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06/28/2017 / By News Editors

Excerpt – Sharyl Attkisson’s ‘The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote’

The following is an excerpt from former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s recently released book, The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote: THE BIRTH OF FAKE NEWS: THE CLINTONS AND THE NEW YORK TIMES If you ask people to identify a coming of age […]

03/15/2017 / By News Editors

Epic fail: Rachel Maddow mocked after dragging out Trump tax ‘scoop’

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was widely mocked on social media Tuesday night after drawing out the revelations in what she announced was an “exclusive story” regarding Donald Trump’s tax returns. ( Article by Ben Kew from Breitbart.com ) Instead of getting right to her big scoop about a 2005 Trump tax return she obtained, Maddow opened […]

03/03/2017 / By News Editors

Washington Post likens Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler

The Washington Post published an article Thursday by foreign affairs reporter Amanda Erickson likening President Donald Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler because Hitler “also published a list of crimes committed by groups he didn’t like.” Article by Joel B. Pollak from breitbart.com Erickson’s focus is Trump’s creation of a new office, “Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement” (VOICE), […]

02/22/2017 / By News Editors

Julian Assange: ‘When you read a newspaper article, you are reading weaponized text’

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange recently discussed the topic of “fake news” and how WikiLeaks’ pure data-driven approach has prevented them from becoming “weaponized text.” (Article by Lucas Nolan from Breitbart.com) CNET reports that Assange appeared via video-link in a discussion with Australian comedian Chas Licciardello in Sydney, Australia this week. During the interview, Assange discussed the idea […]

02/07/2017 / By News Editors

The Atlantic called out by the U.S. Secret Service for publishing totally fabricated fake news

The U.S. Secret Service lashed out at The Atlantic’s Washington editor at large for a series of Tweets officials said were completely false. Steve Clemons, Washington editor at large for The Atlantic, began a series of Tweets on Thursday claiming that Secret Service manager-level personnel were forced to resign and were escorted out of the […]

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