Propaganda

Tech industry “regulation is overdue,” writes Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister turned Facebook vice president of global policy. In an op-ed for CNBC today, Clegg declared that “for too long, many of these important issues”—privacy, competition, data rights—“have been left to private companies to deal with alone.”…

Published: 6:24pm, 23 May, 2021 Updated: 4:22pm, 24 May, 2021 Read More

In March, Twitter put its foot down: users who repeatedly spread false information about COVID-19 vaccines will have their accounts suspended or shut down. It was a new front in a high-stakes battle over misinformation that could help to determine how many people get vaccinated, and how swiftly the pandemic…

U.S. Republican Representative Chris Smith, the co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, in a Congressional hearing on April 15 described the South Korean government’s ban on sending propaganda leaflets -- or "bible and BTS balloons" -- as a "retreat… from its longstanding commitment to human rights,"…

Andanar denies Duterte is losing military’s support Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said there was no truth behind the rumors that the military is withdrawing its support for President Duterte over the issue of alleged Chinese incursions into the West Philippine Sea. Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar (PCOO / FILE PHOTO)…

CNN has breathlessly covered purported allegations of sexual misconduct against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and the FBI investigation into said purported allegations, and now, thanks to Project Veritas, we know that a great deal of that coverage is driven by a desire to destroy Gaetz. CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester…

Kindergarteners in Hong Kong are being handed stickers and bookmarks ahead of the city’s first National Security Education Day since the controversial law was passed, a move that has lent to comparisons with mainland-style brainwashing targeting young children. An education union said the accessories have been sent to schools for…

EASTER is a season of peace. But what peace can there be when evil struts the land in the garb of bandits and terrorists maiming and killing? What peace can be proclaimed over a land in which even state governors with full security complement are being attacked? It was, therefore,…

On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a month out, but the agency’s international brain trust knew enough to be worried. Burdened by a sense of borrowed time,…

'It's not news anymore, it's propaganda ... We are drowning in lies.' (Image: AAP/Dean Lewins) Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused the Murdoch media empire of assisting terrorists, pushing propaganda and acting as Australia’s most powerful political party through selective coverage. Speaking at the Senate inquiry into media diversity…