Tag Archives: disinformation

Deep state plot outed.Consortium News The Scary Void Inside Russia-gate Stephen F. Cohen The Foundering Russia-gate ‘Scandal’ Robert Parry Protecting the Shaky Russia-gate Narrative Robert Parry Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections Robert Parry Sucking Liberals into a New Cold War William Blum Russia-gate’s Reach into Journalism Dennis J. Bernstein Sic Semper TyrannisFake News, Sedition and Public Apathy Your Trump Dossier Cheat Sheet Publius TacitusIrrussianalityThe latest...

It has been amusing to watch the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets express their dismay over the rise and spread of “fake news.” These publications take it as an obvious truth that what they provide is straightforward, unbiased, fact-based reporting. They do offer such news, but they also provide a steady flow of their own varied forms of fake news, often by disseminating false or misleading information supplied to them by the national security state, other branches of...

See that full stop at the end of the last sentence there [in The Atlantic quote of Wikileaks]? That’s journalistic malpractice. Selective editing in one way spin and disinformation get created. Another is selective reporting that omits relevant facts. This is how propaganda works to create faked news. The author of the Atlantic article, Julia Ioffe, put a period rather than a comma at the end of the text about not wanting to appear pro-Trump or pro-Russia, and completely omitted WikiLeaks’...

Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is aided more than stifled by technology. It's folly to think that the Internet is responsible for fake news as a new phenomenon as a social influence. It's been around for a long time in various forms. The Platonic dialogue, The...

Putting Assad's alleged Aleppo massacre aided by Russia to bed. It was disinformation.Sic Semper Tyrannis Large numbers of Syrians are returning homeCol. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.), former military intelligence officer at the US Defense Intelligence Agency