Source: Time By SIMON SHUSTER and SANDRA IFRAIMOVA February 21, 2018 In the fall of 2015, soon after he moved to St. Petersburg from his hometown in Siberia, Vitaly Bespalov, an aspiring journalist, […]
Source: CNBC BY Kellie Ell | @KellieAutumnEll The newspaper printing presses may have another decade of life in them, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson told CNBC on Monday. “I believe at least 10 […]
Source: The New York Times By SUHASINI RAJ and KAI SCHULTZ Rahul Upadhyay, who was rumored to have been killed in clashes between Hindus and Muslims in India last month, is very much […]
Nidhal Guessoum | Published — Monday 29 January 2018 There’s a good chance your children, whatever age they may be, are digital addicts. We do not have statistics for the […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is denouncing “fake news” as evil and is urging journalists to make it their mission to search for […]
Source; BBC News BY Dave Lee North America technology reporter Facebook has announced it will prioritise news sources deemed to be more trustworthy on its News Feed. The firm said the social […]
Dr. Naif Alhadari | Published — Sunday 21 January 2018 How Western media covers Arab issues and events in the Islamic world, and their bias in any item that deals with the region’s politics or personalities, has become a phenomenon that is quite noticeable, especially when it has to do […]
Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is aided more than stifled by technology. By Janna Anderson […]
Rodolfo C. Estimo Jr. | Published — Sunday 22 October 2017 RIYADH: The OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) will hold its 4th international seminar on “The Role of […]
AFP | Published — Wednesday 18 October 2017 HEBRON, Palestinian Territories: Israeli forces raided Palestinian media offices across the occupied West Bank overnight in what a military spokeswoman on Wednesday called a “large-scale operation” against incitement. The raids on eight companies came hours after the Israeli government declared that […]
Oct 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Kelly Born Concern about the proliferation of disinformation, misinformation and propaganda has reached the point where many governments are proposing new legislation. But the solutions on offer reflect an inadequate understanding of the problem — and could have negative unintended consequences. This past June, […]
As an Iraqi living in London, the discrepancy in reaction is hard for me to stomach Amrou Al-Kadhi @glamrou Last Friday, news outlets went on overdrive surrounding the explosion at Parsons Green station. Our media has since been saturated with coverage on it; front pages have featured blurry images of […]
Source: BBC News India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Australia over an advert depicting the Hindu god Ganesha enjoying lamb. The TV advert, by a meat industry lobby group, […]
Photo: kagemusha/Depositphotos Hostility and discrimination towards Muslim people in Switzerland is on the rise, the Federal Commission against Racism (FCR) said on Monday during a conference at the University of Fribourg. The conference, organized by Fribourg University, religion researchers at the University of Lucerne and the Swiss Centre for Islam […]
Source: BBC News By Georgina Rannard A man has reacted with surprise to seeing his photograph used in a fake story spread on social media that an Imam kept a […]
A look at the rituals Muslims perform during the annual pilgrimage. Al Jazeera Staff The Muslims pilgrimage is made up of a series of steps that take place in several locations around Mecca [Ahmed Masood/Reuters] Millions of Muslims from around the world gather annually in Mecca in anticipation ofHajj – the Muslim […]
AUGUST 17, 2017 Jean-Luc Addor is a parliamentarian from the rightwing Swiss People’s Party and based in canton Valais (Keystone) A court has found a Swiss politician guilty of racial discrimination for comments made on social media following a fatal shooting at a St Gallen mosque in north-eastern Switzerland […]
Exclusive: The letter to paper’s editor – signed by 107 MPs – was organised by the Labour MP Naz Shah and includes prominent politicians, including former Cabinet ministers Baroness Warsi and Anna Soubry Ashley Cowburn Political Correspondent @ashcowburn More than 100 cross-party politicians have signed an open letter demanding action over […]
Just as the Nazis did with the Jews, there is suggestion that Muslim men are preying on white children and that migrants are carrying and spreading diseases and swindling their way through life Sean O’Grady @_seanogrady Does Britain have a “Muslim Problem”? Trevor Kavanagh, who is a Sun journalist, plainly thinks so. […]
Aug 10,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The resignation of veteran war crimes investigator Carla Del Ponte from the UN’s Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria is a serious setback for efforts […]