Big brother frustrated: Facebook fails to stop fake news, but will try harder to steer us straight

Big brother frustrated: Facebook fails to stop fake news, but will try harder to steer us straight

by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2017 After its efforts to identify fake news totally backfired, Facebook said it has come up with a better way to ensure its users get what it decides are the actual facts. The social media giant announced it will remove the “disputed” tag it had implemented to alert readers of […]

‘Wrecking ball’ for God: Author says Christian conservatives turned the tide for Trump

‘Wrecking ball’ for God: Author says Christian conservatives turned the tide for Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, December 25, 2017 Christian conservatives overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, turning the tide in key swing states and delivering Trump to the White House, according to the author of the new book “The Day Christians Changed America”. “When all the hyperbole is stripped away, and the countless actors who […]

NY Times columnist who feared geopolitical ‘risks’ under Trump credits foreign policy success

NY Times columnist who feared geopolitical ‘risks’ under Trump credits foreign policy success

by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2017 A year after warning of the geopolitical “perils” of a Trump presidency, a New York Times columnist now admits the Trump era has gotten off to a mostly successful start in the foreign policy arena. In a column titled “The War Trump Won”, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, […]

Sex wars: A female journalist in NC calls for honesty about women, not just men

Sex wars: A female journalist in NC calls for honesty about women, not just men

by WorldTribune Staff, December 13, 2017 Sen. Al Franken, Alabama’s Roy Moore, President Donald Trump are just at the top of a growing list of the male politicians taking heat for alleged sins against women. The sex revolution of the last century has delivered massive blowback in the form of daily and sensational outrages that […]

Heartbreak at the Huffington Post: ‘Sadly, Trump is winning’

Heartbreak at the Huffington Post: ‘Sadly, Trump is winning’

by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2017 Much to the chagrin of his many detractors in the mainstream media, President Donald Trump has pulled off a string of major victories in his first year at the White House, an analyst wrote for Huffington Post. “This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write […]

DNC ‘dossier’ firm tried to link Trump to Clinton friend, a convicted pedophile

DNC ‘dossier’ firm tried to link Trump to Clinton friend, a convicted pedophile

by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2017 The firm that contracted out the discredited, Democrat Party-funded Trump dossier also shopped a story that attempted to link then-candidate Donald Trump to a pedophile with close ties to former President Bill Clinton, a report said. Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson “pushed the idea of a close relationship” between […]

Former Facebook VP haunted by guilt; His children ‘aren’t allowed to use that s—t’

Former Facebook VP haunted by guilt; His children ‘aren’t allowed to use that s—t’

by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2017 A former vice president at Facebook said he feels “tremendous guilt” about helping to create the Internet behemoth and recommends people take a “hard break” from social media. Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, told an audience at Stanford Graduate […]

The anti-Trump beat: Big media outlets downplay rash of factual errors

The anti-Trump beat: Big media outlets downplay rash of factual errors

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 10, 2017 The same major media outlets that bristle whenever President Donald Trump tweets “Fake News!” continue to provide the president with ammunition. A rash of factual errors in the past week alone raises questions about once rigorous standards of objectivity and professionalism in today’s news industry. On Dec. 8, […]

Blackwater founder charges Washington Post and U.S. intelligence colluded to violate his rights

Blackwater founder charges Washington Post and U.S. intelligence colluded to violate his rights

by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2017 The founder of the Blackwater private security firm told Congress in testimony last week that he was the subject of illegal surveillance by Obama administration operatives as confirmed by an article in The Washington Post. The combination, he charged, amounted to a hit job and “political abuse of the […]

Matt Lauer: What did NBC know and when did NBC know it?

Matt Lauer: What did NBC know and when did NBC know it?

by WorldTribune Staff, December 7, 2017 Despite the denials of current and former NBC executives, Matt Lauer’s long history of sexual misconduct was well known to the “boys club” at the network which brushed Lauer’s behavior “under the carpet,” reports say. “Everybody at NBC knew about Matt Lauer’s sexually inappropriate behavior – and knew not […]