British broadcaster Channel 4 has been hit with hundreds of complaints over its Christmas Day message starring a ‘deepfake’ Queen, who danced on a table and joked about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ditching the royal family. Ofcom said it had received at least 214 complaints over the broadcast of the digitally-altered monarch, which Channel 4 described as intended to provide a “stark warning”... 

Facebook’s “fact-checking” partner Lead Stories is funded in part by a Chinese company called ByteDance LLC, which owns TikTok and has been accused of censorship on behalf of the country’s communist government. Lead Stories was brought in to work with Facebook in February of 2019, “using its own technology, called ‘Trendolizer,’ to detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news... 

The Russian president is the world’s sickest leader, if you believe reports in Western media, that is. Popular US and UK outlets are now claiming Vladimir Putin has Parkinson’s, underwent secret surgery and is battling cancer. While many have found 2020 to be a challenging year, for notorious Moscow conspiracy theorist Valery Solovey, it has been his best yet. He has managed to send Western news... 

Twitter has made users jump through an additional hoop before they retweet a message on their platform, as part of a series of temporary measures purportedly designed to fight disinformation ahead of the US election. In a blog post, the company announced that people who want to retweet a message will be directed to the ‘quote tweet’ composer, where they’ll be encouraged to add a comment before... 

Russian state news agency TASS cited an anonymous source familiar with the situation as saying that the fines were handed out for “articles about the coronavirus infection.” In mid-March, Solovei alleged in an interview to Echo Moskvy that the government was lying when it said no one had died in the country from the coronavirus and at least 1,600 people might have died since mid-January. Russian... 

The European Union is working to undermine national efforts to secure national borders, according to Hungary’s top government spokesman. “Brussels is preparing to challenge the immigration rules of the Hungarian constitution,” Secretary of State for International Communication Zoltán Kovács told Magyar Hírlap. “They want to force us to change the provisions of our constitution that... 

The Department of State previously announced it would designate five media outlets as “foreign missions” and brand their employees as agents of the Chinese government. The list includes the Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily Distribution Corporation, and Hai Tian Development USA. Beijing has criticised Washington for listing Chinese... 

So we have everybody left and right being paranoid about “muh fake news”. “Big tech” such as Google, Facebook, Twitter which are actually not “tech” at all by the definition of the word technology, but just some random websites on the internet being overly-used by the sheep are engaged in massive censorship. For all those so-called “big tech” websites... 

Several scumbags have accused our previous breaking story about the Romanian coronavirus vaccine of being fake news and a hoax. Google.com our best friend ever and the world’s biggest advocate for free speech, has even completely deleted our link from showing up in their search results. Some whatever website called Hoax Alert Lead Stories even tried to debunk our story but fails miserably as... 

In June, whistleblower Zach Vorhies dumped internal Google documents exposing the company’s shady practices and political agenda. Rather than investigate, US lawmakers are offering Big Tech political cover and a legislative decoy. Internal documents and secret recordings continue to make abundantly clear what many already knew and others strongly suspected about Google and other digital goliaths;... 

Facebook’s plan to hook ad-cash-deprived mainstream outlets on licensing payouts seems to be an attempt to hijack narrative control en route to total domination of the infosphere – the ultimate safe space, Zuckerberg-style. More than two thirds of American adults get their news from social media at the same time that more than half expect that news to be “largely inaccurate.” Perhaps... 

The Washington Post has warned journalists to act responsibly when handling independent sources, offering them a quick crash course in Journalism 101 to avoid being caught publishing fake news that could swing the 2020 elections. “Don’t publish weaponized gossip. Verify relentlessly. Nail down, and emphasize, the source of the hack and its motivation. And be transparent with news consumers,”... 

Any politician “deviating from the Liberal mainstream” could become the target of attacks by “globally operating liberal fake news factories,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told public Kossuth Radio on Sunday. Szijjarto mentioned US President Donald Trump for example, whose remarks on NATO the media “misinterpreted” and who was accused of benefiting from Russia’s alleged manipulating... 

After 22 months and $35 million, Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation has discovered what everyone knew all along: that the claims of a “Trump-Russia” collusion to influence the 2016 US Presidential election was nothing but a Democratic Party sore loser lie, and that the whole issue was a fake news construct orchestrated by the controlled media. Even though Mueller’s conclusion was... 

Though Western media outlets are whining about these new laws in Russia and complaining about how authoritarian they are, the reality is most Western governments’ laws are even worse Russian officials are citing authoritarian censorship laws passed by European governments as a justification for passing similar laws restricting free speech in Russia. From The Moscow Times: Russian President Vladimir...