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03/16/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Washington Post distressed that defunding Planned Parenthood would cause more babies to live

Washington Post reporter Sandhya Somashekhar believes the biggest problem with the possible defunding of Planned Parenthood is the thousands of additional pregnancies that will be allowed to continue. The newly released American Health Care Act includes a provision in the bill that would prohibit states from directly spending federal funds on entities that provide abortions. […]

03/14/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Harvard joins “fake news” fight by circulating list of web sites students should avoid

Harvard University’s library website published new research guidelines for students that label sites like The Daily Caller and the Drudge Report as being potentially unreliable. The guide is called “Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda” and it identifies numerous respectable conservative websites as fake while labeling most of the liberal sites, that have been disproven, as […]

03/12/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Facebook’s “fake news” crackdown is a deliberate attempt to destroy the independent media

In an attempt to fulfill their promise made back in December to crack down on so-called “fake news,” Facebook has begun to mark content they deem unsubstantiated as “disputed.” Tech new website Recode reports that these stories will now contain a message saying that the selected article has been disputed by its fact checkers, and […]

03/10/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Wikipedia has become a dangerous platform for medical disinformation and propaganda

While Wikipedia may seem like a useful site if you need quick information at hand for trivial topics like the average population of Kazakhstan, its reliability and validity have long been questioned by professors, intellectuals and even the media. One reason for this distrust is the fact that quite a bit of the information on […]

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