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Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs...
New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,”...
Sedition By Other Means: Corporate Executives and Lobbyists Routinely Undermine Democracy...
The corporate assault on democracy hasn't been as violent as the pro-Trump mob who stormed the Capitol. And it's entirely legal. But it's arguably...
Journalists and the Looming Superstorm of Climate Disinformation
With climate action on the table, disinformation is poised to get louder. What should journalists do about it?
By Andrew McCormick
Feb.25, 2021
Texas had only just...
Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs...
New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,”...
Facebook and Twitter in Goebbels’ role
The last hours and days both journalists and simple citizens in Greece protest accusing Facebook and Twitter of censoring their texts with which they...
Twitter’s discrediting of leaked docs that show UK’s covert activities against...
By Tom Fowdy
24 Feb, 2021
On some platforms, whistleblowing is only considered an acceptable form of journalism when it exposes enemies of the West. Twitter’s...
Facebook says it will stop people viewing or sharing news in...
Decision comes amid standoff between government and tech companies over whether they should pay for news
By Andrew Griffin
Feb. 18, 2021
Facebook will stop allowing people...
Watch Mark Zuckerberg Trash Trump, Pledge to ‘Work With’ Biden in...
by Ilya Tsukanov
Feb.1, 2021
Last month, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram banned Donald Trump from their platforms, with Google, Apple, and Amazon going on to de-platform...
Israel’s ‘fake news war room’ set up to tackle vaccine disinformation...
14 Feb, 2021
As Israel’s record-setting inoculation drive slows down, it has set up a special unit to combat ‘fake news’ about coronavirus vaccines, but...
Old hatreds fuel online misinformation about COVID-19 in South Asia
By Kamya Yadav, Isra Thange,
Julia Ilhardt, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro
November 25, 2020
photo: Credit: ChocolateLr18. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Since COVID-19 spread to South Asia,...