Former US President Barack Obama has called for independent media to be totally abolished before the 2024 presidential election. Speaking at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit last week, Obama called for a total worldwide ban on content he deems to be “disinformation,” “hate,” or a “conspiracy theory.” In other words, everything not approved by the corporate mainstream media. Reclaimthenet.org... 

Google excluded major conservative and alt-media outlets from its search results for hours, hiding hits for sites like Breitbart and RedState even in searches for the outlets’ names – only to mysteriously revert to normal later. Conservative sites were in a panic Tuesday morning, reporting they seemed to have been blacklisted from Google. Articles and pages published by PJ Media, Daily... 

Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European writers critical of US foreign policy. The bureau’s justification for the removal was dubious, and it sets a troubling precedent for other critical outlets. The FBI has publicly justified its suppression of dissenting online views about US foreign policy if a media outlet can... 

A number of figures in the alt-media and extreme-left movement have surprised their audiences by rationalizing the Trump administration’s Israeli-directed push towards war with Iran. The consensus between high profile voices on the Zionist “far-right” and anarcho-neocon “far-left” in America and Britain reflect the party line in Israel, where even Amir Peretz of the ostensibly... 

“Newsguard attempts to set itself outside of the other allegedly “unbiased” fact checkers like Snopes and Politifact by setting out to monetarily cripple independent media sites by having their ads pulled” A new level of “fact checking” and “fake news” counter attacks are coming. This time, however, it won’t just be on Facebook or Twitter or Google, it will be internet and... 

The diverse alternative-media landscape has created an ecosystem where the most extreme ideas can flourish and break into the mainstream. The white nationalist Richard Spencer is partnering with two Swedish outfits to create a company they hope will become a media giant and keep race at the center of the new right wing. It is envisioned, one co-creator said, as a “more ideological Breitbart.”... 

In an unprecedented move, Donald Trump’s incoming White House Press Secretary revealed Sunday that members of the alternative media, and even prominent bloggers may be allowed to join the White House Press Corps, and take part in press conferences in Washington. In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Sean Spicer, said that owing to “off the chart” interest in the Trump administration, the president-elect... 

A recent survey conducted by Harvard University showed that younger Americans do not trust the media. The survey, Institute of Politics poll, was conducted among 3,000 young people aged between 18-29. Only 12 percent of them said they trust local media. Eighty-eight percent of the polled said that they “sometimes” or “never” trust the media. Just 2 percent said they trusted... 

Wants To Cross Check Websites Against Debunking Sites Such As Snopes.com Search Engine giant Google, the major driver of traffic to the majority of media portals is moving to change the way it ranks websites, declaring that it intends to use known partisan debunking outlets to determine the “truthfulness” of content. Currently, Google rankings are determined by the number of incoming links to... 

Glenn Greenwald has posted a story showing how the NSA and government agents work to “manipulate, deceive, and destroy” the reputations of journalists. “Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about ‘dirty trick’ tactics used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group),” Greenwald wrote on Wednesday. GCHQ... 

The establishment’s iron-fisted grip on media and information dissemination was irrevocably transformed when Matt Drudge launched his website in 1995. Suddenly Americans and the world at large were no longer dependent on a skewered and politically-driven corporate media with its distorted establishment spin and agenda. Alex Jones breaks down how this transformation occurred and how it resulted... 

Obama and Hillary Clinton operative David Brock told CNN his organization, Media Matters for America (MMFA), uses George Soros money to influence the corporate media and work directly with establishment journalists. The New York Times has called Brock a “prominent Democratic political operative.” MMFA is deeply embedded within the Democrat establishment. Former Bill Clinton Chief of Staff, John... 

Jay Rockefeller is calling for stricter internet controls, including FCC regulation under the guise of protecting children from “cyber bullies”. In a pathetic attempt to push regulation onto the internet and the alternative media, Jay Rockefeller has been hosting events and political discussions to promote FCC regulation of the internet. As many have been predicting he is using “the children”...