‘Post-truth era’: NATO strategic group finds efforts to correct ‘fake news’ can backfire

‘Post-truth era’: NATO strategic group finds efforts to correct ‘fake news’ can backfire

by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2018 Disinformation was an integral strategy deployed against the United States by the Soviet Union’s KBG and GRU intelligence agencies. In the ‘Information Age’ that followed the USSR, disinformation or “fake news” is playing a larger role than ever posing massive political, cultural and geostrategic conflicts. Better fact-checking could help […]

Truth and lies: Anti-Trump warriors having trouble keeping stories straight

Truth and lies: Anti-Trump warriors having trouble keeping stories straight

by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2018 Anti-Trump forces within the major media and the nation’s capital are scrambling to get their stories in alignment on “collusion”, reports say. On July 26, CNN broke a “blockbuster” story which claimed Michael Cohen would inform special counsel Robert Mueller that he was on hand when President Donald Trump […]

War: Trump slams Google after study finds overwhelming news search bias

War: Trump slams Google after study finds overwhelming news search bias

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2018 Google search results are “rigged” in favor of “fake news,” President Donald Trump tweeted on Aug. 28. Trump’s tweets appeared to be referencing a report by PJ Media by Paula Bolyard titled “96 Percent of Google Search Results for ‘Trump’ News Are from Liberal Media Outlets”. “Google search results for […]

Facebook/China to citizens: No worries, we’ve got your number

Facebook/China to citizens: No worries, we’ve got your number

by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2018 What works for communist China appears to be good enough for Facebook, some critics say. Earlier this year, China introduced a “social credit score” in which the communist government decides who in the country of 1.4 billion people is and isn’t trustworthy. Facebook is following Beijing’s lead with a […]

Overwhelmed by Trump’s tweet feed, 100 newspapers, join forces to fight back

Overwhelmed by Trump’s tweet feed, 100 newspapers, join forces to fight back

by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2018 The Boston Globe has spearheaded an effort in which it says more than 100 newspapers will publish an editorial as a “coordinated response” to President Donald Trump’s frequent tweets which refer to some in the major media as the “enemy of the people.” “We propose to publish an editorial […]

Trump again states his case on Russia: ‘It could be other people also’

Trump again states his case on Russia: ‘It could be other people also’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump said he accepts the “intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place.” However, he added: “It could be other people also. A lot of people out there.” U.S. President Donald Trump says he ‘gave up nothing’ to Russia at last week’s summit in […]

Russians under the bed: Greenwald details MSNBC’s uncorrected lies, smear tactics

Russians under the bed: Greenwald details MSNBC’s uncorrected lies, smear tactics

by WorldTribune Staff, July 12, 2018 On MSNBC, “lies are not corrected; they are rewarded, provided the lies are designed to smear the reputations of Democratic Party critics,” journalist Glenn Greenwald noted in a July 8 report for The Intercept. Greenwald pointed to an MSNBC “fabrication” during the 2016 presidential election which, to date, the […]

Poll: Americans of both parties agree major media reports are ‘fake, false, purposely misleading’

Poll: Americans of both parties agree major media reports are ‘fake, false, purposely misleading’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2018 A large majority of Americans say the major media are reporting news “they know to be fake, false, or purposely misleading,” a poll released on June 28 found. Seventy-two percent of Americans believe “traditional major news sources report news they know to be fake, false, or purposely misleading,” the […]

Former CBS correspondent lists 50 major ‘unforced’ media errors about the Trumps

Former CBS correspondent lists 50 major ‘unforced’ media errors about the Trumps

by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2018 Award-winning Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson noted that U.S. President Donald Trump may be the most fact-checked person on Earth – and the major media quite often gets it wrong. The former Emmy Award winning CBS correspondent said that “as self-appointed arbiters of truth, we’ve largely excused our own unprecedented […]

Sinclair Broadcasting statement on ‘fake news’ sparks coordinated media counterattack

Sinclair Broadcasting statement on ‘fake news’ sparks coordinated media counterattack

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2018 Left-wing media outlets went ballistic after a video emerged of Sinclair Broadcasting local news network anchors reading a script which mentioned “fake stories” in the mainstream media. The outrage was sparked by a 98-second video posted on Deadspin on March 31 which showed dozens of Sinclair anchors reading a […]