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By Kashmir Hill The story in the New York Times this week was unsettling: The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting rid...

1 August 2017 Over the past week, the World Socialist Web Site has revealed that changes to Google's search algorithm aimed at censoring “fake news”...

Par Andre Damon 1 août 2017 Entre avril et juin, Google a complété une révision majeure de son moteur de recherche qui réduit fortement l’accès...

By Mustafa Habib www.niqash.org When the battle for Mosul started in October last year, the Iraqi military prepared a media plan. Official statements could only come...

The following is from an interview transcript of Paul Craig Roberts: The methods for censoring independent media all come from the CIA; they all come...

By Tyler Durden It seems that all ideas suspected of being "populist" -- or simply those ideas without the blessing of the elites --...

In the aftermath of the November 8 US presidential election, sections of the Democratic Party, the intelligence services and the media have intensified unsubstantiated pre-election claims that the Russian government hacked into Democratic Party email servers to undermine the campaign of Hillary Clinton.

If somebody asked me, in 2016, why I still consider myself to be on the Left, then I would undoubtedly start from my thoughts about the historical shift that occurred with the atomic bombings of two Japanese cities on 6th and 9th August 1945. Yet I would be the first to admit that the question of these weapons of mass destruction (and other such weapons) transcends the traditional spectrum of political ideologies, including those of the Left and of the Right.

PropOrNot managed to connect with the Washington Post on its own. Last week, the Post published a story based in part on PropOrNot’s research. Headlined “Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread ‘Fake News’ During Election, Experts Say,” the report claimed that a number of researchers had uncovered a “sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign” that spread fake-news articles across the Internet with the aim of hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump. It prominently cited the PropOrNot research. The story topped the Post’s most-read list, and was shared widely by prominent journalists and politicians on Twitter. The former White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer tweeted, “Why isn’t this the biggest story in the world right now?”

The push to delegitimize the election results continued after a trio of top Senate Democrats called for a nonpartisan commission to investigate allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Sens. Ben Cardin (Md.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) and Patrick Leahy (Vt.), the top Democrats on the Foreign Relations, Intelligence and Judiciary committees, back the creation an independent commission with 18 months to report its findings The Hill reports.