Over the past several decades, US news media have shifted towards advocacy and emotional appeals, according to a RAND Corporation study. This is sowing discord in American society, award-winning journalist Chris Hedges tells RT. The study, released by RAND earlier this week, cautiously argues that between 1987 and 2017, news content has shifted from event- and context-based reporting to coverage that... 

Facebook is gearing up to battle the problem of “fake news” on social media with a new name-and-shame system involving independent fact checkers being trialed in Germany. The social media giant has employed the services of Correctiv, a nonprofit group involved in investigative journalism and news auditing, as an independent fact checker. According to Facebook, new updates to the social site for... 

Founder of “fact checking” website caught up in dirty legal dispute with wife. Snopes, the website Facebook chose to “fact check” stories to eliminate “fake news”, has been accused of defrauding the website to pay for prostitutes. The divorced couple has been going through an intense legal battle after the company’s founder was caught embezzling money. According to the Daily... 

Facebook announced on Thursday a Soros-funded “fact check” group will be used to determine which Facebook stories are “fake news.” George Soros is a billionaire funder of far left causes and groups like Black Lives Matter terrorists and Occupy Wall Street hoodlums. Breitbart.com reported: The organization partnered with Facebook to help determine whether a certain story is “disputed” is... 

Good News for America! Liberal media cranks are losing their grip in America! After years and years of lies a new poll finds just 29% of American voters trust liberal media fact-checkers. Americans today understand the media and Democrat Party have become one unit. There is no difference between a statement put out by the DNC and statement released by any number of news organizations. Americans have... 

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... 

A Chinese bestseller entitled The Currency War describes how Jews are planning to rule the world by manipulating the international financial system. The book is reportedly read in the highest government circles. If so, this does not bode well for the international financial system, which relies on well-informed Chinese to help it recover from the current crisis. Such conspiracy theories are not rare...