German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year’s speech at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 30, 2016. REUTERS/Markus Schreiber/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in […]
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 […]
Source: Aljazeera by Belen Fernandez @MariaBelen_Fdez Belen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, published by Verso. She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine. The […]
Source: BBC By Georgina Kenyon This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2016” collection. Discover more of our picks. In 1979, a secret memo from the tobacco industry […]
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 […]
Source: Pew Research Center 23% say they have shared a made-up news story – either knowingly or not BY MICHAEL BARTHEL, AMY MITCHELL AND JESSE HOLCOMB In the wake of […]
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 […]
The family of Nahed Hattar want an idependent investigation into his death, after the journalist was killed on the steps of the courthouse where he was due to stand trial for ‘inciting Islam’. They were charges Mr Hattar rejected Robert Fisk Amman @indyvoices The murder of Nahed Hattar – journalist, Christian, […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Cole Delbyck Entertainment Writer, The Huffington Post Here’s something we can hopefully all agree on: we’ve seen enough Muslim terrorists on TV. Whether it’s reinforcing the threat-next-door […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly With just over two days of voting remaining, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi maintains his lead in TIME’s Person of the Year Reader’s Poll, earning 18% of all “yes” votes as of Friday. Those who come closest to Modi’s lead are U.S. President Barack Obama, President-elect […]
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 […]
Source: Cnet.com by Carrie Mihalcik All that fake news you saw during the election may have been part of a “sophisticated” Russian propaganda campaign. The abundance of fake news in the lead up to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month has become a hot button issue, entangling tech giants […]
Source: The Verge By Amar Toor Angela Merkel this week warned that fake news and bots may influence Germany’s national elections next year, days after she announced plans to seek a fourth term as the country’s chancellor. In a speech to parliament on Wednesday, Merkel said that fake news and […]
theguardian — Ginella Massa filled in on Toronto’s CityNews 11pm broadcast and created a buzz after the broadcast ended Ginella Massa, a Toronto TV reporter believed to be Canada’s first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf. Photograph A Toronto television journalist is believed to be Canada’s first anchor to […]
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 […]
Source: Time By Melissa Locker Bart Simpson made his feelings clear during the show’s opening credits The prognosticators who write for The Simpsons have proven themselves to be uncannily accurate about […]
Source: BBC By David SillitoMedia correspondent Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionTrump’s triumph confounded pollsters, pundits and the mainstream media What part did the media, both mainstream and alternative, play in Donald Trump’s election success? On 30 September 2016, the San Diego Union Tribune made history. For the first time in its 148-year […]
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 – […]