Fake News
Venezuela Unveils Anti-US Coalition to Prevent Military Intervention
15.02.2019
The collective action follows weeks of pressure from the United States, backing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has declared himself the country’s interim...
Secretive crackdown on fake profiles shows Israel wide open to election...
On eve of local vote, national cyber unit, part of Netanyahu’s office, reveals it has asked Facebook to close thousands of accounts used to...
Made and Distributed in the U.S.A.: Online Disinformation
By Sheera Frenkel
Oct. 11, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — When Christine Blasey Ford testified before Congress last month about Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault,...
Facebook and Totalitarianism
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners
By Alan MacLeod
September 25, 2018
Media giant Facebook recently announced (Reuters, 9/19/18) it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda...
Les deepfakes, ces fake news vidéo dopés à l’intelligence artificielle qui...
20/02/2018
Sans doute avez-vous entendu parler des deepfakes porno, ces trucages video malveillants qui se sont déversés sur la toile ces dernières semaines. Mais en...
Internet Totalitarianism: Shaping Minds and Ideas
The end of net neutrality and the fight to defend the free internet
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to overturn rules, known...
FAKE NEWS: China Threatens to Bomb North Korea’s Nuclear Facilities
Another fake news story has been spread by mainstream media outlets, according to which China is ready to “bomb North Korea.”
A number of media...
Is Trump’s Agenda Starting to Show “Shades of Brown”? The Million...
By Peter Koenig
Original post date: 31 January 2017
Where is Mr. Trump coming from and where is he going to? What is really on his...
Red paint not blood: Photographer nabbed shooting fake images of ‘Aleppo...
It was destined to be an iconic image: a small girl holding a teddy bear in a white dress marked by blood splotches with the ruins of Aleppo behind her. But according to Egyptian authorities, it was also a set-up, shot hundreds of miles away in a different country.
USA – McCarthy still alive!
A shady website that claims “Russia is Manipulating US Opinion Through Online Propaganda” has compiled a blacklist of websites its anonymous authors accuse of pushing fake news and Russian propaganda. The blacklist includes over 200 outlets, from the right-wing Drudge Report and Russian government-funded Russia Today, to Wikileaks and an array of marginal conspiracy and far-right sites.