Tag: mainstream media
‘Not surprised, but disgusted’: Fox avoids trial by settling with Dominion...
Critics said the financial agreement robbed the public of a trial that would have exposed the news network's lies about fraud during the 2020 election and its behind-the-scenes operations.
Projected collapse of crucial Antarctic current met with media silence
Science doesn’t guide U.S. corporate media, which were virtually silent on the landmark study.
How major southeast utilities paid local media for favorable coverage
This is an example of how big money can interact with the decline in local journalism to spread false or misleading information, including about the climate crisis and appropriate solutions.
Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad on Ukraine, why US must negotiate...
When it comes to continuing the war rather than negotiating a peace settlement, “the United States and Britain are pretty isolated on this.”
Dinner versus the truth: The problem with Facebook’s content warnings
The decision to prioritize our own comfort and convenience by looking away might feel easier, but it comes at a terrible cost.
Accurate science reporting influences Americans’ climate change beliefs only briefly, study...
“What we found suggests that people need to hear the same accurate messages about climate change again and again. If they only hear it once, it recedes very quickly.”
Media ignore criticism of DHS’s new ‘disinformation’ board—unless it’s from the...
The board’s stated mission would be to address “disinformation spread by foreign states such as Russia, China and Iran,” as well as “transnational criminal organizations and human-smuggling organizations.”
Western media accuse China of wanting to do what US does...
A new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves US imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists.
Western media fall in lockstep for Neo-Nazi publicity stunt in Ukraine
In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as U.S. support for the Maidan coup in 2014.
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Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach
Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.
You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is…
“At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”
ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along
This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.
The Trump Inversion Scam makes the world great again – except for America and abused...
Trumpism in a nutshell: batter average citizens to buttress concentrated crony capitalist power. DOGE will end up not as positive, creative destruction, simply self-destructive destruction.
UK carbon emissions reach lowest level since 1872
Coal use plummets to levels not seen since the 1600s.