Updated 4/3/19 at 5:48 p.m.
Singapore may be the first nation to hold social media platforms responsible for allowing fake news to go unchecked on their platforms with a new law being proposed. The law, submitted in its parliament yesterday, …
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Facebook announced it has removed thirty-two accounts from both the Facebook and Instagram platforms that were involved in what it calls inauthentic behavior. The company did not attribute the activity to any group or country but said some of the …
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Facebook and Twitter have announced new measures aimed at combating efforts by foreign sources to interfere in U.S. elections. The moves target the kind of efforts used by Russian-linked agents in the 2016 presidential election and largely aim to increase …
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The Swedish government has issued a war pamphlet to every one of its 4.8 million households, instructing them on what to do in the event of armed conflict. The pamphlet was first created during WWII and was last issued in …
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It starts with an innocent search of the day’s headlines on YouTube. While things seem normal at first, the site eventually pulls you further and further away from mainstream content and more towards fringe content designed, above all, to …
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Sinclair Broadcasting, already faced a backlash after Deadspin.com released an edited video of anchors reading, in unison, a prepared statement about fake news, finds itself again being criticized over an aid it aired on its stations urging viewers to oppose …
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Sinclair Broadcast Group is facing heavy criticism for mandatory readings of scripts it has made news anchors at local television stations read denouncing what it calls “fake stories” published by media outlets that “just aren’t true” and that are published …
Continue ReadingThe Department of State has spent virtually none of almost a $120 million budget to combat Russian propaganda efforts over the last two fiscal years, it’s been found. Sixty million dollars were allocated by the Obama administration at the end …
Continue ReadingThe U.S. State Department has formed a new partnership with the Defense Department to counter propaganda and disinformation from foreign nations, it was announced today. The partnership will initially be funded with $40 million, transferred from the Pentagon to the …
Continue ReadingSweden is taking active measures to ready itself ahead of presidential elections this fall against possible cyber-intrusion by foreign actors, mainly Russia.
At a recent conference in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, about seventy local lawmakers and election officials heard …
Continue ReadingA man from Michigan has been arrested after calling CNN headquarters in Atlanta twenty-two times and threatening violence. Nineteen-year-old Brandon Griesemer made the calls about a week ago.
Griesemer allegedly told a CNN operator “Fake news. I’m coming to …
Continue ReadingRepublican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona took to the Senate floor to delivering a scathing critique of President Trump and the president’s attacks on the press today. Flake compared Donald Trump’s attacks to those of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, when …
Continue ReadingArizona Senator Jeff Flake said he believes it’s likely President Trump will have a primary challenger from the Republican Party in 2020. “He’ll certainly have a challenge from somebody as an independent. But I think he’ll likely have a challenge …
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