Politico reported, John McCain and Lindsey Graham’s bipartisan push to create a special committee to investigate Russia’s election-season hacking and other cybersecurity threats received a potential boost Monday [the 19th] as a […]
The Russian Troll Factory
Back in July, The New Yorker’s Adrian Chen began publishing articles based on six months of research he did on the Russian propaganda operation known as the Internet Research Agency. He writes, The agency […]
Fake News Story Sets Off Israel-Pakistan Twitter Feud
The Associated Press reported today that, JERUSALEM — A fake news story has touched off a tense Twitter confrontation between nuclear power Pakistan and Israel, widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal […]
The Mounting Evidence of a Conspiracy to Influence the Election
Why hasn’t Rudy Giuliani received an appointment from Trump to join his administration? Attorney and Assistant Professor Seth Abramson provides a compelling argument in a recent essay. During the campaign Giuliani was […]
Times Investigation Provides Evidence of Ties Between Russia and Trump Campaign
The detailed investigation of Russia’s effort to influence the U. S. election published December 13th by the New York Times provides evidence that independently supports an earlier investigation by Yahoo News in September […]
Fascism for the Information Age
On September 30th, in 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which virtually handed over Czechoslovakia to Germany in the […]
Remember Hanoi Jane? Meet Putin’s Page
Jane Fonda famously visited North Vietnamese soldiers during the Viet Nam War. She was reported to have called returning POW’s “liars and hypocrites.” Read the transcript of her propaganda radio broadcast delivered in Hanoi, […]
Fake News and the Right: the Eastern Wind
On November 23, NPR published an article titled, “We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator In the Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned.” One of the things they learned is described below. During the […]
Trump said Russian hacking is “big problem” in 2014
CNN reported Monday, December 19th, that on Fox & Friends in 2014, Donald Trump was asked to comment on an interview given by James Comey. Trump said in his reply that Russian hacking […]