Report estimates $4.7 billion is only a fraction of earnings Google takes from publishers

Report estimates $4.7 billion is only a fraction of earnings Google takes from publishers

FPI / June 12, 2019 Google in 2018 alone received $4.7 billion in revenue “from crawling and scraping news publishers’ content – without paying the publishers for that use,” a new study shows. “News is a key source on which Google has increasingly relied to drive consumer engagement with its products,” the nonprofit News Media […]

Facebook warns WorldTribune on AOC article

Facebook warns WorldTribune on AOC article

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2019 A WorldTribune.com article on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s exchange with an FBI official on domestic terrorism resulted in a warning from Facebook. In the article, Ocasio-Cortez is cited as using the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting and the 2015 murders of nine African Americans at a South Carolina church […]

‘Fake news’ a national security threat, poll finds; Few losing sleep over climate change

‘Fake news’ a national security threat, poll finds; Few losing sleep over climate change

by WorldTribune Staff, June 6, 2019 Misinformation and disinformation in the form of “fake news” is a threat to U.S. national security, according to a Pew Research Center survey. A large majority of Americans (68 percent) believe fake news and information has a big impact on their trust in government, according to the survey. In […]

War talk at the beach is a secondary concern in Trump-obsessed D.C.

War talk at the beach is a secondary concern in Trump-obsessed D.C.

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk VIRGINIA BEACH ― Memorial Day holiday crowds soak up the surf and sun while sailors and marines train for war in distant countries about which they know very little. A young Marine, bored with the routine at one of the dozen or so facilities between this sprawling oceanside community […]

NPR: New book by ‘fringe’ Mark Levin lampoons media as ‘strident, pretentious, arrogant’

NPR: New book by ‘fringe’ Mark Levin lampoons media as ‘strident, pretentious, arrogant’

by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2019 Mark Levin’s “Unfreedom of the Press” is a book full of “bombast and bile” from a “right wing radio host” long considered “fringe,” according to a media review of the Amazon best seller. The ad hominem-loaded attack was launched by none other than Annalisa Quinn for taxpayer-subsidized NPR. In […]

Speak no evil: Propaganda may be China’s most successful strategy

Speak no evil: Propaganda may be China’s most successful strategy

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct Communist China is currently holding more than one million ethnic Uighur Muslims in prison camps. Supreme leader Xi Jinping is committed to rampant espionage against American citizens and companies and the kidnapping of critics from foreign countries. Mao Zedong caused the deaths of 50 million of his fellow Chinese. Despite […]

Social media cults seen creating fake news ‘realities’

Social media cults seen creating fake news ‘realities’

by WorldTribune Staff, May 20, 2019 With billions of people online worldwide, it is easy to attract an audience in the millions “for almost anything,” a columnist noted. “While the Internet has the power to bring people together, it also has the power to divide us up into tribes and subcultures,” Robert Stacy McCain wrote […]

‘Unfreedom of the Press’: Levin bestseller hits No. 1 before publication

‘Unfreedom of the Press’: Levin bestseller hits No. 1 before publication

by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2019 “The party-press is back, and with a vengeance,” radio and TV host Mark Levin writes in his new book, “Unfreedom of the Press”. “News outlets are overwhelmingly supportive of the Democratic Party and hostile to the Republican Party — particularly conservatives — and, these days, virulently antagonistic to President […]

Fleitz: Left out to destroy John Bolton with anonymous sources

Fleitz: Left out to destroy John Bolton with anonymous sources

by WorldTribune Staff, May 17, 2019 The media, via anonymous sources, is pushing a “false narrative” aimed at destroying national security adviser John Bolton, according to Bolton’s former chief of staff. “The Left is going after Ambassador John Bolton right now by pushing the false narrative that he is trying to push President Trump into […]

U.S. media chief praises ‘press freedom’ after firing journalists over Soros report

U.S. media chief praises ‘press freedom’ after firing journalists over Soros report

Special to WorldTribune May 8, 2019 Analysis by Judicial Watch It’s ironic that, just weeks after firing journalists behind a broadcast critical of leftwing billionaire George Soros, the head of the U.S. government’s international media networks is proclaiming his support for “press freedom.” U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Chief John F. Lansing, an Obama […]

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