The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which is helping Facebook determine whether certain news stories are “disputed,” recently partnered with the State Department to host a training workshop for reporters.
A viral video of a man escorted from a Delta Airlines flight supposedly for speaking in Arabic is the work of Adam Saleh, a popular YouTube prankster with a history of admittedly fake videos and intentionally provocative antics on airplanes.
Rachel Bade reports in Politico that Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill “are loath to say anything remotely critical” of President-elect Donald Trump or his agenda for fear of the coverage such actions will receive from Breitbart News.
What broke it? Both parties acquiesced in bank liberalization, in open-borders immigration, and in Wall Street bailouts. But the most acute challenge was Barack Obama’s direct attack on the constitutional framework itself. Obama sought to transform America, and believed that the ends would justify the means.
The media has generated another “fake news” controversy by branding Trump supporting Susan Olsen–who played youngest daughter Cindy Brady on the iconic sitcom The Brady Bunch–as a “homophobe” after the actress called out a gay leftist activist for cowardice and duplicity in politically incorrect terms.
Media Research Center president and conservative activist Brent Bozell says Mark Zuckerberg has assured him that Facebook will not be politically targeting conservative content as it launches its “fake news” initiative.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which is helping Facebook determine whether certain news stories are “disputed,” recently partnered with the State Department to host a training workshop for reporters.
The Tunisian public opinion has been in turmoil after an Israeli TV reporter visited the country in a bid to trace the origins of Muhamad Alzawari, Hamas’ chief drone engineer who was assassinated over the weekend.
Anti-Christmas grinches have upped the ante in the annual war on Christmas, moving beyond opposition to Nativity scenes and Wise Men to denying the very existence of Jesus.
Before Facebook unveiled measures to monitor the spread of “fake news” on the platform, BuzzFeed editor Craig Silverman was working as an adjunct professor for the same media organization that created the fact-checking rules Facebook will use to flag and label fake news stories.
Clio Chang and Alex Shephard write in The New Republic about the organizational shake-up and shift in focus at the leftwing media watchdog Media Matters for America. The brainchild of its Clinton ally founder David Brock, Media Matters now seeks to reinvent itself in a post-Clinton world. Brock has recently stated that he hopes to transform his social media platform Shareblue into a “Breitbart of the left.” But Clinton’s electoral loss offers a unique challenge for Media Matters because, as Chang and Shephard report, “[t]he organization had long ceased to be a mere watchdog, having positioned itself at the center of a group of public relations and advocacy outfits whose mission was to help put Clinton in the White House.”
BROOKLYN, New York – The New Yorker is alerting illegal immigrants to “brace” for President-Elect Donald Trump’s administration, which has vowed to enforce existing federal immigration laws and crack-down on unlawful border crossings.
Fox News star anchor Megyn Kelly discussed her future at the network in a sprawling interview with the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple this week — but again declined to rule out a move to a new network as she said she has “great options” when her contract expires in the summer of 2017.
The BBC has been accused of disseminating fake news with a report which suggested that a police officer had used excessive force in making an arrest. The Police Federation have defended the officer’s actions.
Editor in Chief of National Geographic magazine Susan Goldberg celebrates transgenderism by putting a nine-year-old feminine boy on the January cover of the magazine.
Merriam-Webster named “surreal” its word of the year.
Concerning the mainstream media, political pollster and analyst Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday, “Everyone is allowed to keep failing if your message is right.”
Political pollster and analyst Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXm host Alex Marlow on Monday, “The media has forgotten that the election even happened. They are giving no ground on anything.”
A Ha’aretz writer is more concerned about anonymous white supremacists writing comments on websites than Iran being legitimized as a genocidal power.
Syrian refugee Aras Bacho has said that women are mostly to blame for the New Years’ Eve sex attacks across Germany last year.
The BBC, the most mainstream of mainstream media outlets, has been caught up in a “fake news” controversy after reporting that Christmas was set to be cheaper than ever – only to decide just three days later that costs had in
The news that the Weekly Standard has appointed Stephen Hayes editor-in-chief has caused some to wonder if former editor and consistent Trump critic Bill Kristol all but made himself toxic for the publication’s masthead.
This year the Left’s annual War on Christmas has taken a bizarre turn with a Washington Post op-ed claiming that the Virgin Mary’s purity is offensive to victims of rape.
Snopes, which will now have the power to declare what news is or is not legitimate on the world’s largest online platform, almost exclusively employs leftists.
With Facebook’s announcement that they plan to deploy fact checkers to monitor their pages and determine what news is real and what news is fake, Cathy Young at The Hill asks the important question: “Who will watch the watchmen?”
A fifth of Swedes have no confidence in the mainstream media, and half the country now gets their news primarily from alternative sources, a new study has found.
TEL AVIV – An Egyptian journalist wrote an op-ed claiming that Hitler only murdered between 100,000 – 600,000 Jews – and not six million – and that he was justified in doing so because Jews had seized all manner of control in Germany, spreading pornography and homosexuality as well as being responsible for the country’s economic collapse.
Barack Obama started his journey to the White House with onlookers fainting upon the sound of his voice. He ends it with a press conference swan song that witnessed a reporter swoon.
PolitiFact rated just over 15% of Donald Trump’s campaign claims as true, while marking 51% of Hillary Clinton’s as such, according to PolitiFact Executive Director Aaron Sharockman.
Alberto Ibarguen, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, one of PolitiFact’s largest contributors, donated $200,000 to support the 8th annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting in February 2015.
President Barack Obama angrily denounced “partisan” media outlets for making the United States more divided and dysfunctional and destroying the political process.
