Source: The Independent The attempt to rush through the ban is said to be a result of the blitzkrieg approach of Bannon, who exhorts that it is vital to make full use the momentum of Trump’s landmark victory before the loathed ‘establishment’ can organise itself to sabotage the revolution By Kim […]
Roy Greenslade And why it’s also wrong to refer to ‘Muslims’ as if they are a single entity Tuesday 24 November 2015 There is an insistent call for Muslims to condemn Isis. (I’ll come back to that groupist description in a moment). The Sun’s leading article a week ago (17 […]
Homepage : Comment : The media is ignoring leaked US-government documents on Syria Ian Sinclair Former Secretary of State John Kerry speaking about US policy in Iraq and Syria [Getty] Date of publication: 6 February, 2017 Comment: Disclosures reported by the media about US policy in Syria were quickly forgotten, […]
FACT CHECK By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi FEB 2, 2017 Some campaigners claim that Islamist extremists could obtain the Swiss passport under a proposed facilitated naturalisation procedure, as this poster from the youth wing of the Swiss People’s Party in canton Schwyz shows. (jsvp-sz.ch) Misinformation has been a recurring feature […]
Reuters International FEB 1, 2017 – JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council is to issue an edict, or fatwa, declaring the spreading of fake news un-Islamic, the organisation’s chairman said on Wednesday. Indonesia has one of the world’s highest number of Facebook and Twitter users, and the biggest […]
Decision comes days after Donald Trump’s inauguration and a year after prosecution of German comic who wrote crude poem about Turkish President By Katie Forster @katieforster Germany has decided to abolish a law which defends the honor of foreign leaders. International heads of state will no longer be able to ask the […]
No, I am not introducing a new ‘App’ or ‘Matching Service’ for potential ‘recruitment’ into polygamous unions via social media. What I am referring to is the problem of polygamous husbands using the social media or just spending some time on the Desktop Computer. All of us, whether married or […]
Do busy roads really give you dementia? And what about the connection between bacon and bowel cancer? Ben Chu @Benchu_ What makes a good health scare? Three essential ingredients. First, there has to be something mundane that lots of ordinary people do, and preferably enjoy doing. Second, there has to be […]
ALEXANDER SEGERT The advertising guru harnessing Europe’s immigration fears By Guy Chazan JAN 3, 2017 – A controversial poster from the Swiss People’s Party’s successful anti-minaret campaign in 2009 (Keystone) Swarms of black minarets bristle like missiles over a Swiss flag, next to a woman in a black burka. Black […]
Pakistan by Dawood Rehman | Published on January 5, 2017 🔗 CALGARY – Police in Canada are investigating allegations of hate speech by a local imam who called a publisher and its administration ‘devil’ and ‘kaafir’. Professor Syed Badiuddin Soharwardy, an imam at a mosque, has been under investigation by […]
VERIFICATION By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi DEC 21, 2016 Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California: the tech giant has announced plans to limit the spread of fake news, but whether it’ll succeed remains to be seen. (Keystone) Swiss and European researchers are working on algorithms to detect misinformation circulating […]
On arrival in his cell, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy discovered that he was imprisoned with men whom he had interviewed only a few months earlier as members of the Morsi government Robert Fisk @indyvoice To interview a jihadi is one thing, to live among jihadis quite another. To share their prison […]
BY MARK STEELE, THE INDEPENDENT You expect lies, but usually they’re found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets […]
There was a period in 2011 and 2012 when there were genuinely independent opposition activists operating inside Syria, but as the jihadis took over these brave people were forced to flee abroad, fell silent or were dead Patrick Cockburn @indyworld It has just become more dangerous to be a foreign […]
By Marcela Aguila Rubín NOV 30, 2016 -www.swissinfo.ch Thousands of people march for justice in Guadalajara, Mexico, in September 2015. They are holding pictures of 43 missing students who were kidnapped by police a year earlier (Reuters) Secret mass graves in Mexico, daily bombings and a mounting death toll in […]
THE INDUSTRY November 23, 20163:31 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered LAURA SYDELL FacebookTwitterInstagram “The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right.” Fanatic Studio/Getty Images A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared […]
The US president denounced the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected ‘If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for’: Barack Obama on fake […]
by Roisin O’Connor in newsUPVOTE ‘Grab ’em by the pussy’ should have been the line that ended Donald Trump’s bid for US presidency. But it didn’t: the Republican who said Mexicans were rapists; threatened to deport all undocumented immigrants but bring the “good” ones back legally; build a giant wall; […]
Photo essay A NEUTRAL EYE ON THE US ELECTIONS Cédric von Niederhäusern “I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – […]
Source: Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East Freedom of the press has been one of the chief casualties of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule. He has confiscated newspapers, sued their […]