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Nov 04 2022
Perspectives Blog
How Campaigns and the Media Manipulate You on Election Day
Election Day is finally here, and a year of partisan energy is coming to a crescendo. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the flood of messaging — and tricked into thinking the stakes are higher than they might be.
Campaigns want votes. Thus, as Election Day approaches, campaign managers and field organizers have one goal: get their voters to go to the polls, and get their opponent’s
Multiple Writers - MixedJan 24 2022
News
US draws down Ukraine embassy presence as war fears mount
The State Department on Sunday ordered the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine to leave the country amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion.
The department told the dependents of staffers at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv that they must leave the country. It also said that non-essential embassy staff could leave Ukraine at government expense.
The move
Associated PressJan 18 2022
Background
The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof
The science of climate change is more solid and widely agreed upon than you might think. But the scope of the topic, as well as rampant disinformation, can make it hard to separate fact from fiction. Here, we’ve done our best to present you with not only the most accurate scientific information, but also an explanation of how we know it.
Climate change is often cast as a prediction made
New York Times (News)Oct 23 2020
Opinion
As Hunter Associate Steps Forward, NBC Still Claims Story ‘Unverified’
NBC chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson was a grade-A fake news sprayer Thursday night, just before the debate as NBC Nightly News was the only evening newscast still desperately trying to defend Joe Biden for the Hunter Biden scandal laptop scandal. She continued to push the long-debunked claim that the emails were “unverified” and just “a foreign disinformation campaign,” the same
NewsBustersJan 10 2022
Opinion
It's Dangerous to Allow Politicians and Officials to Decide What Constitutes 'Truth'
It's no secret that governments worldwide are increasingly hostile to scrutiny of their conduct. But, at a moment when too many media outlets see their role as working with the state to reinforce official narratives, one advocate of press freedom reminds us that the struggle isn't over the "disinformation" and "misinformation" called out by opportunistic politicians, it's over control of
ReasonAug 18 2021
News
Facebook Oversight Board Member Says Fact-Checking Outside Jurisdiction
A member of Facebook's independent oversight board said this week that the company's third-party fact-checking program is outside the panel's jurisdiction, which "makes a lot of people quite nervous," Politico reports.
Michael McConnell, a former federal judge who now sits on the oversight board, said during the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum on Monday that Facebook's fact-
Newsmax (News)Mar 27 2021
News
Facebook freezes Maduro's page over Covid claim
Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's page after he claimed without evidence that a herbal remedy could cure Covid-19.
He claimed in January that a thyme herb solution could cure the disease. He will be unable to post for 30 days.
The company said the leader had repeatedly violated its policies on coronavirus disinformation.
Mr Maduro is not the only
BBC NewsMar 18 2022
Opinion
Column: Years Late and Millions Short on Hunter Biden
Michael Isikoff, once the top investigative reporter for Newsweek, tweeted something unintentionally humorous about a New York Times story.
“In the category of -- didn’t see this coming,” he wrote, “The @nytimes confirms the authenticity of Hunter Biden emails derived from his laptop that had been previously dismissed as Russian disinformation.”
You don't say!
The obvious
NewsBustersDec 09 2021
Opinion
How Biden can beat the great-power authoritarians in China and Russia
President Biden’s Summit for Democracy offers free nations an opportunity to restore democratic momentum at a time when opportunistic authoritarians from Burma to Belarus are on the march. It’s time for democracies to stop playing defense and double down on their collective strengths — after all, autocrats are attacking open systems in part to stymie their own people’s natural attraction to
The HillAug 22 2018
News
Facebook says it just found 652 fake accounts out of Russia — and Iran
Facebook revealed on Tuesday that it has removed about 650 pages, groups, and accounts it determined are part of a coordinated disinformation campaign out of Russia — and Iran. Also on Tuesday, Twitter said it had suspended 284 Iran-linked accounts.
Vox