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Jewish Chronicle scandal: Why was there no uproar over its long record of pro-Israel fake news?
Britain’s best-known Jewish newspaper has found itself thrust into the centre of an embarrassing and long-overdue storm over its involvement with the shadowy manoeuvrings of the pro-Israel lobby. Continue reading
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Dutch Courage: Sonja van den Ende, Russell Brand & NATO’s Disinformation Wars
Neither SCF columnist Sonja van den Ende nor awakening wonder Russell Brand are members of MI6’s Trusted News Initiative, which MI6’s BBC informs us was set up by British Intelligence to fight their self declared fake news they say the likes of van den Ende and Brand personify worldwide. As “The Trusted News Initiative is… Continue reading
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Western Media Run Blatant Atrocity Propaganda For The Ukrainian Government
The Ukrainian government is quickly learning that it can say anything, literally anything at all, about what’s happening on the ground there and get it uncritically reported as an actual news story by the mainstream western press. Continue reading
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Western Media Engages in a War on Truth
YELLOW JOURNALISM OF THE HEARST ERA IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE 21ST CENTURY There is a wise old maxim that says, “The first step on the road to wisdom is to call things by their right names.” So, let’s do that. Continue reading
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Don’t Fall For Fake News: The Russian Deep State Is United Like Never Before
Russia just flipped the strategic tables on the West, which is why its opponents are ramping up their fake news. They can’t allow the public to acknowledge the fact that the same special operation that they provoked Russia into initiating unleashed multiple unintended consequences that have accelerated the decline of the US’ unipolar hegemony. The… Continue reading
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The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized “Fact-Checking”
The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker’s British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact Continue reading
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The Folly of Pandemic Censorship
Earlier this week, in the latest in a series of scolding campaigns, a Britain-based group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate gave a sneak peek at a research report on Substack to The Guardian and The Washington Post. Both outlets came out with their scare pieces this morning. From The Guardian: Continue reading
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CONFIRMED: Reuters Caught Posting Fake Pictures of US-backed Thai Protesters
November 16, 2021 (The New Atlas) – Reuters has been caught publishing photos depicting Thai protests that are confirmed to have been staged. Continue reading
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60 Hours After Publishing A Fake News Report On Afghanistan The New York Times Still Spreads The Story
On Tuesday I provided that the New York Times and CNN were spreading fake news about Taliban policy in Afghanistan by quoting a hoax tweet from an imposter’s Twitter account. Forty-eight hours later both stories are still uncorrected despite the fact that many have have pointed out the ‘error’ in them. Continue reading
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With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board
The Washington Post’s glaring conflicts of interest have of late once again been the subject of scrutiny online, thanks to a new article denouncing a supposed attempt to “soak” billionaires in taxes. Written by star columnist Megan McArdle — who previously argued that Walmart’s wages are too high, that there is nothing wrong with Google’s… Continue reading
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In ‘Russian Bounty’ Story, Evidence-Free Claims From Nameless Spies Became Fact Overnight
Based upon a bombshell New York Times report (6/26/20), virtually the entire media landscape has been engulfed in the allegations that Russia is paying Taliban fighters bounties to kill US soldiers. Continue reading
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LEE CAMP: Connecting the Dates – US Media Used To Stop The ‘Threat’ of Peace
No, this is a column about context. When The New York Times reports anonymous sources from the intelligence community say Russia paid Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers, context is very important. Some of that context is that Mike Pompeo said, “I was the CIA director – We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had… Continue reading
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The EU, NATO, NewsGuard and the Voltaire Network
The propaganda device aimed at stifling dissenting voices has taken a step forward. It is no longer simply a matter of accusing them of committing factual errors or deliberately lying, but of presenting them as traitors in the pay of a foreign power. Continue reading
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The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here
We’ve become incapable of talking calmly about possible solutions because we’ve lost the ability to decouple scientific or policy discussions, or simple issues of fact, from a political argument. Reporting on the Covid-19 crisis has become the latest in a line of moral manias with Donald Trump in the middle. Continue reading
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Seeing Through the Lies – US Edition
The Guardian newspaper has taken the art of obfuscation, false implication and the subtler forms of journalistic lying to new heights in its very extensive coverage of the Roger Stone sentencing saga. It has now devoted fourteen articles in the last fortnight to this rather obscure episode of American political history. Yet in not one of those articles – nor in more… Continue reading
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Iraq: Associated Press Sees “Hundreds” Where Pictures Show Millions
At 10:01 UTC today the Associated Press tweeted that “hundreds” gather in central Baghdad to demand that American troops leave the country. Thirty eight minutes earlier CNN had already reported that “hundreds of thousands” are protesting in Baghdad against the U.S. troop presence in Iraq. Continue reading
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The Pentagon Adds Its Madness to “Fake News” Hysteria
23 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The evil geniuses at DARPA claim to be building a defense against fake news – a sure sign that the Pentagon is actually creating fake news. Continue reading
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White Helmets, Black Lies By David Macilwain
This is the story of my challenge to Australia’s SBS TV over their role in passing on criminal disinformation about Syria, chemical weapons and the White Helmets. Continue reading
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How The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville Created Fairytales Of Underground Hospitals In Syria
In August 2013 the BBC produced a fake video headlined “Saving Syria’s Children” about an alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria which it claimed was caused by the Syrian government. Robert Stuart has since pressed the BBC to admit the obvious fabrication of these scenes. Continue reading
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