Fake News Archives

9Oct

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Media

Orson Welles, Broadcasts and Fake News

NOVANEWS By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research Orson Welles’ spectral return to the screen, ingeniously in posthumous mode, should have come as a comfort to the magicians skilled in the arts of trickery. Beyond the grave, he seems to be exerting a continuing influence, with his film, The Other Side of the Wind making its debut after 48 torrid years at the Telluride Film Festival. His delight for illusion and the magical manipulations of the camera would not have been out of place in the anxiety filled age mistakenly called the “post-truth” era. Starting momentously grand and at summit greatness in Citizen Kane, and heading low into financial difficulty and stuttering projects, his genius was as prodigious as his luck was absent. His aptitude in mastering the brutish nature of...

8Apr

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Media, MULTIMEDIA

Fake News: A “Weapon of Choice” for a Handful of Countries

NOVANEWS By Grete Mautner It goes without saying that recently ‘fake news’ has become one of the most trending search phrases on the net. Moreover, representatives of Collins English Dictionary have gone as far as to name it official Word of the Year for 2017, and there’s a very good reasons for this term to enjoy such popularity. For instance, it was used by American President Donald Trump, who accused leading Western media sources of spreading deceitful reports by describing them as ‘fake news’. The uncontested prevalence of such news could be observed during all the major political campaigns of recent years: presidential election in the US and France, parliamentary elections in Germany, Brexit and Catalan referendums… Perhaps there is no country in this world that escaped fa...

4Apr

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Media, Syria, USA

CNN Has Child Read Off A Script To Push For War In Syria To Oust Assad

NOVANEWS By Chris Menahan | InformationLiberation CNN is calling it a “7-year-old Syrian girl’s heartbreaking plea” to stop the war in Syria, in reality it’s a fake news hoax to get the Trump administration to overthrow Assad and turn on Russia. The top story on CNN’s front page today is a disgusting Iraq-has-WMDs-style fake news story to con America into another war. Under the title, “7-year-old Syrian girl’s heartbreaking plea: ‘Why can’t you stop the war?’,” CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota is seen interviewing a 7-year-old Syrian girl named Bana Alabed. Camerota asks her: “Bana, do you [a 7-year-old girl] blame President Assad for this [chemical attack]?” Bana responds, “Yes.” “What is your message to President Assad?” Camerota asks the 7-year-old. “I am very sad,” Bana says, lookin...

3Apr

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Media

Why Fake News Spreads: A Neurological Explanation

NOVANEWS BY PATRICK TUCKER The logical part of your brain really, really likes listening to the social part, which just wants to fit in. If efforts by foreign powers to influence American society via disinformation — like the “fake news” that spread during last year’s presidential election — are rising as a national-security concern, then we need to know why such antics work. How does an adversarial government go about persuading an entire population that something is true, or that one truth is more important or relevant than another? Recent research into the roots of persuasion in the brain yields some important clues about how people are convinced to propagate news that is not true or poorly sourced. Bottom line: fake news appeals directly to the portions of the brain associated w...

27Feb

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Media, USA

Who is Behind “Fake News”? Mainstream Media Use Fake Videos and Images

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky First published on November 24, 2016 The mainstream corporate media is desperate. They want to suppress independent and alternative online media, which it categorizes as “fake news”. Readers on social media are warned not to go onto certain sites. The intent of this initiative is to smear honest reporting and Truth in Media. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down. They are the unspoken architects of “Fake News”. One area of routine distortion is the use of fake videos and images by the mainstream media. Four Notorious Cases of Media Distortion These are four examples and there are many more. The manipulation of videos and images is routine...

24Feb

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Syria, United Kingdom

BBC Fake News Reality Check

NOVANEWS by BRIAN GERRISH Friday 13th January 2017 was the day we learned of the BBC's 'Reality Check', described by the Guardian as a team to 'debunk fake news'. If you feel that the BBC debunking fake news might be an oxymoron, then we would agree with you, and the reasons are not difficult to identify. The BBC stated that their Reality Check team: ... will focus on content that is clearly fabricated and attempting to mislead the public into thinking it has been produced by a reputable news organisation. The immediate implication here is that the BBC considers that as a £3.65 billion major news broadcaster, it is beyond reproach in reporting facts and truth, and is therefore happy to set itself up to monitor and police other news sources for the accuracy of their content. BBC claim...

11Feb

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Europe, Media, Middle East, USA

Mainstream Media: All the Fake News That’s Fit to Print

NOVANEWS 21WIRE's #FakeNewsWeek Awareness Campaign By SARTRE 21st Century Wire In response to the establishment media’s contrived ‘fake news’ crisis designed to marginalise independent and alternative media sources of news and analysis, 21WIRE is running its own #FakeNewsWeek awareness campaign, where each day our editorial team at 21st Century Wire will feature media critiques and analysis of mainstream corporate media coverage of current events – exposing the government and the mainstream media as the real purveyors of ‘fake news’ throughout modern history… Understanding the complex relationships that make up human endeavors permeates every aspect of society and politics. The ability to be informed about events is a basic motivation to search out news about what is exactly...

3Jan

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USA

WPost’s New ‘Fake News’ on Russian ‘Hack’g

NOVANEWS Exclusive: The Washington Post’s latest folly – falsely reporting a Russian “hack” into Vermont’s electric grid – reflects the paper’s steep decline from the days of Watergate, reports ex-British intelligence officer Annie Machon. By Annie Machon The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been hacked – cue a national American trauma, allegations of dirty tricks, fears that democracy has been subverted, all leading to what the next U.S. president would call “our long national nightmare.” The Washington Post building in downtown Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Washington Post) But, no, I am not talking about the current Russo-phobic hysteria currently engulfing the mainstream U.S. media, replete with claims about “fake news,” expelled Russian diplomats, and a lack of skept...

31Dec

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USA

Did Big Media Run Fake Headlines on the Deutsche Bank “Settlement” ?

NOVANEWS By Pam Martens and Russ Martens Typically, it takes two to settle bank fraud charges – the bank committing the fraud and the law enforcement agency bringing the charges. But in the case of the announcement late last Thursday evening that Deutsche Bank and the U.S. Justice Department had reached an agreement to settle claims against the bank for allegedly swindling investors in the sale of toxic residential mortgage backed securities, all that could be heard was the sound of one hand clapping in a press release issued by the defendant, Deutsche Bank. Nowhere to be found was a statement of particulars on what the bank was admitting to or a man behind a podium bearing the seal of the U.S. Justice Department in a press briefing room, as typically occurs in a real settlement. The lac...

24Dec

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Syria

“Fake news” and real fake news

NOVANEWS By Eli Stephens All of a sudden, “fake news” has become the topic du jour in the media. And while the fake news that The Onion has been publishing for years is always good for a laugh, other fake news can have actual consequences. This week a deluded individual, having read a reportedly widely-circulated story that Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief were running a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C. (!), went to the restaurant and opened fire with a rifle. Fortunately no one was hurt. But “fake news” had become news long before this incident, primarily as the latest excuse for why Hillary Clinton lost the election, and, as we’ll discuss below, the latest way to implicate Russia in her loss. Figures were circulated about how such so-called fake n...