What’s New About Fake News?
Musing on why the level of crude propagandizing known as fake news has gotten worse.
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Why a Focus on “Fake News” and Facebook Misses the Internet’s Real Problems – and Solutions
MP’s new ‘fake news’ report largely ignores other platforms like Google and YouTube, and surveillance capitalism itself – and risks sending regulation in the wrong direction.
Read more...Los Angeles Times Barks Up the Wrong Tree With CalPERS/American Media Inc. (National Enquirer) Story
The Los Angeles Times tells the story of a CalPERS investment misfire to maximize the outrage factor, and does taxpayers a huge disservice by missing who the real perps were (mind you, not to say that CalPERS isn’t too easy a mark….)
Read more...Many Countries at UN Oppose Trump Interference in Venezuela
The US plans for Venezuela don’t have the degree of foreign support that the press would have you believe.
Read more...Brexit Is Good News for Those in the Business of War
Arms merchants are lining up deals in anticipation of Brexit.
Read more...Jonathan Tepper’s The Myth of Capitalism: “Fucking Unreadable”
Author Jonathan Tepper has sent us multiple reader assisted suicide notes, and we are only too happy to oblige.
Read more...MMT’s Opening
Another go at clearing up press and pundit misrepresentations of MMT.
Read more...New Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling In American Politics
The Orwellianly-named Integrity Initiative is bringing international disinformation campaign, road tested in Europe. to the US, in the form of a “political smear unit.”
Read more...Brexit: Circling the Drain
The latest chapter in the Brexit shaggy dog story.
Read more...Media’s Russia Obsession Obscures How Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Benefits Turkey Most
A dose of sanity from Patrick Cockburn on Syria.
Read more...The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (I)
Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...Writers Silenced by Surveillance: Self-Censorship in the Age of Big Data
“We asked Scottish writers how online surveillance has impacted on their work. The answers we got were shocking.”
Read more...Is the Internet to Blame for the Rise of Authoritarianism?
Three perspectives on whether the internet is damaging democracy.
Read more...George Herbert Walker Bush and the Myth of the ‘Good’ Gulf War
Correcting revisionist history about Bush the Senior and the first Gulf War.
Read more...CalPERS PR Messaging on Private Equity Backfiring as Lack of Justification, Flailing About, Become Obvious
CalPERS looks not just reckless but also foolish as it keeps rejiggering a dubious private equity scheme that it presented as ready to go months ago.
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