despite the accusations leveled against these news outlets, they are not putting out “fake news,” which inv
Source: Taking A Cue From Conservative Media, Trump Consistently Misuses The Term “Fake News”
The White House sends journalists a list of terror attacks it believes did not receive adequate attention from Western media — including five incidents in Australia, one of which was determined to be a murder case. That list is an obvious case of fake news being used to boost what’s a case of “confirmation bias”. Searching for information to prove a conclusion you want drawn is trying to squeeze marshmallows into a money box. It’s purely the Art of the Deal.
Current False Accusations Of Paid Protesters Don’t Match Up With Tea Party Adoration
Obvious BS should set off our internal scam detectors, but it turns out the human brain has a workaround for that
Armed with its own set of facts, the right has created a parallel media universe that’s risen all the way with Trump to the White House.
Source: The Right Is Building A New Media “Upside Down” To Tell Trump’s Story – BuzzFeed News
Alan Austin has a few tactics to help us win the oncoming war against #fakenews and #posttruth.
Source: Battlelines are now drawn in the war against transparency and truth
The verified Facebook page for American News (also known as The Patriot Review), with its more than 4.7 million followers, is perhaps the largest page regularly pushing fake news on the social media platform and is emblematic of the problem Facebook must address immediately. It shares dozens of posts each day, often topped with false, clickbait
Source: Meet The Mysterious, Facebook-Verified Page Pushing Fake News To Nearly 5 Million Followers
Despite left-wing “fake news,” there is no evidence from the CIA investigation that Russian hackers actually distorted the voting process.
Source: 10 Ways the CIA ‘Russian Hacking’ Story is Left-Wing ‘Fake News’
A Jewish family had to flee a Pennsylvania county after Fox News and Breitbart reported untrue stories that they had shut down a school Christmas play. Centerville Elementary School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania canceled their annual production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol this year primarily because the production requires 20 hours of classroom time to […]
Source: Jewish Family Flees County After Fox News Falsely Blames Them For Canceling Christmas Play
Earlier this morning I heard a rather strange interview with ACL head, Lyle Shelton, where he was suggesting that the police announcement that the explosion outside the Australian Christian Lobby office wasn’t motivated by politics or religion was “just a belief”. There was no way the police could know what motivated the perpetrator because they’d…
For decades, the media have been dominated by manufactured reports. This skillful manipulation of information erased the lines between fact and opinion and gave rise to the demagogue who will sit in the Oval Office.
Source: Chris Hedges: ‘Fake News’ in America: Homegrown, and Far From New – Chris Hedges – Truthdig
Saturday 17 December 2016 1 Tony Abbott must be having the greatest dummy spit of all time. Now he is on about employment, or should I say the illusion that there are so many jobs that people are choosing to just not work. The last time I looked it up there were 19 applicants for…
Source: Day to Day Politics: Who gives a shit? Not Tony. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
By S. Shyam Sundar | (The Conversation) | – – In recent weeks, the amount of online fake news that …
Some right-wing media figures and outlets are attempting to twist and confuse the term “fake news” — a specific phenomenon in which information is clearly and demonstrably fabricated, then packaged and distributed to appear as a legitimate source of news — to attack outlets they disagree with. By redefining fake news in their own terms an
Source: Right-Wing Media Are Using The Term “Fake News” To Attack Credible News Sources
It is propaganda from sources outside and inside America, why do we call it fake news?
